Here is what Mizzus K has come up with so far. Stunning! (March 6th PODs)
Sparkly. Pattern. Texture. Shimmer. Ribbon. Dragonflies. Pink. What more could a girl ask for?
Notice he-man stripes and plenty of brown. Manly, no? No? Well, JD isn’t complainin’. Just wants something “golf ” or some other representation of himself added to it somehow. Thinks it represents the bride more than the groom. D’ya think? Tee hee.
Just. Love. It. So far.
JD – again, do not look at this posting if you happen to be reading my blog! Wedding dress photos below!!!!
Decided to search out my dress on the innernet so went to the designer’s site to check it out. I wanted to see different views of it, also what it would look like, properly fitted, on a model.
Beautiful! I’m even starting to kinda like the goofy flower on the hip. Thought I think I may end up having it removed. Mizz J suggested wearing it in my hair instead. Could work.
Here’s a close up look at the bodice of the dress. How lovely! It’s hard to see from this photo, but trust me when I tell you there is random sparkly beading all over the top half of the dress. Just wonderful. Now for the back view:
Eeek!!!! What? Where did all this nakedness come from? When I tried on the dress, the consultant tutted tutted that the modesty panel was missing from the sample dress….remarking that sometimes this happens. Well, HELLO….there is no flippin’ modesty panel with this dress!!!!!
Well, this will never do. Here I was so worried about excess front cleavage and I shoulda been paying attention to the back cleavage! Sure hope the seamstress at the shop can concoct something for me. Otherwise I will have to come up with something myself, and it might not be pretty, but at least I’ll be covered.
First up, what you are looking at is the remains of a batch of Choco-cado pudding (Mar 2 POD). JD and I love this stuff – but it is extremely filling because of its richness. I add even more cocoa powder (3 tbsp) for more chocolatey goodness! A lighter but still awesome modification I made was Choco-nana pudding, where I substitute 2 ripe bananas for the medium avocado. Just as tasty, not as filling. Cut back on agave nectar somewhat when you use bananas, unless you like things really sweet. 
March 3 POD – still on a high from the Olympics and the closing ceremony, I decided I HAD to have Michael Buble’s latest. I have some of his other albums, or at least I thought I did (Mizz J, I am looking at you, you Michael Buble lovin’ CD snitcher!). While I was browsing the CD racks I also decided I had to have the above dance compilation CD. Both CD’s could have a place at our wedding. The first, definitely for ambiant music…the second in case people actually do want to dance. Although the 3rd track….Hotel Room Service by Pitbull….I dunno….
Here is a sampling of the cleaner lyrics: “two, two, two, I gonna undress you; three, three, three, you gonna undress me; four, four, four, we gonna freak some more.” Mr. P-Bull also discusses a whole lotta other stuff in his song, most of which I don’t understand and sounds kinda innocent but I am sure it is some kinda slang for raunchy stuff, given the general…ahem….theme. I don’t see our guests particularly enjoying this number. Just saying.
March 4 POD – JD and I went with my matron of honour and her hubbie to see David Francey in concert. A real troubadour and a great story-teller. A lovely evening with this particular singer-songwriter and Craig Werth and Jeff Sommers, who accompanied him on various instruments.
March 5 POD – I had to take a pic of this plant. Mistah K (my son) gifted me with this lovely for my birthday and I have to say it is doing fantastic in my office. It really likes it there (along with my orchids, only one of which is really thriving). The plant has easily doubled in size since July and the number of “blooms” (I don’t think anthuriums really have flowers, but whatever you call them, they’re beautiful)….well, it just keeps shooting out more and more.
Despite the continued snow dumping by Ma Nature this weekend, I did manage to get a fair bit of stuff done towards the nuptials.
I met with Gillian, who kindly trudged through knee-deep snow with me so I could see the Ellis Chapel. 
Still as beautiful inside as I remembered it to be. And now with electricity! Woohoo! (Not sure if we’ll even use it, but woohoo anyways!!!)
Afterwards I met with Mizzus K for a crazy good dark cherry mocha at Starbucks, and she graciously informed me that she would like to design and create our invitations as her wedding gift to us. Well, of course I jumped at that one!
So off to Michael’s we decided to go, for inspiration and ideas on colour scheme etc. But first I asked her if she wouldn’t mind accompanying me to Klara Johnson’s shop to look at wedding cakes. Her cakes are expensive, but truly works of art. I fell in love with a display cake decorated with orchids made of sugar paste. So beautiful…(Now I need to get JD over there to look at it, and agree the extra expense will be worth it!)
Mizzus K and I spent HOURS at Michael’s, pouring over papers and looking at the invitation kits for ideas. Almost immediately I found a something…it’s not a stamp…but not sure what it’s called. Anyways, it cuts out a silhouette of a dragonfly when applied to paper. This was our starting point. Now for the papers – Mizzus K and I both were agreed on looking for a variety of different textures and patterns that complemented each other. After what seemed like forever, we came to find 3-4 beautiful papers that had everything I was looking for: rich colours, great patterns, shimmer and shine, that worked together beautifully. After that, finding coordinating ribbon was a snap. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with!
As a bonus, I picked up a lovely cake topper – a silver letter S, studded with diamond-like stones, for JD’s last name, the one I will be assuming after the marriage. I can see it already, tucked behind that sugar orchid….
This is what Mizz Lucy and I woke up to on Feb 23rd – winter wonderland. Um, a little late, doncha think? I was hopin’ this would be winter’s (first and ) last hurrah, but we continue to get snow dumped on us as we head into March.
There was just so much good stuff on sale! What gives? Is it the recession? Or Wal-Mart Supercentres providing competition? No matter, it’s bargain-city right now, for those that have any extra cash.
When I arrived at the store it was fairly busy, but suddenly it seemed to just empty out. A store employee asked me if there was a storm brewing, is that why the store was devoid of customers? I said definitely, that it was nasty out. Someone else piped up that the women’s gold medal game was on (Congrats Canadian Womens Hockey Team on your Gold! Smoke ’em if you got ’em. Oh yeah, you did….Ha!), and also Survivor. (Is that show still going on?!?!? Haven’t they run out of deserted islands yet?). It was certainly a good night to get home and stay home, whatever the reason.
And now this morning, this:
I got up nice and early, planning to walk Mizz L as usual, and then have time to do an upper body workout. On the way back to the house, I laughed at the absurdity of hurrying inside to lift dumbells to the instructor on the DVD when I had a driveway full of snow I could be lifting instead! So I made things easier for Edward by clearing a path to the street. Shoulda brushed him off before I cleaned up the driveway though….
And now tonight I get to do it all over again ‘cos it’s snowing and snowing hard and heavy. However, things are looking up for next week. Temps in the pluses for most of it. Yay!
On a completely different subject: I’ve been tracking my weight loss for the past 3 weeks and I’m averaging 0.9 lbs lost per week. At this rate I will lose 26 pounds by the wedding date. Not too shabby! I developed a little Excel spreadsheet and even created a graph in it to help me track my progress towards this goal. I am delighted that I am seeing success with making just a couple of little changes to my lifestyle and being more mindful of everything I eat and how much I move.
Now to get back to snow shovelling. Wish me luck!
Yesterday was a bee-yoo-ti-ful day, and we took a moment to drive by the chapel we are going to book for the wedding. A tiny, lovely chapel in the country near the Village. The caretaker is going to be showing it to us on Saturday. My sis and her hubby had their nuptials there, about 14 or so years ago. Hey Sis – they have electricity in the building now – one whole outlet!
In contrast to yesterday’s great weather (sunny, +5°C), is this (not so) hot mess (Feb 22 POD):
Taken through the Venetian blinds in my work’s lunch room. Today is my other Sis’s Birthday. Hope the weather is better in your part of the province, Mizz C!
I already own a beautiful pair of pink leather sandals, by Franco Sarto. I’ve only worn them a couple of times and the heel height is nice and low so they are more comfortable than sky-high stilettos.
Well, enough blogging – time to get walking. Need to hit at least 10,000 steps today!
Feb 18th POD – Same DVD, this time the Upper Body Workout.
Feb 15th POD – Menu from Princess Cafe
