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Four months until the wedding

Posted by Laura on Wednesday June 9 2010 in Bridezilla | 6 comments

I get an email every month to remind me how long til we get hitched.

So with four months to go, here’s what I’m “supposed” to be focusing on

Reserve bridal suite for wedding night
Select gifts for each other
Select gifts for bridal party
Hire wedding vehicles for the bridal party, you will need to decide what sort of transport you need and where the two parties are getting ready

Instead, I really need to be focusing on

What we’re going to wear (because at this stage we’ll be nude)
Who our celebrant will be (we have his phone number, so that’s a start)
How we’re inviting people (because apparently Facebook won’t cut it for everyone)

What else should I be doing to plan Our Big Day?

XXXII

Posted by Laura on Sunday June 6 2010 in Laura's Life, Noice-ities | 3 comments

Some time this week I magically turned thirty-two.

32!

Isn’t that meant to be old? Cause I don’t feel old (though, listening to ABC radio, I think I automatically qualify, regardless).

I’ve been royally spoilt by my friends and family, some which I’ve either blogged about or posted to flickr.

I also got these, which was a massive surprise cause I totally intended to reimburse Leigh for these:

Needless to say, I’m feeling very very verrrrrrrrrrrry spesh this week :)

Things I’ve learned about the number thirty two (thanks, Wikipedia)!:

A soccer ball is made with 32 panels of leather
The number of teeth of a full set of teeth in an adult human, including wisdom teeth
32 is the smallest number n with exactly 7 solutions to the equation φ(x) = n (okay, I’m going to trust you on that one)
32 is the ninth happy number (and now I know what a happy number is, so this exercise hasn’t been a complete waste)
32 = 1¹ + 2² + 3³

This post is part of Noice-ities at That’s Noice – why don’t you join in and share something noice that’s happened to you this week?

What sort of crafter are you?

Posted by Laura on Monday May 17 2010 in Sewing and such | 1 comment

Alex of Crafternoon describes her crafting as having “enthusiastic bursts” and when I read this I burst out laughing. Cause I’m the bloody same!

Let’s see, that sewing machine I bought last month… I haven’t touched it in about 3 weeks. It’s starting to collect dust.

BUT! It’s because I’ve fallen in love with crochet (which I keep mis-typing as “crotch”, which is, erm, lovely).

It started as a big plan to go to a class through The Craft Room after perving on Sarah London’s stunning crochet work. But realised that I couldn’t afford to go as quickly as my ADHD wanted me to. So I’ve been teaching myself courtesy of YouTube videos. Lots of YouTube videos. I’ve made lots of practice pieces and about 3 times I’ve started a “proper” crochet project of a blankie and each time I get distracted after about 4 days and want to start it again using a different method. Or different YARRRRRRRRN (American ladies of YouTube have infiltrated my brain).

I just went on a quick hunt around the house for random crochet pieces and this is what I found:

There’s more. I just can’t find it all. Some have been stolen by the cats to be used as playthings. So I guess all is not lost.

I went through a knitting phase about four years ago (I made three scarves). Sewing is clearly out for the time being and I’m wondering how long the crochet will survive. I currently take crochet wherever I go, on lunch dates, to work, to hospital when I visit mum… I’m even known to crochet while watching Doctor Who or while sitting up in bed instead of reading. So I guess this is the height of my “enthusiastic burst”?

I’m planning on popping along to a Crafternoon session very very soon. I love the idea of hanging out with a bunch of cool crafty ladies and picking up tips and tricks while nomming on cafe snacks.

Don’t sweat the big stuff

Posted by Laura on Monday May 17 2010 in ACOA | 6 comments

So this week’s been, well, shite. Friday afternoon, I hit my wall. I decided to stop sweating the big stuff and focus on the simple pleasures of life.

Like the cupcakes that Liz & Jarod made especially for me and delivered on Friday night:

(Don’t tell them, but I still get a bit of a leaky eye when I think of the effort that went into these, just for me!)

I got to hang out with Big Angus yesterday and we laughed at fart noises and played in the park and he let me watch him jump all over the couch:

I hung out on the floor and took photos of Elvis:

And I wore my new cupcake PJs whenever I was home (Liz and Jarod can vouch for this one!)

So even though there are a multitude of things I’m behind on with housework, web work, wedding planning… this weekend I said stuffit and focused on me.