Recommended: - SPA DAY before the BIG DAY!

My birthday was in February and FH gave me a gift certificate for a day at the spa, including a full body massage and facial. I've been saving it to use closer to the wedding and I decided that today was the day.

It was soo relaxing and I smell soo good now! I feel fantastic and relaxed and my skin is plump and literally glowing! And the best part is that when I came home FH had cleaned the entire apartment. He's such a sweetheart!! (xoxo) Anyways, as your big day approaches I highly recommend taking some time out and pampering yourself. After all this stress of planning you totally deserve it!


***Also, if you haven't yet, please, please please please go HERE and leave a comment voting for entry #1 (my diy robot cake topper)! Thank you so much!!!***
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MRS. SarahDarling!!! - Sneak Peak...

Ladies, ladies, ladies...the wedding is over and we are more happy than we could ever imagine!

There is SO MUCH to tell you girls about, but the quick overview is that the entire day was absolutely perfect!

The girls came to my place at 930am to start hair and makeup and no one could believe how calm I was! They kept telling me that I was making them nervous because I was just talking and laughing and eating instead of stressing out and pacing around! It just all felt so right that I knew there was nothing to worry about. I'm still waiting on getting pictures from our photog (about 3-4) weeks and I think I'm going to start bugging people on Facebook today to start posting what they have on their cameras. In the meantime enjoy the photo wall picture and one of my faves of me smoking cigars with the guys. Hosted by RockYouPhotos.com

ps. thank you SO MUCH for all your kind words in the last post. Before I started getting ready the morning of I got online and read them all. You girls are amazing and I am truly touched. Thank You!

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Sad Sad Sad Sad Sad Sad Sad - The Pictures are a Disaster

Oh girls. I can't believe this has happened. All that hard work I put into the wedding. All the hopes and dreams and diy time. All the effort....

We got our pictures back from our "professional photographer" last night and they are 3,000% terrible. I couldn't believe my eyes as I looked at each picture on the computer last night. 80% of them are just garbage. After I finally stopped crying last night I spent hours cropping and colour adjusting as much as I could. My REAL photographer friend has offered to take a look at them and fix what she can. Let me explain...people are orange. ORANGE!!! Or dark. Like in shadows. The pictures aren't centred. Yeah! How hard is it for a professional photographer to put the subject in the centre of the frame. Some of the pics aren't in focus. Dude! You have a digital camera....LOOK AT WHAT YOU JUST TOOK! Then the backgrounds...I obviously didn't notice because I had other things on my mind because of the WEDDING but why is there glare coming of frames, bathroom signs and just random people in the background of out pictures??? He messed up our "thank you" sign shots. He messed up our red shoes/black crinoline/argyle socks shot. I sent him very specific examples of what we were looking for and he majorly failed. To put it in perspective...if I put our "professional pictures" up next to snaps taken by our family and friends YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE. There is no sense of style or artistic intention in any of them. It looks like he pointed and shot. Who would do this to someone? I can't even post any of them right now because I'm too embarrassed. I feel like I've been cheated out of something that could have been so beautiful and now will never be. We found this photographer through our venue. Met him, looked at his work and his website. And he cost as much as any other photographer out there. I'm giving myself a stomach ache again just by writing this. I feel physically ill and like I'm going to be sick. And here come the tears again.

***UPDATE***
To give you a bit more background on him: He has worked as a photographer and as an A/V producer for the Ministries of Correctional Services, Natural Resources, and Tourism & Recreation. From 1982 - 1988 he was the official photographer of visiting heads of state for the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs and The Premier of Ontario's Office. Margaret Thatcher (U.K.), Francois Mitterand (France), The Aga Kahn, and Bishop Desmond Tutu (S.Africa) are among his photographed subjects. Other government clients include Tourism Canada and the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Technology. In 1988, he shot the World Economic Summit. He also won the Governor Generals Medal. So this is why we felt comfortable with him. Hell, he's been shooting for 40 YEARS!

The pictures that have been posted on facebook have been heavily, heavily, heavily edited and cropped and I feel that it is completely ridiculous to have to do my own post production on my wedding photos. They should be complete when he handed them to me. My engagement pics (that were awesome) and mentioned in a comment were done by my bridesmaid/photographer who has worked SO HARD to fix this jackasses mess and will be doing a reshoot with in June. I love her and highly recommend her for any bride in the GTA who wants a photographer who truly cares about their work. Her name is Angela Martin and she is a true gem.

We *just* emailed him our complaints letter. I'm nervous to hear what he says back. Thanks for all your support again. I've calmed down some, but still not happy.

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Fresh garden flowers bridal hair style ? Part 2

The full vigor of the ball head plate made If you do not like the complex bridal hair style, you may wish to try such a vibrant dish made full ball head in with the red roses on a simple, immediately increased the degree of hair suction eye. The hair curled full of fluffy goddess [...]

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Thank You & Goodbye - Finally My Turn!!!

I am so excited because tomorrow I finally get to marry my sweetheart! But it's also a tiny bit sad because it means my time planning has come to an end. Today we are off to the venue to drop off all my diy projects and finalize plans, dinner with the family and then a girly night of manicures and silly movies. I am surprised at how calm FH and I are (even though it's now calling for SNOW tomorrow), but it's nice to not be overly anxious right now. The amount of emails I've gotten in the past couple days from you gorgeous women has completely overwhelmed me. You are all way too sweet and too kind and have definitely touched my heart. Thank you so much for the time you've taken to read my blog, comment, share your ideas and let me be a part of your planning process. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

(ps. the silly counter is still wrong because I'm not getting married til tomorrow!)

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Commission Piece: Forrester Blue Pearl Bracelet

Another commission! This is the work in progress for a pearl bracelet based on the colours on the Forrester Clan. The colours are black, blue, green and red however for this piece the red is replaced with purple to match the outfit. 

 Starting out- organised for a while
 Forrester Clan ribbon and the beads:
pearls in various sizes and lots of
Swarovski 4mm bicone beads
 The Greens
 Blue crystals and the pearls
The 4 pearl strands now made in
4, 6, 8 and 10mm blue pearls
 and now to make the crystal stra nds.
the first one in blue and greens

 and the second strand with blue and purples


 Both strands together. I love all these colours-
this would make a lovely bracelet on it's own
 All the elements combined-
just need to get the ribbon now

Publish Post

How the bracelet looks in daylight
(ignore the bike tyre in the corner)

I will tak e some more photos when I've got the ribbon but I'm really happy with how it's turned out. Hopefully the buyer will be too

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