Random Ramblings

I was beyond excited when this all occurred. At this point, i have come to terms with it, have stopped smiling, and am now ready to share with you.

We bought our first Christmas tree!! Eeekk! ( oh no, i squealed. This means i wasn't ready ) It is so pretty. It is 7.5 feet tall and pre lit. I'm sure it doesn't have as many light as i would like, but nothing a couple of extra strands of lights cant take care of. We got an amazing deal on it, that's why we couldn't pass it up. We also purchased a tree skirt, one of those plush quilt-like ones, a green and red jingle bell wreath and last but not least... Christmas cookie cutters! I had to work hard to convince Juju to get the jingle bell wreath. He was afraid it would sound too much like a convenient store every time someone would come in. We decided to get it, again, great deal on that too. The cookie cutters weren't much of a battle, he likes cookies. Enough said.

The true reason for our visit to Michael's was to purchase our aisle runner, which i had been looking for weeks. Since I'm a frugal bride and will try to do a lot DIY ('DIM'-do it myself) projects, i was looking for a cloth aisle runner which i will personalize by adding our monogram, since you cant do it on the plastic ones. Oh and i was looking for a specific pattern. And now, that we have came to an agreement about the main & accent colors of our wedding, i can finally buy the paint and get started.

We also purchased a "Bowdabra" to make our bows ( for the pews ), hence the name. We bought a spool of practice ribbon to figure out what type of bows we want. lets see... what else did we buy... hm. Oh yeah, a few silk flowers to toss around a few bridesmaids bouquet ideas. I think that's it. All in all it was a very successful shopping trip to Michael's.

I'll let you know as soon as I start on my DIM projects.