Skipper bag

Kate Spade Skipper bag.
Here is my reception bag:) I'll probably keep some tylenol, bandaids, my phone, my lipgloss, and my small veil in it.

a break

I am taking a break now.
We took care of most everything, we just have some last minute cleaning to do. But everything is pretty much put away and the house is vacuumed. So I am feeling better now. I am pooped. I cooked the meat sauce and just took a shower. It feels great to be clean. After I take the trash out and break down some recycling I am calling it a night.

We got some movies for tomorrow. Salt, some Nicholas Cage movie, and Cats and Dogs.

I also talked to Candace a little today. I can't wait to see her. She is gonna arrive next thursday:)

So here is what I have left to do for the reception.
1) Final dress fitting on Tuesday at 4pm.
2) Make centerpieces
3) put together favors and have them in order
4) get flowers (especially boquet)
5) get hershey kisses and use some roses for petals.
6) get everything to freedom hall on friday.
7) call cake people to see if they received the cake topper yet.
8) get brows waxed and upper lip waxed.
9) get nails done (hands and toes)
10) touch base with entire bridal party.
11) plan day with guests.

Sheesh quite a bit to do.

exhausted

So I have been cleaning on and off all day. It is now 4:38pm and I am exhausted. Our house is still not clean. But there isnt that much left. We just have a few more stuff to put away, recycling to put away, and vacuuming/dusting and laundry. We are about to head out to do some shopping.

Shopping list
1. Pet store
- crickets
- sand
2. Sees candy
-gift for Louise
3. some alcohol store
- gift for Fred
4. Barnes and Nobles
- gift for Roberta
5. Safeway
- veggie pizza
- cheese pizza
- ragu
- spaghetti
- oj
-ground beef
- cookies.

6. chinese place
- george dinner

When we return, george will eat while I put stuff away. I'll also throw in another load of laundry. Then George will vacuum while I cook the meatballs and my dinner.
Then I will put stuff away in the kitchen while george does some last minute dusting and wiping of counters.
Then I will fold laundry and we will get the bedroom ready and sleep.


see exhausting. we better get a move on.

update

the favors arrived today. The hearts are a lot smaller than i thought. I actually like them better, they look like candies.
The camera's arrived as well.

also got my stupid time of the month. cramps suck big time.
looking forward to seeing christine though.

oh and i  need to get down to san jose to deal with flowers and the pearl stuff.

Busy busy weeks ahead

So this week is gonna be hella busy.
Tomorrow
work: website and brochure
home: deep clean living room, kitchen, and bathroom, and so laundry, call maria and give her gift, mail out all holiday cards.
reception: 5:20pm go to bart station to pick up christine.
meet with christine and zeba to work on table cards, centerpieces, and seat chart.

Wed
home: deep clean computer room, my room, bedroom.
reception: gather all reception stuff together in my room.
music: 6:00pm meet with elite entertainment.

Thursday
home: clean garage
reception: call dress people if dress hasn't arrived yet.

Friday:
1) clean house entirely, dusting, vacuum, put everything in attic.
2) call glow to resched
3) drop off cake topper
4) go to costco for pizza, get tomato sauce and meat.
5) fred gift, and louise gift
6) have house ready for xmas

Saturday
Xmas, so do nothing.
(send parents home with centerpieces, favors etc.)

Sunday
clean some more. and relax.

Next week. (hopefully have dress ready)
Monday
work
clean
test beauty looks. hair and makeup.

Tuesday
visit parents and get nails done. maybe.

Wed.
prepare backyard for guests.

Thursday
spend day with fam
figure out catering or food for saturday party

Friday
spend new years with fam
drop off reception stuff with freedom hall.
new years party

starting to worry

So I still havent heard from the dress people yet
we have tons of phone calls to make
our place isnt sparkling clean yet
we still have to do centerpieces, christmas cards, seat chart, table cards, blah lah lah.

AHHHHHHHH
and i just discovered we have less than 3 weeks. more like 2 weeks because we cant do anything on xmas day and a few days before. ahhhhh

Reception update etc

We have 75 people definitely coming right now.
Photographer is done
meeting with reception hall this week.


still waiting for my dress to arrive. although it is finished but i think its still in paris.
still need to create seat chart and namecards
favors
flowers
candy
create centerpieces

im cleaning up right now and the rooms look way better already.

oh and here are some other gorgeous sparkly

Swarovski

I absolutely love the gorgeous crystals

But not everything looks great.
Here are a few of my favorite pieces

Lunar collection

 

lunar indian sapphire (I think im gonna lend these to my mom to wear on the reception)

lunar crystal blush (looked great on mom)

I also love the blush earrings with this

melancholy (wow)

indicolite collection

points of light indicolite pendant

mila earrings

melrose aqua bangle

worn with

melrose bangle

plus I love the idea of any of these worn with this anthropologie top

 

maybe the lunar rose set more. 

finally 

galet pendant

Makeup

Reception makeup


Makeup forever
primer

Sheshiedo
hydra foundation
lip treatment
and
lip pencil

Thi Cosmetics
eye cream base
concealer
face powder

Nars
blush

Smashbox shadowliner ( in pot, use bronze and green)
 Smashbox shadow liner (pencil form in bronze)
Smashbox holly highlights on face, eyes. and lip gloss over the following lip products.

Giorgio Armani Lip Ink, Mediteranean fig

Guerlain kiss kiss gloss serum (Tonka)
 this stuff is like the perfect gloss. This and Tarte are my favs. I put on a stain under it and I can simply put this on and need nothing else.

Tarte
eyebrow wax

Buxom
mascara

Gifts roberta will like

1) Journal
2) Nail polish kit

vows

wow writing vows is really hard. There are a lot of things I could say to george but in private since it is really cheesy.

so here is a sample of what I have come up with,

I choose you George to be my husband and partner in life in front of our friends and family. I promise to love and cherish you through the good times and bad. I promise to never walk away from you, instead I will stay and argue until we make up. I promise to cook more often and to not complain to much when its my turn to do the dishes. I promise to try not to nag you too much, even though your dirty sock almost made me faint. I promise to support you in your decisions and to let you have the remote every now and then. Most of all I promise to love you since I have found my home in you.

new favorite hairstyle

so frustrated

Sometimes George makes me want to scream. He can be so irresponsible. I ask him if he has a final exam. He tells me that his final project is his final exam. I tell him to double check and he tells me that his teacher didn't mention the exam. I tell him that he needs to not be an idiot and to check. He refuses and i check for him. I was right. He has a final exam, a final written project and presentation to make. The two combined is worth half of his grade. I tell him his project is not easy and he needs to get started now because he needs to be at least partyway done today. What do I find out. He hasnt even finished reading all the chapters yet. He still hmk to do on top of this and he is still playing his computer game. He can be such a child. If he fails this class, he certainly would have earned that grade. I ask him what day his final is going to be on. He tells me that he doenst know. How can you not know ugh!!!!!

With that said, I am pretty ok for my exam. I wont be getting an A. But as long as I get a grade above a D I can get a B in the class. I don't feel too bad. But I have to get cleaning. Today I plan on having my bedroom cleaned. I tink everything that needs to be stored away I will be into the living room for George to put in the attic when his final is over. He obviously wont be helping me with cleaning until his exam is over so for the next two weeks its gonna be on me. My final is on wed so I figure Thursday I'll spend the day cleaning the kitchen and living room. Then Friday I have work and sat i plan on visiting my parents. I may end up staying home though and cleaning the computer room and our bedroom. Sunday I will work on the computer room and garage. Then I can start deep cleaning the carpets and dusting and scrubbing.

So I think im gonna have some fun with it. Here are some ideas of how I will end up doing my bedroom after it is cleaned. This is gonna be a project though since I don't have the money and might have to hand make a lot of stuff.
But yeah here are my inspirations
mine will be soft green and cream shades. I love teh foot stool and the chair and headboard.

I love the plush victorian look of this room. 

I like the bedding especially the pillows. I wish I could have bookshelves like this but my room is very small. So it will basically be just my bed, the dresser, my bookshelves. The tv will be on top of the dresser. The bookshelves will contain my fun books (no textbooks) and a display for my trinkets. Eventually I want to organize the closet too with shoe racks, and drawers for my clothes etc.

I am taking a break from preparing for my final right now.
I got my results for my extra credit, i got the whole 30 points. this surprise me.

I had a dream last night where I was going to this fabulous ball. Yes an actual ball. It was a royal ball complete with kings and queens. I was a guest, some kind of duchess or something. It was strange. it was sort of like cinderella, only I was not cinderella, I was just an on looker. I was very happy. I had a family complete with husband and two children and a comfortable home. We never worried about money and I felt beautiful. I had on a hunter green dress some light colored diamond shaped earrings, a huge green crystal dangled from my neck. I had on this nice solitaire cushion cut diamond ring with an eternity band under it. My right hand was bare but had a really nice peridot bracelet on it. My shoes had crystals all over it, so that it looked like a glass slipper almost. I had really long hair that curled at the ends and my hair was piled messily on my head. I remember i was dancing. I felt so free like nothing in the world mattered. Then I noticed I was the only one dancing, I looked up to see a beautiful woman walking into the ballroom. I remember I was in awe of her beauty. She looked kind, and gentle and I felt safe knowing she was there. It was strange because as she entered I backed out and joined the rest of the crowd as I watched her dance with the prince. I was thinking that this was a moment I would always remember when I woke up. See very strange dream.

Anyways I started browsing online to try to come up with my outfit.

 

the color was like this. 

 

but this style was more like this

the earrings were like this that just perched on my lobes. Only the color was more of a light green, a minty color.

 
 

 shoes drool

I couldnt find a crystal pendant or a bracelet like the one in my dream. ok back to work

tired, and xmas shopping

So we actually got quite a bit of our xmas shopping done. I think this year will be the year of the gift card. Just we are on a budget and don't really see anything that is that awesome.

Finished
Dad
Roberta
Kathryn
Andrew
Joseph (partially done)
Karine (partially done)
Zeba
Grandma Anna
Puo Puo

yet to do
Fred
Mom (although I know what to get her)
Louise (Chocolates)
Uncle Sam
She Ping
Jeanie
Uncle Mark
Anita and Family
Arman

Ideas
families (chocolate covered stuff or brownies in jars)
Olive oil stuff and soaps

cutting board, sweater or shirts,

OMG these would have been perfect!!!!!

Earrings

Pendant

Ring

to go with my leaf headband. Unfortunately these beauties are real diamonds.
So the earrings alone are like 250 bucks. bleh!!!! I think to have everything would be like 1000 or so. oh well!

Reception jewelry etc.

So here is what I planned on wearing and may still wear at some point.

Here are the earrings that George got for me.

 

They are really cute. Although I am starting to like these more. and might exchange them because they might go better with the headband.
Which I will put here just so we can see the jewelry together.

The set I might exchange them for.

I don't know though. I might go to the mall one of these days and try on the set and if I like it better I might do an exchange. Otherwise I'll just keep what I have.

Here are two pins that I am debating between. It depends on the sizes. One is 2 x 2 the other one I am not sure of.

This one is 2 x 2 inches

I really like this one as well.

The gottahaves including cake topper

So I kinda have a going list of gotta haves when it comes to shoes, bags, fashion items, and jewelery. This is when I have something in my mind and either I see something that is exactly what I pictured, or I see something that screams my name. It is quite fortunate that this doesn't happen often. Some of these items are dream things that I will probably never in my life purchase.

Bags:
1)Coach ladybug green bag
2) cross body large bag that is shaped a bit like a bean and can be thrown to my back. I saw this on a person walking down the street before and should have asked her where she got it.


Shoes:
1) Jimmy Choo Tahiti
2) Super comfortable heels like my black manolos.
3) My kate spade reception shoes

Jewelry (the most fall here)
1) Round center diamond raised slightly with accent stones on the sides and a great gallery view. (my engagement ring)
2) Good size solitaire ring.
3) Color diamond ring, pink, blue, yellow, red, champagne, chocolate, etc.
4) Princess cut studs the same size as my round studs.
5) round studs held together by three prongs.
6) diamond hoop earrings 1.5 to 2 inches.
7) omega back diamond drop earrings
8) peridot ring with euro shank
9) opal ring with great undergallery
10) great bangle bracelet.
11) great charm bracelet
12) large pendant of some sort
13) blue diamond heart shaped ring I saw once and though, I have to have it.

14) my snake rings ( one is silver with garnet eyes, the other is gold over silver with imitation chocolate diamonds)
15) burmese ruby pave earrings and necklace
Im freezing so I'll leave it at this.

oh wait and here is my cake topper.

Two Pieces I forgot to Post

Affinity

Nadri

Smashbox waterproof shadow liner

Is awesome! I can give myself an entire eye look with these.

Jewlery finds that caught my eye

There are two types of jewelry that will catch my eye. I love jewelry and often look at it, but not everything makes me go wow. Every once in a while I find something that I really want,other times I see stuff I like and most of the time, i just think its pretty. My taste tends to go from simple understated elegance to elaborate vintage and well big. 

When it comes to very expensive jewelry (like the solitaires shown in previous posts) I tend to like it simple and clean. But when it comes to fashion jewelry, I like them more elaborate as well as the simple types. 

Here are a few.

 

Tacori

I love the dark pink shade of the simulated pink tourmaline.  This is also Tacori.

Verragio

Bixby Storyteller bracelet.

This makes a great stand in for an engagement ring. I love the bezel setting and the asscher cut stone (very modern)

This one is great because its clean looking and also Huge. It would make a great pointer finger ring. 

Sometimes I like a big honking huge band ring. 

These three pieces are by Jean Dousset.

The rest of these are all other Absolute styles.