OrangeJuicy Journal

Joe and I are leaving on our long-awaited honeymoon (four years later…) in a week. We’re going to London, Paris, and Vienna

I’m so excited, I haven’t been able to focus on much else for several weeks now.

Does anybody have any recommendations for anything in those cities? I’ve got some good leads, but I’m getting conflicting info about which museums to visit and things like that. What’s your favorite?

And any suggestions on vegetarian food is greatly appreciated. (I’ve seen the happy cow link - anything else?) That’s about the only thing I’m really worried about!

Me: I’m not sure about the fit on these pants, what do you think?

Joe: See how the leg is tapered? It makes you look wider at the top than you are.

Me: Oh my god, have you been watching What Not to Wear without me?

Testing if I can post from my iPod.

I can!

I’ve had this FIRA chest from Ikea since middle school, I think. I’ve stored various things in it, but lately it’s been storing my seed beads. I sorted them into the drawers by color, but always ended up opening all the drawers to find the right color. I decided to cover the drawers with origami paper. This was a simple project.

The steps were:

1. Choose paper. (this step took the longest. And I didn’t find a satisfactory black and white print.) My colors were pink/purple, yellow, orange, green, blue, black/white. (I guess I don’t have any red?)

2. Chop paper to size. My drawers were 3 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches, but it looks like the newer ones are different sizes.

3. Run trimmed paper through my Xyron. I have recently rediscovered my love for this thing. I used it to adhere all of the Nya’s invitations too.

4. Peel and stick the paper to the drawers.

5. Trim with a blade around notch.

Simple and so cute!

Well, we’re 2 months out from Nya’s wedding and her invitations have been mailed to her in Florida and are being addressed. Yay! I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. I printed them on my inkjet, then printed the circle design on the backing card using my Gocco. I ordered all the supplies from Paper Source. (How I wish they would open a store in NYC!) I would have liked to have printed them on a nicer printer, but time and budget did not allow.

Speaking of budget, I think I spent about $50 on the invitations for our wedding. But now, having worked as an invitation designer for some time, I cringe a little when I think about them! Not that they were bad, but I made a few faux pas, to be sure. Everybody loved them though, and our wedding was definitely a very casual affair!

My sister’s wedding will be similar, but a little fancier - it’s in a location where they regularly hold weddings (as opposed to mine, which was in my father’s backyard!) so I feel like that steps it up a little. So I stepped up her invitations a bit.

Anyway, I hope Nya (and Evan!) likes them, because that’s really what it all comes down to! Happy wedding, you two!

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Yes that’s right, the long-awaited (at least by our families) home town show! Five dollars, there’s really no excuse not to come. NO EXCUSE.

See you there!

Something’s up… probably global warming, but I think this is cause for (mild) alarm…

I had meant to get to the actual Shakespeare in the Park - but it turns out that’s a big ordeal that involves standing in line for several hours. I kind of lost interest in it.

I heard about Piper Theatre doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Park Slope - set in early 1900s Coney Island - and well, how could I resist that?

It was a lot of fun - very silly. I only wish they would have played up the Coney Island theme a bit more. The costumes were fun, but the music was all contemporary, and Joe and I thought they really should have made Titania’s fairies be mermaids…

It’s playing though next week, if you’re in town, you should check it out.

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Happy Anniversary, Hubster.