The Magic Hour

I love how cozy our bedroom is.  I love reading by twinkle lights with a warm Sinful Cynthia kitty on my feet.  I love cuddling up next to my Bear and talking about our day, and planning our future a little bit at a time.  I love how in this moment, right before sleep and after a hectic day, I can let everything go and just enjoy being alive and in love.

As Promised... a Lack in Posting

As I mentioned before, this week is crazy, so I won't be posting as often as usual.  I hope you lovely readers will stick around anyway!  I promise a big reveal of all we've been up to... it's gonna be a virtual tour of our apartment!  Yay!

Today I was pleased to discover my LibertyBelt I bought from Etsy arrived!  I am so excited about using this for the wedding... it's even one of the wedding colors!  Since I will be wearing nice dress pants with shallow, useless pockets, this will provide me storage for extra batteries, filters, SD cards, and lens cloths... and other small necessities.  I am so excited to use it!

I ALSO received my cat nip felted fish from Claire of Nothing Happens Unless We Dream!  Sinful Cynthia and Zia Maida gave the fishy a trial run... Zia was completely perplexed, but Cyn was in love.  In fact, we decided we have to keep the fishy away from them unless we supervise their playtime, since Cyn is determined to eat the fishy up!  She was adorable while attacking, though.  (Please excuse my bedroom... it was a catch-al while we were cleaning, and is the last room to get organized!)

haha, she was so hard to capture in her crazy cat nip frenzy!

Father's Day this past weekend was wonderful!  I escaped the weddingness took some time to treat my parents to brunch on Sunday and spent some quality time with my dad.  Mom took the best picture of us to date, I think!  I am so happy with this shot!  I can see that resemblance people always told me about in the past...

Then Bear made steaks and fries for his dad for dinner, and Tori made some veggies.  We picked up the quarter keg for the new keggerator, so draft beer was the beverage for the meal!  It was a good day all around!

Keep tuned... this week will feature a series of posts giving you a virtual tour of our newly purtified apartment!  In the meantime, I am working while these focused helpers work around the house... see how attentive they stay?  Clearly, they never get bored or distracted...

Even our nephew-kitty Trot is on the job!  Or... sleeping on the job.

 Hopefully, Bear is a better supervisor than I!  Haha

Photobomb Friday: We have MiFi!

Again, I bring you Friday's post on a Saturday... but I can because we got Mifi!  Which means I have internet at home (at least whenever Bear doesn't take it with him to work...)!

We are still working like crazy getting this place ready for guests and weddingness... the countdown is at a WEEK.  I've been having crazy stress nightmares that are simultaneously frightening and hilarious.  Bear is also setting lights for the Local Theatre's current show, so a lot of housework is falling to me right now.  It's so stressful, but it will all be worth it!

I am so lucky to have two jobs that are graciously letting me take time off for prep starting Thursday, but I probably won't be posting here as often as the wedding looms nearer.  I have a lot to do, from making decor to organizing my photo equipment and meeting with Patchie who will be my Second Shooter (her first wedding gig!).

So, today I am Photobombing adorable kitten photos to promote smiles and relieve a little stress.  Aw, kitties!

 The Scottish Fold above is was my Aunt's beloved Angus.  Sadly, he passed shortly after I took these pictures.  But, they are getting a new Scottish Fold Kitten, named Cooper!  My Aunt is from Scotland, and apparently the Scottish Fold breed were discovered in or originally bred in Coupar Angus, Scotland.  I have such clever family!

And because they are so darn difficult to photograph, I am reposting these images of Rummy and Dart:

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

xo

PS- Notice a lack of Grateful posts?  I am the worst at keeping up on one of those photo-a-day challenges.  Hopefully sometime soon it will make a comeback.  I am so ashamed... and just plain busy!

Playing Catch-Up

Not to be confused with ketchup.  Ew.  (I'm allowed my "ew", I can't eat tomatoes.  Don't cry for me... Argentina..., I only miss the little cherry tomatoes.  Otherwise, I feel it's no real loss.)

An old cell phone picture of old entrance to kitchen (Cyn is in the doorway!)  Not pretty.  Look at that carpet!  Bleh.  There is a 2x4 holding up our countertop there... and the microwave is on a rolling cabinet from the 1980's that was once painted white,, and has since turned grey.

Lately, we've been renovating our "kitchen", which had blue carpet and yellow and blue walls and a hideous blue flower wallpaper edging around the ceiling. It was once Bear's childhood bedroom (with a different paint job back then!).  The house we live in is divided into apartments, and we have the upstairs, which was originally designed for Bear and his brother and sister when they were kids.  Because our space originally had three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a common "game room", we have had to do a lot of work to make it work as an apartment.  One room is our master bedroom (it was his older sister's room and has it's own bathroom).  Another is our office space/ guest room/ music room/ studio.  The "game room" is now the "living room".  And we are in the process of turning the last bedroom into a REAL KITCHEN!!!

I'm sure I haven't mentioned that... right?  Maybe once?  Or... constantly?

We knocked down walls and painted the room "Toasted Apricot", as well as repainted the hall wall a brighter blue.  No more carpet!!!  The color is pretty intense at the moment, but once the cabinets, backsplash, etc are installed, and we get the hutch and furniture back in (we have all really dark wood furniture), I think it will be perfect!  By the way, this is the same viewpoint as the first picture!!!

Clearly, I am excited!  We've been working non-stop, knocking down walls, painting, installing new flooring, patching walls, rewiring things, measuring, running to Lowes, Home Depot, then Lowes again, looking online for things, getting my parents and his to help, wrangling cats and dogs from open paint cans... it's tiring but so wonderful!  I can't wait for everything to come together!

See?  We started with the left, found supplies and made a plan (center, but we opted for the deeper apricot shade under the one pictured; you can kinda see our shade poking out), and now are on the right... well, actually a little more has been done since this last shot...

Please forgive the lack of creative posting... I am just so incredibly preoccupied.  We're also getting the house ready for Bear's sister's wedding which takes place here in June!  It's just plain crazy town where we are right now!

Regardless, I will keep posting as planned, Monday - Friday, and hopefully I will get posts back to interesting topics.  This little blog is becoming very important to me... my little corner of the universe as it were.  I hope it will continue to grow over time.  It's one of the few things I have been completely dedicated to since getting started, and I am loving learning about so many other people... and myself.

Well, I will be back tomorrow with some wedding things!  Today, Patchie and I may be meeting up for another romp through the State Park (which will be nice, since my morning will involve lugging a ton of 2x4's to the dump and painting a million cabinets, and yet another run to Lowe's!).  I talked about it for the last Photobomb on Friday, and you can see the park through Patchie's eyes here!!!

She took a bunch of photos of me looking awkward with way too many cameras hanging off my neck...

Photos of me via Patchie

Have a lovely Tuesday!