These are some of my new things from the shower. My cupboards just looked so shiny and pretty, I had to share.
So far, I’ve been sleeping on satiny new sheets, dining off these lovely dishes, and stocking my gourmet kithen and it’s enough to make a girl feel like she’s on holiday!
Also of note: look how my Fire King collection has grown! My lovely aunt Lisa did a little bit of sleuthing and found out that I love old fire king mugs. So she ordered a pretty little lot of them on eBay for me! Isn’t that so thoughtful! I particularly love the old pink one. I’ve never seen one like that before – isn’t it cute?
This weekend, my mom and sister threw me a wedding shower, and it’s lovliness cannot be overstated.
The food was super amazing!!! Pink and green tea sanwiches, broccoli slaw, spinach and strawberry salad, devilled eggs, crab puffs, and a chicken-pesto sanwiches cake (yes, a sanwich shaped like a cake, iced in cream cheese!).
And desert… Tea! In my grandmothers mismatched tea cups, with scones and clotted cream, berry trifle, and the teensy-tiniest doll sized eclairs you’ve ever seen!
On top of that, there was raspberry lemonade, passion iced tea, and a house full of pink, green and white flowers and decorations.
They really went above and beyond.
Despite some minor mishaps (a lot of cancellations, a car accident and localized torrential downpours) it was a pretty perfect afternoon, and even better that I got to share it with my nearest and dearest!
These are the invites, if you haven’t seen them yet. I’m pretty proud of them, actually. And I should be – they were weeks and weeks of work!
Pie? You ask.
Yep, pie. We’re asking all our friends to bring their favourite pie in lieu of desert.
Pie is, I guess, the closest thing we have to a theme for this shindig, along with a collegiate, 30’s, Wodehousian flavour (yes, we’re complex, abstract kinda people).
I’m particularily happy with the way it all came together… our concept being rather complex and abstract and all. All those colours, all those themes, all our ideas, they’re in there somewhere, represented and personified. Which is ideal really – they say an invite should be a hint, a taste of what’s to come.
So hopefully that means that all our hard work will ultimately pay off on the big day, like it did with our invites.
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