Monday, August 17, 2009

Wedding and Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was awesome! My family came in town to visit for my late birthday and my friends wedding. I took off two days of work and paled around with my mom and dad and had a normal (hang out with your family) weekend. We played on the floor with Maddie and took naps, and watched stupid SNL video's on hulu.com and just chilled. It was so great. Melissa's wedding was so great b/c we got to meet the family she's joining into and hear about how much they just love her like she was their own daughter. It was amazing to hear the gratitude and love come from a whole family about one person. I only wish to be spoken about out loud like that when its time for me to get married. It was all wonderful.

Stayed the night at a hotel with the other bridesmaids b/c we had a 6am hair appointment. The lady doing hair was coming to our hotel to do hair and make up so we were up bright and early. It felt like i was getting ready for a cheerleading competition. We had our matching "bridesmaid" tanks on and it felt like we were a team! :o) I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. The bride was beautiful and the groom was adorable.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Inspiration Boards

Ok, so i got bored and saw that people make "inspiration boards" for weddings or birthday parties or other events, to gather thoughts and create a color palette and schemes for design. I decided i could totally make one, even without photoshop. i used extreme talent in power point presentation design to create a few of my own Inspiration Boards for weddings... Here they are...
these are a few of my favorite things...

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Finally Busy at Work.

So the past few weeks/month have been quite stressful and really just down right frustrating. The economy has (almost) been succesful at destroying my drive to do my profession. We have slowed down significantly. even though theres been such effort to market the job force, its just been slow. We just recently started picking up speed, where i'm not cleaning up the office, i'm actually putting my hard earned profession to work. Its amazing the feeling you get when you get to put your brain to work. Where you get to think hard about solving a problem and strategizing the best way to arrange an office to make it work in the least amount of space possible. I love what i do. I realized that after being really bored by doing nothing for so long... that once you get busy again, and other people are paying you a lot of money to put together a 200 person office in 5 weeks... thats some awesome pressure.

Even still i have to check my favorite website, http://www.stylemepretty.com/ to see if anything has changed since the morning. Its a break in my day (even for 30 seconds) to check that website. Its like it re-charges my batteries and gets me going again. Seeing photos of wedding flowers, design and happy faces, its like the best refresher for me to get back to focusing again if i get too bogged down with what i was working on. Now if only we can get back to 40 hours and spread out all the new work rather than cramming it into a 35 hour week. Here is a new awesome photo from that website that i just fell in love with.... Pure, beautiful love.