Just don't order one in a bar in Ireland (again)

Tom's birthday is next week and I wanted to find a good way to celebrate it.  Although a St. Patty's Day birthday seems like it should be awesome, most years his birthday also falls during a busy time in the semester, so Tom often misses out on much celebrating.

Left-overs

I thought he'd enjoy a celebration with friends, so I planned a surprise weekend and invited several of his local guy friends.  His brother also drove down from Pittsburgh, which was a huge surprise.  I told Tom to plan on a weekend off from studying (didn't want him to fall behind on his reading/writing schedule), but nothing more.  I learned from others that he was convinced we were going out of town for the weekend; fortunately, I don't think he was disappointed by good food, golfing, and lots of beer.

Playing With Colors

No big post here except to say that everyone should check out Kuler.

Image borrowed from incolororder.blogspot.com, a great blog that lead me to the site

Stupid spelling aside, I am impressed so far.  I just read about it on another blog and I think it might be a great tool for sewing and decorating.

I'm trying to decide how to redecorate (or, well, decorate in the first place) our bedroom, but I've been completely stumped when it comes to choosing colors.  I want to make a quilt, but need to have inspiration first.

This could be a total time suck.

Collecting and Arranging

It's been such a busy few weeks around here that I haven't gotten much done.  Work's been going very well and I've gotten such kind feedback following my promotion, even a few rounds of applause!  Last week was the busiest of busy, with four client meetings, an event with a senior Member of Congress, and another event with a member of the President's Cabinet.  Not bad for the first week on the job!

While I do enjoy being busy, it doesn't give me a lot of time to blog or things to blog about.  I have gotten one thing accomplished, though!  I think our wedding photographer had given up on us, but we've finally made some progress with our wedding album.  As part of our contract, he's creating an album for us and we have input into his photo selections and layout.  That's awesome, right up until the time we're supposed to actually make those decisions.  We kept putting off that task until early December, when we made a bunch of revisions which included formatting that he was able to understand.  Then Tom and I both got so very sick and then school and then work and then, well...you know. Suddenly it's March.  I realized over the weekend that if we didn't get this done soon, it would be another busy wedding season and our photographer wouldn't have time for us.  So, I spent last night arranging and rearranging.

creative mess

I loved looking through all of our beautiful photos; laughing at some, shaking my head at others, and smiling at many.  However, I did not love making decisions.  Fortunately, I had some help.

Hopefully I'll also have some help putting away this mess tonight.  Fingers crossed I'll have a beautiful album to share soon!