Thank God for good friends and a pretty family

So last week I had a photo shoot for some of my newest designs!  It was so exciting.  I got to spend some quality time with my nieces and sister-in-law (aka my models) and also got to see my friend's (aka my photographer's) talent in action.  It was an awesome day.  Unfortunately, that night the horrible flu that everyone has been talking about and I thought I was going to bi-pass...hit.  Ugh...I probably haven't been that sick in 10 years.  It got the whole family!  I will spare you the gory details and just say, I think it's behind us.

So last night I finally got to update my Etsy page with the amazing new photos added to it.  I am really excited about the new looks and I have to say I pride myself in offering designs that are a little non-traditional.  I hope you appreciate that too.  :)  Again though, these are just designs I've created...I think through this process I have been proving to myself there isn't much I'm not capable of doing.  So all you brides out there with custom ideas in mind, please don't hesitate to challenge me with them!

And thank you to my beautiful nieces Morgan...

Madison...

And last but not least, my awesome sis-in-law Stephanie...

And a HUGE thank you do Brian for taking beautiful pictures!  

If you would like to see more of my designs, please visit my Etsy page!  Wedding season is coming upon us quick...Tell all your friends!!!

For information or custom orders, please email me at:

27dressesdesigns@gmail.com

www.etsy.com/shop/27DressesDesigns

   

Dream on

Have you ever thought about what it's going to be like when you're "old"?  Not like the kind of thinking you did when you were 12 where you think about the big mansion you'll live in with your rich doctor husband, but the kind where you already have your husband (who isn't rich, but his dimples make you melt when he smiles at you so it's ok), and you wonder what life will be like together?  How both of you will be as a married couple down the road? It's kind of a reoccurring daydream I have a lot.  I go there in my mind because it's a good feeling for me.  I feel like we'll be a "cool" older couple.  Maybe a little quirky too, but cool nonetheless...

Although I would make a pretty stellar Walmart greeter, I think I want to work at hobby lobby...for the discount.  :)  And Johnsie (my cute dimpled better half) will probably be in some sort of customer service field as well.  Hmmm...maybe he'll be the Walmart greeter.  He loves people too much not to be around them.  I will probably have some cute short hair style, platinum in color, and he'll probably wear denim shirts like the ones he currently makes fun of dudes for wearing.  Some days he'll take me to lunch and flirt with the young waitress only so he can get her attention long enough to tell her (and anyone else who will listen), how much he loves me, and brag about how we are just about to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary.  Then he'll whip out his wallet and show off his grand kids, hoping that the little waitress really cares about his story and not just her tip.  I think about sitting on the porch drinking coffee...playing guitar together when our hands are wrinkled and arthritic...I think about kissing him when I'm 70, and still feeling butterflies in my tummy.

Sometimes I think these daydreams give me a sense of sanity in this crazy world.  So for all of you brides-to-be out there, I wish you many years of these daydreams.  Don't believe the lies of this world.  Marriage is far from disposable.  It is sacred and it is beautiful.

So dream on.  :)