The, I Do's

My brother's garden wedding was without a doubt a beautiful and completely successful event. Butterflies were released after the wedding vows as a surprise. The entire bridal party looked amazing and the weather was perfect. My sons looked amazing with their ties (so cute) and one person even suggested that they should be models or have their own band. I have to admit, they are all that.

I didn't take a lot of photos because there was a wedding photographer there, so it felt redundant taking more. My oldest son did get one of me. I don't even remember him taking it. So because it was un-posed for, this is probably my real smile.


Anybody who's ever been to a wedding would know that to say it was perfect, would be a little white lie of the most gi-normous proportions.

Add new family dynamics, a stressful event, a keg of beer and tables full of wine and WHAMMO! Only the pits of hell know such drama inspired pandemonium.

Wedding Day Eve

My brother's wedding day is tomorrow. He's the guy that lent me some of his stem cells and that's why I'm here today.

Preparing for a wedding sure takes a lot of money and effort and all we are doing is showing up. I bought my sons new clothes and shoes, as well as getting myself a dress.

I dug around my antique jewellery and decided on some sparkley beads,

To go with the grey dress,

and the Fly shoes.

I couldn't afford a sweater for me, so I bought a beautiful wrap in a light grey so as not to compete with the shoes.



Money is really tight these days and often I find that can lead to a lot more creative solutions! I made a painting for them and couldn't afford wrapping paper or even tape so I dug around the house for what I had. I came up with some brown paper and pulled out my paints. I had to glue the wrapping paper together and then I added the detail. I decided there would be no surprise once they saw the shape of the gift, so I just went with it.

My son did say after that maybe they could have thought it was a very large book.


Speaking of creative solutions, their daughter turned one last month and I found an old decrepit little bunny rocker in the thrift store. It was made by hand by somebody and I decided it needed a new life. My sons scraped paint, sanded, redid screws, painted and I did the embellishment on top.


It was $5 and I used what I had kicking around. I did buy a new can of clearcoat to protect it so it cost almost $15 in the end.

It won over a lot of hearts, too.