A Simile

Sometimes, love feels a lot like picking tiny scraps of toilet paper off of 100+ cardboard rolls.

Delegation

On the cakeage front, there has been NO sample cakes made to date. Except the one EJ made to show FMIL ("Mom") his recipe. However, "Mom" has decided she needs to 'brush up' on her cake decorating skills by taking 2 Wilton cake decorating classes at JoAnn's. She is already showing up the other ladies in class (no guys are there, sadly).

This is from her first week:

Cute, eh? EJ's had the honor of ingesting her classwork this week; tomorrow she's frosting and decorating an entire CAKE (but I don't think that's going to EJ - he has plans to shape up before I have to fit him for his wedding outfit!)

Plugging Along...

We've been feverishly working on random bits for the reception. Favor containers:

This is part one of ((three, sadly)) - trying to ready everything for the big minion-fest we should be having in August or early-early September to get all this stuff completed.

EJ has also been working diligently:

He has been working on some of the deco for our centerpieces. It is slowly but surely coming along!

One thing we have learned recently: (Jeep - shocks) + huge pothole + poorly wrapped vases = broken glass + frustration. Lesson learned.

We have also ::finally:: found a vendor who (doesn't carry, but has ordered) another part of our centerpieces for us; and Karen, our former Flower Maiden who has given herself a new and better title which I promptly deleted from my text messages before I could update her on the sidebar, has generously donated a HUUUUGE bag of felt which will become components for multiple deco and favor items...thanks, Ren!

One More Project FINISHED!

Slowly but surely, we (I) are (am) making progress on our long long list of wedding projects: