Good News, Everyone!

Today, on the blogging menu, we have lots of random tidbits. Each one is followed with an exclamation point as there is definitely some exciting-ness going on.

1.  On Tuesday, we hit 10,000 page views!

When I first started this blog, I wondered if I would even hit 100.  There was no particular number goal, as this blog just serves as an outlet for me to talk solely about wedding-related things, but it's cool to see that my posts are being read and hopefully helping someone out in Webland.


2.  Yesterday was the 3-month mark until the wedding!  It's crazy to think that June is only 3 months away, but I better get used to it!

Since this week is Spring Break for me, I went to the District Court's office on Monday and applied for our wedding license.   I don't know if it's the same in other states, but I went back on Friday to pick it up after our 3-day waiting period.

This was something that really let sink in the fact that the wedding is only getting closer and closer.  The clerk in the office started telling me what to do in regards to name-changing, which I AM doing, and I started to understand how big of a task that is going to be post-wedding.  I googled it when I got home, and holy cow, my name is on a lot of stuff.  That should be a no-brainer, but it starts to add up:  social security, work, insurance, driver's license, utility bills, bank accounts and credit cards, email, passport, voter registration, doctors, my teaching license, car/home registration, etc.  Thank goodness I have the summer off!  I'll also be curious to see how my students deal with it when we get back to school.  I mean, I do teach high schoolers so they are perfectly capable of calling me something new, but some of these kids I've taught for 1-3 years so it might be an interesting adjustment for them.


3.  I managed to complete our aisle runner!

(The C is blue, but the picture makes in kind of hard to tell)

I started this project last summer, but my cat decided to cuddle with it and subsequently tore it all up.  I managed to salvage the part that I painted and decided that we would use it on the cake table: 

At that point, I was sick of painting and put all my supplies away (and the remainder of the aisle runner up high and out of kitty reach).  I decided to tackle the project again about a month ago when we had a slew of snow days.  Adam and I went over to the church and measured the length of the aisle to make sure that we had enough fabric left, decided where we wanted the logo to be positioned (it's going to be up by where we stand), and then cut it to size.  This time I was extra careful:  locking the cat away in the other room if I was going to leave the house for a little, making sure it had enough time to dry so that I could put it in the spare room overnight, and keeping a keen eye on the cat anytime he was wandering around.

My efforts turned out to be well-founded and we now have another item checked off this to-do list. To store it, I covered the painted area with wax paper and rolled it back up together where it will safely wait for its debut high up in the closet.

I'm not going to make a tutorial for this one since I basically did on the first post, but check there if you're wondering how it all went down (or at this blog which is where I originally got the idea and has a great tutorial).  Basically, print a template, trace it in pencil on the aisle runner, put down wax paper on your work area and paint using acrylic paint (and have a variety of paintbrushes).  And have patience.  I would work in one direction, let it dry and then come back and work on the other side of the outline of letter.

4.  I found this Pinterest user:  Labels @worldlabel.com!  I actually ran across their blog and they share tons of free label templates.  I have had the hardest time finding free vector images and templates like this so it will be a great asset.  They are basically a company that sells printable labels, but they share so much free stuff, it is awesome!

And I guess we'll call it a wrap for this blog post.  If I ever get these wedding invitations finalized then I  can share them!

Do you have any exclamation point-worthy tidbits to share?  Do it!