honeymustard and faith

Last night, during a meeting of fellow Christians, I learned something about my faith that I had not admitted to myself in a long time - there are times when I am a whitewashed tomb. I put on a facade and convince myself of my closeness to Christ that isn't really there. A relationship consists of two people investing. My relationship with Joshua is slowly teaching me that I have trouble investing. So, in order to begin practicing investing in him and showing him I love him very much, I am going to head over to Panino and buy us both a turkey, brie, basil, and honeymustard sandwich on ciabatta, and take it to him to enjoy.

thinking of a title is hard

and keeping the same design for my blog is harder. i got tired of the old one, went to the design tab, found the simplest one i could, and am now using that instead.

on a completely different note, i have now solidified a friend to help out with flowers and make my tables look something similar to this:



i am also in the process of painting some glass jars blue to add a little vintage to the glass. more on that later.

so far

there are a total of 13 people that have RSVPed for the wedding. ya... its going to be a crazy party.

yo quiero

What I would really like as a gift from Mr. Joshua Pritchett...

A really nice camera.
That way, I can take really nice pictures. Or go to a really nice class to learn how to take really nice pictures. Really nicely.

side note: it will definitely benefit him too. in his heart, i know he loves art and design as much as i do.

oxford goodness

I am interested in wearing these for my wedding. Any thoughts?

bling

For Christmas, I got ambitious. I decided to make Leslie the bracelet that was on her list instead of buy it from StellaDot for around $100.00, which is just too ridiculous.
I ended up scouring the internet trying to find the necessary pieces to make the bracelet... after I drove around Santa Barbara to find stores that used to be jewelry stores, but turned out to be newly made into adult stores. Yup.
Eventually, I turned to my aunt, who happens to make jewelry for fun and has a store on Etsy. She graciously found me all the necessary pieces, and I spent a lovely wintery, San Jose afternoon to make her bracelet. It turned out awesome.







Also, this is the Babooshka (sp?) that my mom gave to me and the sisters for kitmas. I'm a fan.

best solutions

new years best solutions.

last night, i could not sleep. it was strange... but i don't actually ever remember falling asleep deeply and waking up from those depths. i seemed to be in a waking sleep the whole night. images ran through my head constantly, and my mind would not stop processing everything going on in my life. while i am normally rather protective of my sleep time, last night's escapades took me through some troublesome thoughts and forced me to process some things i had been avoiding. after the battle, i began to see the lack of love i have been showing to my friends, my family, and my God.

loneliness stems from selfishness.