Wedding Stuff...

Dayton Learning Center...the chosen reception spot!

My beautiful ring...Dietrich's will be the same design in silver.

Valley Friends Meeting House...for the ceremony...a lot of decorating will be at hand.

The colors for the bridesmaids' dresses...the red and green are a bit darker than they appear in the pic.

The same fabrics...but scanned. The dark olive is for Dietrich's pants, the Dark brown for the front of the vest, and the light olive the back of the vest.

Tangible progress is taking place on the wedding planning front. On the way back from Pennsylvania last weekend we took our time, stopping at thrift stores, fabric outlets, and a park. It was good to relax together and discuss wedding planning and the future.

The trip was highly successful as far as being relaxing, fun, and productive. We found fabric for Dietrich's dress vest and pants, my dress, and our bridesmaids' dresses! We also got to watch an amazing lightning show, eat some good chinese, and take a nap at a great park in Berkeley Springs.

Thursday and Friday the sewing began. Dietrich's really gaining ground on his pants and I've been working on his vest. I haven't used a pattern for sewing since I was fifteen so that's been a little overwhelming for both of us, but we're pretty good at knowing when to take breaks to have fun.

Snowperson Meets Untimely Death

Once upon a time....there was a day of reckoning for unnamed Snowperson. There appeared to be a homicide on Old South High Street at the local "Peace House".

As you can see, it was a gruesome death involving a hoe and not a little bit of alcohol

The gender of the conquered snowperson was thrown into question by this ominous photograph

Who did such a heinous act, we shall never know

Later, this man was apprehended and brought down with a snowball to the face. According to most reports he was drunk and a little, you know, cuck-coo.

Unfortunately, all the evidence sank into the ground in the following days.

Abigail's latest crafting...

This is my first attempt at a crazy quilt...probably the most time consuming project I've yet to take on. I made it for the new baby of the family I nanny for.

Here is big brother, Simon, receiving it happily.

Dietrich's Birthday gifts...

Simon and I picked up bottle caps for months to cover this guy.

A newly upholstered Gift and Thrift find.

Dietrich playing in the Charlottesville Pavilion on the way to the Groove Train concert

...and Anita too!

I guess this was our "groovy pose."

Mennofolk

So here we are, getting ready to go out on the town for a night of partying at Night Out OCP!! Try and guess which outfit was homemade...

Thanksgiving...Spurrier/Ewing style.

Here we are dressed up for Abigail's roommate's 30th birthday extravaganza. Joanne wrote a play and we acted it out in the living room for ourselves...great fun. Dietrich was a bumbling midevil farmer and Abigail was a sewing wench.