The creative juices are flowing!!!!

As I posted a few days ago, I will be getting back into scrapbooking.  I am so excited about this that I signed up for two swaps.  For those of you who don't know what a swap is, a swap is where you sign up to make a predetermined amount of one thing.  You send what you made to the hostess and she swaps your items to the other members of your group and you will get one from those members as well.  The swaps I signed up for are for 12x12 scrapbook pages.  I signed up under three catagories, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  I have to make 3+1 for each catagory.  The total I have to make is 12 pages for each swap.  That's right folks, that is a grand total of 24 pages!  The two swaps are the same and I signed up for the same catagories (I want to have pleanty of pages in each catagory) the only difference in these two swaps is the deadline date.  The first one is due Nov. 30th and the second one is due January 15th. 

I have already sketched two designs and I have one layout that I made several years ago that I plan on copying.  When I finish the pages, I will upload the original sketch and the finish product and review each page. 

Now when I go home, I need to take account of my current inventory and make a shopping list so that I can go to the scrapbook store on Friday.  I can't wait!  I haven't stepped foot in a scrapbooking store for a long time! 

Till next time I blog, have a great day!

What to do now???

Well, it has been three weeks since Mr. Teddybear and I were married.  I'm having a bit of a hard time because I no longer have a wedding to plan so I have free time on my hands.  Well several things have come up to help fill up my time.

I have been mulling over the idea of becoming a wedding planner/coordinator.  This has always been in the back of my mind for several years but up until now, I haven't had a real good opportunity to jump start my wedding planning/coordinating business.  Well my neice will be getting married in a year, actually she is getting married the day before Mr. Teddybear and I did, but a year later.  I have offered my services to her for free.  I also plan on taking classes and getting certified by the Association of Bridal Consultants and attending seminars for the wedding profession.  I don't know how it will turn out, but the first seminar I want to take is not until September 2011 in Vegas.  I plan on attending, it will be a working vacation for me and Mr. Teddybear.  If you have any ideas or suggestions that would help make my business better, or would help me offer the best to my clients, please leave a comment and let me know.  I want to make this a success and give my brides and grooms the best that I can offer.

The other item that I have been excited to mull over is getting back into scrapbooking.  I have not been scrapbooking for about 5 years now.  This was due to me going to school mainly but also have personal issues to deal with.  I am excited to get back into it.  I have taken an inventory of my supplies and have decided to get rid of 90% of my stamps at our next yard sale.  This is to purge my old stuff and to get a few new tools as well. I have ideas running through my head and write them down so that I don't forget.  I'm so happy to do this again and can't wait to start working on my wedding album and our family album.

I can't wait for the new year to begin and to start and to get my two new ideas into motion!  2010 was a good year, but 2011 is going to be even better!!!

My wedding in review.

I was hoping to be able to post a blog reviewing my wedding and including professional pictures, but I'm not able to get them for another week.  So, I will do my review and use the non-professional pictures I have received.

THE GOOD

There were several good things that happened at my wedding.  I was really worried that it would go by so fast that it would be a blur to me, but thankfully it didn't.

1.  The weather - On October 3rd, we had wonderful weather for an outside ceremony.  It was perfect weather and the church custodian was able to get all of our chairs in the shade and no one sat in the direct sun.  It was exactly how I envisioned it! 

My daughter giving me away. (photo credit to Maria E.)

2.  The Florist - Orie and Evie, Flowers by Orie, did a wonderful job on our flowers.  They worked within our budget and was able to give us exactly what we wanted.  I love the aisle pomanders and the arch decor and they did a magnificent job on the centerpieces.  I loved my bouquet and my girls bouquets too.

Centerpieces with table numbers.

3.  Church Custodian - Billy is an awesome dude!  He understood the look we were going for with the layout for the ceremony and he did it the exact way we wanted!  He also had everything set up at the reception the way we wanted to as well.

4.  Photographer - Tonya, Moments to Embrace Photography, and her assistant Steve, were fabulous photographers!  Tonya was awesome with me and my girls and Mr. Teddybear raved about how Steve got the craziness of Mr. Teddybear and his bestman.  Mr. Teddybear loved how Steve captured their zaniness and Steve showed me some of the pictures.  They were pretty funny.  Steve took some pictures of me too and I loved how they came out.  I will post my favorite ones once I get the professional pictures back.  I'm excited and can't wait to see them!!!

THE BAD

1.  The caterer - Sal Gallardo, La Fiesta Taco Catering.  What can I say about this company?  They did not live up to their contract.  His employee, the chef, arrived 1 1/2 hour late than what was contracted and this led to a sloppy presentation of the food on the tables and our guests and Mr. Teddybear and I had to wait to eat.  I had planned to have the food served at 3:30pm, not 5pm.  Besides cooking the tacos, we were supposed to also to get quesadillas.  Well the chef never made them.  When Mr. Teddybear confronted him about it, he said that he offered it to everyone in the line.  Well we know for a fact that he never offered it to us, the bride and groom!  I have also asked several of our guests and they have all responded that it was NEVER offered to them either.  I have emailed Sal Gallardo giving him the details of what happen and requested a partial refund, but have yet to hear back from him.  I will also file a complaint about this catering company with the Better Business Bureau.  We will see how that turns out.  I will also be posting negative reviews about this company and their unprofessionalism on other wedding sites.  I would hate to have another bride and groom to go through what we did.  I was very embarrased and unhappy with the service from La Fiesta Taco Catering, their chef and Mr. Sal Gallardo gave us.

 MORE PHOTOS!

Here are more non-professional pictures:

CD Favor/placecard

Cake Topper

Winners of the Bethany 500 going down Marriage Lane!

Cutting our cake.

 

Me and my Dad!

Bridal Group photo!

Elena walking me down the aisle.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanard!!

My Mom, Brother with Mr. Teddybear and I.

Mr. Teddybear and his Grandma.

Mr. Teddybear and his Mom!

Well that's all folks!  As soon as I get my professional pictures, I will post our favorites!

Have a great Monday!!