Ramblings of Renovating Part I: Bathroom

Well my friends, I am beginning to wrap up the major house renovations Dingo and I have undertaken the past few months. I am in love with the results and with a few tweaks here and there (with a little help from our registry) I think everything will be like a brand new home for newlyweds to enjoy. Even the garden coming along quite nicely. But first, I will share the newly renovated bathroom. It was so gross (the color) that I couldn't post the before pics because I just didn't take any. So here you have the result.

FIL to-be added a new light fixture, taking out some ugly outdated old ones and created a better fixture for curling irons and such.

My MIL to-be bought the IKEA extendable mirror and had the best idea of using brighter lights to take the struggle out of putting on my make up.

I used a frame found at Goodwill by MIL to-be and reframed a print of Chicago's Water Tower and the two of us painted the ceilings a sandy brown. I INSISTED the blue ceiling so that it would feel like I was sitting at the ocean while taking a bath. I love it.

Urban Outfitter's additions to Mimi's Online Registry

I have strange tastes at times so I am continuing my own Online Registry with some selections for Urban Outfitters. LOVE this site!

Fantastic pillow that incorporates all of the colors of our newly renovated "den"... the Underground Sign is too good to pass up.
Yes, I love Pac Man (it's and oven mitt!) and anything
that makes cooking fun is good in my book.

For Dingo, a nice "iced invaders" ice cube tray... these seems to be the perfect size cubes too.

I better learn to darn my husband's stockings.... better get this too.

Thanks you Ladies!!!!

To thank all the women in my bridal party, (and for selfish reasons as well) I am throwing a 1154 Lill Studio purse party! This is just like your Grandmother's Tupperware partys except you design your own hand bag. They have many styles to choose from including, hobos, makeup bags, diaper bags, and jewelry roll ups. I am so excited to be doing this because I think it will be a hit! Take a look at what you can do and a few of my favorite styles.....

1154 Lill Studio

Charlotte

Breanna

Christie
Grace (my own design)

Flowers for the bride and bridesmaids....

I fell in love with this bouquet from a wedding featured on Snippet and Ink from Brooklyn Bride over six months ago when we started planning. The only difference is that mine will have tiny sunflowers for my golden highlights and thistle to pull in some lavendar.

THE bouquet I love....

Thistle

Sunflowers!

{images: Brooklyn Bride, unknown, unknown.}

Pretty Bridesmaids.....

Well, my bridesmaid's are finished choosing their attire and I am so excited that they will be ordered soon that I had to post the ladies' choices. Each dress will is made by Bill Levkoff and is made of tissue taffeta. Our colors are garnet and champagne so each dress will be in their wine color.

Lish, Bridesmaid

Mrs. B, Bridesmaid

Sweet 'n Low, Bridesmaid

Y-Mar, the Matron of Honor

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Hump Day....

" Spring is here! On with the weekend already!"

A quick glimpse at another photo from my Fantastic Mysterious Forward. Again, I don't know who to give kudos to on this one, other than one of my bridesmaid's who sent it to me, but here it is. I will be busy for a couple days getting outside and getting my hands dirty so please forgive the short posts. Cheers!

OfficeTally Giveaway

"What are these Dunder Mifflinites looking at?"

Head to OfficeTally, my favorite blog of all time if you know the answer and are interested in winning a shirt worn by the cast during the taping of the season finale. Good Luck! But, not too good, cause I AM GONNA WIN!!! Check out the site for specific details.... I don't won't to mess those up on ya.

Etsy Finds: Party darn cute cake toppers....

I love spending hours on Esty. So many unique handmade items. I love all the personalities of custome cake toppers out there and though I myself and going with something quite traditional I wanted to share may favorite's of my Etsy "Favorite Finds". Enjoy!

{image:buildersstudio @ Etsy}

{image: CornFlakeGirl @ Etsy}

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Not much to say...

... so I'll take the time to a share a series of photos I received in a Fantastic Mysterious Forward. I don't have any idea who took some of these shots, so if you do... please comment so I can give kudos. This one is just precious. Such a sucker for animals, I am. This reminds me of something you would see in a "pick me up" book such as the Blue Day book that hit stands years ago.


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Take joy in registering....

Sigh... I thought I would love registering. As it turns out, I don't. Dingo and I take quite some time coming to some really basic decisions and it is one time I feel like those feuding couple you see in the mall. My solutions.... ONLINE registering. However, because there are just some things you would love I think I will create an online registry on this here blog. Starting with all of the things I love from Bas Bleu: Bookseller by Post. The gift that keeps giving is of course their membership!

Dingo and I really want to travel the world, and I have become a bit competitive about seeing as many places as he has so I think this handsomely framed Map of Travels would be pretty neat on the "study" wall.

I just love the cards of kissing animals so I had to post them. I want to get good ol' snail mail back in style so I get more than bills in the mail.

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