One of the new perks of our new office at Mason Zimbler is the sweet duck pond that you can walk to whenever you need to stretch your legs and take a nice stroll outside. Be on the look out for those two geese in the back, word on the street is that they’ll bully you for your lunch money.
Last weekend we when to our first registry at Crate & Barrel! Overall, it was a pretty fun experience. We showed up early in the morning before the store was open to the public and we got to go in and mosey around. We got there before the rest of the couples so we had some time to kill before things got started. Crate & Barrel did a good job setting up and even provided coffee, baked goods and a cake tasting. We didn’t taste any cake since it was 9 a.m. in the morning and felt that maybe breakfast tacos might have been a better choice.
I used the Crate & Barrel iPhone app instead of the scanner, which to my disappointment wasn’t even the scanner that you see in all the movies that is shaped like a gun so you can shoot everything you want. We found a few things that we liked and didn’t try to go too crazy by only focusing on the essential things that we felt that we would need when we official embark on our married life together.
Flowers from my perma-valentine:
Funny hearts:
My always and forever:
Pie insights into my soul:
The guy and I have been so productive today, and its only the afternoon. We went to the gym, made a nice breakfast, and have done so much wedding organizing! I just ordered a dress to try (ahhhh!), and ordered a bunch of paper for our save the dates.
Temporary tattoos for weddings? Awesome? I am going with yes. (this one found here)
My job involves sitting at a desk all day. Exciting, right!?
One of my co-workers and I decided to try using a standing desk instead, which is really just a tall table that we put our computers on. I feel like it is pretty well known now that sitting all day isn’t all that good for your body. We have been using our standing desk for a couple weeks, and I can say that my back feels soo much better. My feet hurt a bit sometimes depending on my shoes, but I feel 100 times better at the end of the day.
Our next idea is to get a treadmill desk!
Have you ever tried a standing desk? What did you think?
As most people know, the girl and I are in the midst of some major wedding planning efforts! It’s been pretty fun so far and the girl has taken the lead on lending her creativity to designing our save the dates and wedding invitations. So to spark some creativity, we went down to the Paper Source the other week here in Austin. It’s a pretty cool store and it seemed like they had a paper for any occasion!
The two below are ones I found as I was flipping through a huge binder of wedding invitation samples that caught my eye and I kind of liked because I respect a good font and color combo.
I found a new way to carry my empty travel coffee mug home from work. It made me pretty happy inside for no real reason other than the fact that it’s always important to enjoy the little things in life. And it let me be hands-free to text the girl when I leave the office.
I love coffee and I have been lucky enough to have been able to introduce the girl to the joy of coffee and now we drink it together every morning (which is always one of the best parts of my day). While at work the other day, I was making some coffee and I was making some Starbuck’s Pikes Place coffee and it reminded me of the girl and our wedding planning efforts because we’re planning on getting married in her hometown which is some-what nearby and I got to thinking…it would be super cool if you could make your own personal “brand” of coffee and get custom coffee pods that you crafted your own flavor and taste to.
Is this something that is already done? If not, I claim the rights to this idea right now.
Have you ever played with mural.ly? It is designed for online visual collaborations. I used it once a few months ago, and when I was trying to imagine wedding colors, it came to my mind again. The guy can’t imagine colors quite as easily as I can, so I wanted to make something visual that he could play around with.
I started by taking screenshots of individual color swatches. I used the cute heart swatches from here. I added them into a mural.ly board, and then started mixing and matching! It made it super easy to move colors around and try different combinations, compare the “feel” of each palette, and it was much easier for the guy to see what I was talking about.
I don’t know if the people at mural.ly envisioned the tool being used for wedding planning, but I could definitely see myself narrowing down my wedding pinterest board into one mood board to share with the guy for inspiration!
I am lucky that I babysit two of the cutest kids in the world. I have known them since they were born, so it has been a treat to watch them grow into tiny 4-year-old and 2-year-old people.
Little Miss Zoe was a no-brainer here, since she loves pink and girly things, which is perfect for a flower girl. She already thinks she gets to be a princess in the wedding.
But Noah was a bit of a thinker. There are no good ring-bearer things, since weddings are a little girly anyway, and two-year-old boys like cars and throwing things. So I came up with a little dump truck, and went with the “carry” theme. Get it???
guy and his girl 