Finally here!

Yesterday it finally arrived :) 

Happiness and inspiration all around.

Today, it is raining. Light rain. Fresh and clean air. Umbrellas against the sky. Rain boots playing on puddles. Jackets and cardigans out of the closets. Happy faces.

Enjoy Fall!

Waiting for you, Fall

Yes, I can't wait for the summer to finish! I'm a bit tired of it. I want to go for a walk and say: "oh, it's chilly outside, let's wear a cute cardigan". 

I confess I'm a fan of Fall, of watching leaves falling off the trees, of wearing long sleeve, of the smell in the streets after a rainy day, of using new books, of starting new classes...

This is going to be a special Fall for me. It's going to be my last Fall in Spain for a long time, I guess. And I'm excited because a friend told me that Fall is even more amazing there in the US, changes are more obvious and nice. Can't wait to live that! (of course, my friend loves Fall too ;)

I haven't post for a while, but I'll post more during Fall, it's way more inspiring to me!

Wedding Wednesday

I want to share with you some details of my wedding, little things that one cannot appreciate in regular pictures. All of the pictures were taken by friends and relatives.

Related to me, the bride

Related to the wedding

Wedding Wednesday

(on Tuesday, I couldn't wait any longer)

And the big day arrived. July 9, 2011. We got married!

It was a wonderful day that we enjoyed until the end. Our family and friends were there supporting us on that big step we were about to make. And we did it. And it was great. And we are now living together in Texas.

This is the step by step of that day (pictures taken by my friends and relatives):

 

 

* Following the Spanish tradition, the Best Man came to my parents' place and read something nice to me before giving me the bouquet.

* The priest was a friend of mine, he let us pick everything for the ceremony and apart from that he wrote our story in a poem, the longest and nicest poem I have ever read. Thank you so much, Manel!

* It may be weird but nobody took pictures during the dance... I'll post some when I received the official ones :)

Five Sunday Favourites #7

Today's five are all from J. Crew:

1. I have just fallen in love with this sweater

2. Thinking about buying it to wear it in my cousin's wedding

3. Nice shorts

4. Sweet shoes!

5. I love love love this cardigan! It has to be mine!

Wedding Wednesday

Here you are the final wedding invitations. We have already given them to all our guests so now I can proudly show them to you. They are 100% handmade: designed, trimmed, sewn, cut, and printed at home.

We made the invitation itself, a map to get to the place, and a card with our contact information.

The text was printed on onion skin paper, and hand sewn to lace fabric (similar to the one used to make my dress) with green embroidery yarn.

We also sent a "Save The Date", but we did it by email. Here is how it looked:

The countdown starts today: 10 days to the Big Day :)

Have a nice Wednesday!!!

Back to the real world

I finished my exams last Thursday, and that means that I'm officially on HOLIDAYS! Yay! I needed them to arrive so bad, it has been a hard year. Honestly I have to say that these last five exams are the first ones that I feel I am going to pass since I started my studies, cool, but weird, maybe I'm becoming more optimistic, maybe it's just the wedding air that surrounds me that makes me feel like that. Who nows?

Ok, what to do now? Definitely, focus on the wedding. Some things are not done yet... 

Like what? Like the kits I want to make for the kids coming to the wedding for them not to get bored. They always finished their food faster than adults so I think that having on their table some drawing, creative kits would be perfect. I am sewing a bag for each of them with some supplies and putting together some paper, glue, crayons, pencils, drawing and blank paper, among other fun stuff.

I also have to go buy some bubble soap and order the petals our guests are going to throw to us when we get out of the church, finish the favours (this will be done three days before the wedding because we don't want chocolate to melt :), and right now I cannot think of anyhing else, but I'm sure I am missing something...

Anyway, I have to go back to my sewing machine. 

Have a nice sunday everyone!