2012/2013

hello 2013, goodbye 2012.  for me, 2012 was a pretty great year. i got to finally marry the love of my life. we've made a few other changes, some good... some to the contrary. all in all, i would have to say i have at least had more up than downs in what seems like forever. i hope 2013 and expand that feeling even further into the future.  

this next year i hope to accomplish more goals. in 2012 i set what was probably an idiotic amount of goals for myself. most i would have never had time for while planning my wedding. see,  i'm very envious of the woman who seems to be able to get it all done. blogging, child raising, sewing projects, mastor home decorating, gourmet cooking accomplishments that i could never dream of, it's really just not me. at least not me now. we all have room for a little self improvement, right?

i'm sure i've said this a ridiculous amount of times, but i really hope to start blogging more. 
it's something i had hoped to start doing as soon as we were done with the wedding. i just found myself so burnt out on most things blog oriented, i really just needed to stay away. luckily i feel like i have the means, energy, and motivation to finally try a little harder this time. i hope to bring more content, to introduce a few things i haven't tried yet on the blog for the most part. so i hope you guys will stick around and see whats to come. 

stay tuned for a little wedding a new years eve fun!

xoxo
amelia 

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I'm coming back... and bringing someone with me this time. Stay tuned.

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24. Pressure

Valentines Day has too much pressure if you ask me. Whats the big deal? When I was single and in High School I always felt so ' oh, poor me blah blah', but that just gets old. The last few years its become a lot easier to just plan something low key. It turns out that it's usually the best way to actually enjoy the day ( even more so when it lands on a workday/night)! My Fiance and I kinda of love to be at home anyway, so it works for us.  Kinda males you realize you found the right guy, when all we need to do is be at home to be happy. <3 So after work the night consisted of me throwing a paper airplane love note across the office, beers after work, uno, and burgers ! All in all, a pretty awesome night. Don't you think? Here area  few Instagram photo's from the day. <3 

 My Handsome Valentine

He wants to 'Be Mine'

My attempt at making my all black outfit look Valentine's day appropriate. ( pink nails and jacket!) 

I hope everyone had a great day no matter how you choose to look at Valentine's Day. 

A/C

23. Girlie

Normally, I feel like dress a bit edgy, or even manly at times. That can tend to drive a girl into a serious style rut. I for one get tired of even my own ways of dressing after a few months of the same items in rotation. With spring on its way again ( seems to already be here in California) I wanted to embrace more girlie colors , soft lines, and flirty embellishments. I really loved ASOS's ( uhh do you pluralize that? haha)' Sitting Pretty ' spread, it pretty much embodied my need for adorable, feminine, yet still age appropriate clothing. I still think I would trow on a pair of black boots and leather jacket with most of these outfit. I still can't break my old habits. ;)

( all images from asos.com)

Happy to say I also recently picked my bridesmaid dresses from this store as well. Needless to say I'm a fan of the online retailer. 

Tomorrow marks 7 months till the best day of my life!!! As well as my handsome Fiance's 29th Birthday! Going to celebrate with some french food and a camping trip to , Big Basin on Friday!

A/C

22.

For some reason I had a really hard time trying to title today's post. So I opted not to! Oh well, can't win them all.

I wanted to talk about wedding dresses. Also the fact I finally bought mine! I don't know about you other girls out there, but that finding one was truly hard for me. Being the picky girl that I am, I knew this would be the case. With that in mind, I tried to prepare myself as well as possible by looking at as many dresses online as I could.The idea of buying a wedding dress actually terrified me. I was so afraid of picking something I would end up hating by my wedding day. ( I change my mind on an hourly basis about things mind you.) So this was by far the hardest of all the wedding decisions to make. Okay, maybe the guest list is harder. People REALLY like to invite themselves to weddings it turns out.

Back on topic. Exactly a year before our wedding, I tried on my first dresses. Visiting 3 places in 1 day, and coming out of it thinking I had found THE dress. WRONG! I'm glad after that day I decided to give myself a few months to ponder over it to make sure it was really the one. After a few weeks of not being able to bring myself to stop looking, I decided I actually really disliked the dress. It had elements I was looking for, but it wasn't me. So back to square one. 

A few more weeks go by, and now find myself actually avoiding going back. After a little push from my Fiance and a few phone calls to my Mom, aunt, and older sister I had my next appointment. I decided to go back to the first boutique I went to. They were having a Watters trunk show, and how can you pass up 10% off?!?! I couldn't! Well, my budget couldn't!

Knowing a little more about what I wanted I told them the dresses from the collection I had my eye on, so we grabbed a few and got started. 3 was my lucky number. The second I put the dress on, I just knew. It was exactly how they said it would be in all the stories. I don't think I had even made it out of the dressing room before my mind was made up. I was so upset having to take it off!

It's still a little hard to not look at pretty new dresses online, but I'm incredibly happy with my decision.

Sorry for such a lengthy post! I don't think I could have made it any shorter! I can't thank Christine and  Epiphany Boutique enough for how great of an experience I had. So fun and relaxing. It doesn't hurt she offers free alterations and a custom made veil with every dress purchase. A nice veil alone can cost you! If you click the link you can look at her blog and see the top half of my dress! So Greg, if you read this... NO PEAKING!! My sister and I are the second picture down!

Okay, I'll stop now. 

A/C

21. End Piracy

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To be honest, I would have blacked out the blog.. but I don't know how! So follow the link instead. 

A/C