in the thick of it

So, I am without Internet most of the time this summer, as evidenced by the fact my last post was a month ago.  That's one reason I haven't written.  The other reason is that I'm getting married in September.  Which is, well, soon.

me & my husband-to-be

See, I've had friends get married & have heard them exclaim through their murky fog of stress, anxiety, and advance planning, "it's so much work!"  and have thought to myself, "bah.  can't be that much work."  But now that I'm in the thick of the aforementioned fog, ah, there's the rub.  It's even more work than my friends let on.  Preparing for a wedding is a crazy thing.  You're throwing a one-shot party for the most important folks in your life and you know in advance that you'll remember it forever.  I'm suddenly spending hours deciding on a certain precise shade of blue, cutting out fabric leaf shapes for handmade boutonnières, designing a wedding logo, trying out different updos, choosing cake toppers, and the list goes on.  Luckily I love to make things and do graphic design and paw through decor magazines and daydream about personalized touches to traditional events.  A lot of it is trying to strike a fine balance between DIY-until-you-fall-down-dead and spending-yourself-into-a-black-hole-of-debt.  Either you have time or you have money, right?

me at the PEI Pottery Studio making tiles for our wedding favours

a sneak peek at our wedding favour tiles!

Anyway, it's no big news that summer is a busy time on PEI, no matter what your jam is.  Somehow we carve out an afternoon here & there to go to the beach, sit on the deck with friends, lay in the hammock, work in the garden.  And thank goodness for that, because when my stress levels get high, all I want to do is putter about in my garden & make cocktails using my freshly grown herbs.  Luxurious relaxation techniques that will no doubt come in handy as we get closer and closer....