The notices for this week

At church yesterday our pastor decided to dedicate a page of the notice sheet to our wedding ;-)

To quote Len Goodman...

* Len Goodman is a judge on Strictly Come Dancing who has an exuberant way of saying "seven"!

My kind of afternoon

I had a lovely hen do on Saturday organised by Jenny, with lots of my friends there.

It didn't involve excessive alcohol or silly clothes (with the exception of these beautifully stylish glasses...) - instead Jenny took me to Mitchells in Sutton Coldfield. It's essentially a posh shopping centre, with little shops throughout an old farm complex and a lovely café - sorry - bistro.

We started off with a meal in the Farmhouse Bistro, then we went to Cafe Ceramica to do some pottery painting. It was very relaxing and we spent a couple of hours in there choosing what to paint and playing with designs.

After we'd finished the painting we had to leave the pottery to be fired and glazed - Jenny will collect it and distribute it at the wedding - and then we had a mooch around the shops for a bit.

Some of my friends had travelled a way to be at the afternoon, so they had to get back. The rest of us (me, Jenny, sister-in-law and Jenny's sister) went back to Jenny's to eat Chinese takeaway and watch In the Night Garden (! while Jenny's niece and nephew got ready for bed) and then Coyote Ugly.

It was a lovely day and definitely my kind of afternoon.

Mitchells
Weeford Rd, Sutton Coldfield, B75 6NA
w: www.mitchellsshopping.com

Farmhouse Bistro
e: info@farmhousebistro.co.uk
t: 0121 323 3658
w: www.farmhousebistro.co.uk

Cafe Ceramica
e: julie@cafeceramica.com
t: 0121 308 3984
w: www.cafeceramica.com

Coming closer

Remember you're a Womble...

We were looking at cake toppers for the wedding cake and darling beardy man complained that they were all too soppy and not at all suitable. I was feeling a bit creative, so I decided to make our own, and to make them as Wombles*.

 

When I told Mom that I'd made Wombles she didn't understand why and said we'd have to explain. So explanation coming up:

Darling beardy man likes to make things, particularly cars, and likes to find as many bits as possible for free or very cheap. His habit of reusing other people's rubbish led to him getting the nickname 'Womble', and so when I met the group of friends who use that nickname, some of them were calling me Mrs Womble.

The cake toppers meant I could also let darling beardy man wear the orange overalls he'd been threatening without him actually wearing the orange overalls!

* Womble: (1) fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways; (2) darling beardy man.

This time next month...

It's getting closer!

Counting down

A friend told me yesterday "you know tomorrow it's 10 weeks to go". It was scary and exciting to hear that, but then when I looked at the calendar today I realised he was wrong - it's not 10 weeks to go, it's actually 9!

How the parents cope

My parents have two very different approaches to the organisation of the wedding.

My Mom is very much a list-maker, and she has dozens of pieces of paper filled with lists, dates, contact details, things to do and questions to ask. My Dad joked last week that the whole upstairs of their house was pull of pieces of paper!

Dad, on the other hand, seems to be very laid back about it all and is happy to take a back seat unless we particularly ask him to do something for us.

I think I fall somewhere in the middle of the two. I do have lists, but certainly not as many as Mom. It would be impossible to take a back seat in the organisation, but I don't think I'm worrying about things as much as Mom is - although lovely beardy man may disagree!

What not to wear

Lovely beardy man has been threatening to wear a boiler suit for the wedding - his reasoning being that since I said he has to wear a new suit, he could use a new boiler suit anyway. We've bougt him a waistcoat now, but he's still threatening to just wear it under the boiler suit!

In return I've told him my dress is a beautiful, huge, pink blancmange of a dress, complete with fairy lights around the bottom. I was bored last night so I Googled 'pink wedding dresses' just to see what would come up. The results were... interesting... :-)