Oh man I love this image so much. I love that it could be from the 20’s or 50’s just as easily as it could be from yesterday. Let’s plan for my wedding reception to look just like this one day, mmmkay?

Image c/o A Bryan Photo

I. Want. This. Dress. IwantthisdressIwantthisdressIwantthisdress. I have a lobster welcome dinner to attend this August, and, well, I hope you can see why this dress would come in handy. Two unfortunate points:

1. It is $138.
2. J laughed when we saw it in the store (apparently it is “funny looking”). Hmmph, what does he know. I was then unceremoniously ushered me out of Anthro so quickly I didn’t even get to try it on.

Any other lobstah dress lovers out there?

Fringing the woods, the stone walls, and the lanes,
Old thickets everywhere have come alive,
Their new leaves reaching out in fans of five
From tangles overarched by this year’s canes.

They have their flowers, too, it being June,
And here or there in brambled dark-and-light
Are small, five-petalled blooms of chalky white,
As random-clustered and as loosely strewn

As the far stars, of which we are now told
That ever faster do they bolt away,
And that a night may come in which, some say,
We shall have only blackness to behold.

I have no time for any change so great,
But I shall see the August weather spur
Berries to ripen where the flowers were —
Dark berries, savage-sweet and worth the wait —

And there will come the moment to be quick
And save some from the birds,and I shall need
Two pails, old clothes in which to stain and bleed,
And a grandchild to talk with while we pick.

–Richard Wilbur

Previously:
Hummingbird
Indian Summer at Lands End
Coda

P.S. Do you guys like the Friday poems? I started posting them in April for National Poetry Month, but I can keep going if y’all are enjoying them...

Y’all know K and C are go-o-o-o-o-ing to the chapel this August, which means it’s about time for a bridal shower! After some consideration, we decided to throw an alphabet shower, loosely inspired by Rebecca Thuss’ celebration. The idea is that the details are inspired by the bride’s name, and as Kate is the word-loving sort, we thought this would be appropriate. We have lots of fun deets up our sleeve (which I won’t be showing you until afterwards — sorry!), but I did want to share the invitations we just dropped in the mail.

I designed the labels in Microsoft Publisher, printed them, and then ran them through the Xyron, which turns them into stickers. The plan was to then punch the edges (as you can see above), but that step turned out to be excruciatingly painful…

…so most of them have plain edges, but I like to think they look “clean” this way.

The front, sans stamp.

The invite itself.

And the card explaining the alphabet gift system. I struggled over the wording, because I didn’t want it to seem like we were assuming people would bring gifts, but we also thought it would be fun to include the gift-giving portion of the shower in the theme. What do you think — did I do okay? Would this card make sense to you if you were invited?