9 days to go!

9 days to go now! Starting to get excited / nervous. Trying not to stress out over every little thing and just enjoy it, which is hard because I always stress over things.

The hens night went pretty well, got hugely embarrassed because I had to dress up and go to the restaurant wearing this outfit but apart from that it was good. Dinner was yum. I had seafood chowder for my entree and scallops and salad for my main (entree sized though).

I picked up the marriage licence yesterday too so thats all set, and our celebrant is coming over tonight to sort out the ceremony so that will be good to get that all sorted.

and the napkins are all finished, the placecards all finished, I know what i'm having on the tables, the chocolate boxes are started...so things are falling into place. I cant believe that it will all be over next sunday! its crazy, doing all this work and spending money just for one day. Oh well it will be worth it. and I will always have the photos to remember it by.

oh and Steve wants me to say a speech at the wedding too, mainly just thanking people for things if he forgets to. I dont really want to but I guess sometimes you have to do things you dont like to do! But i really HATE speaking in front of other people, I hate having everyones attention on me. (LOL and I'm going to have a full day of people watching me and taking photos - not my idea of fun!) I'm just way too shy and self conscious, thats why I didnt like people looking at me dressed up funny on saturday. It makes me feel so uncomfortable and nervous and then I feel like everyone is watching me and I dont have fun. I must be paranoid or something.

But the house is clean, had a big cleaning session on saturday (one of my bridesmaids stayed the night) and in preparation for the best man who arrives on tuesday to stay with us for a week.

My hair looks pretty good, so nice to not have regrowth! But it was far too expensive....sigh....the price you pay for looking good I guess.

The stag do is next wednesday so the boys are trying to plan that. So far I think they are going paintball shooting and then having a bbq at our place. Steve doesnt really want to go into town and go drinking but one of the groomsmen is really keen on that so we will see. They better not get a stripper though or heads will roll :P especially if they are just staying at our place, theres no way im having a stripper in the house!! and Steve doesnt want one either, but who knows what the guys will do. Im a bit nervous about the whole thing actually, especially because its only a couple of days before the wedding I dont want something to happen. I've heard way too many nasty stories about what goes on at stag do's.

Anyways while I was cleaning up I found some of my cd's with my photos on them so I will do another post soon with some more photos. :)

16 days and counting!

Ok so its now only 16 days until the wedding! So im kind of freaking out and at the same time really looking forward to it. I mean it is a big deal, a huge deal in fact!

Mum is so funny, I was talking to her the other day after seeing them and she asked was I ok because I didnt look very happy...."your not having second thoughts are you" LOL I was like no mum im fine, no second thoughts I was just grumpy and hot (i mean come on the humidity was like 98%) and hungry and tired...not a good combination!

Applied for my marriage licence today so can go pick that up on tuesday. Phew another thing ticked off the list (and a rather major one!) cant have a wedding without it! And paid some more money off the suit hire, so everything is coming together slowly. Just got to finish paying for the flowers and photographer and do little bits and pieces like sort out what table decorations we are having, buy the beer, table seating arrangements (seriously its like putting together a puzzle - the pieces all have to fit together well!!), oh and sort out our vows. But thats not a biggie, Steve wants to have as short a ceremony as possible and will probably just go with the traditional sort of vows. I was going to have a sand ceremony but im not sure if i will now, basically because i dont have the sand and stuff ready for it! we will see.

Its my hens night on saturday too, we are just going out for dinner and then going back to my house where the bridesmaids have got something planned, games and stuff I presume. Not sure if we are planning on going into town and having a couple of drinks or not, but I have said I dont want a list of things to do, I get embarrassed too easily and then I dont have fun. And after all the hens night is about having fun! But it should be great. so because its at my house too it means i have to actually CLEAN the house! Shouldnt be too hard if i get stuck in tonight, cant do it saturday morning because I have a hair appointment - first time I have been to the hairdresser in a year!!! and im in serious need of some colour, have very bad regrowth going on.

So yeah, thats that!

Paintings

Hmm the last post I did has shown up below some of the other posts even though I only did it yesterday? weird.....

I was going to put up some more pictures of photos I have taken but I cant find any right now!

So instead here are a couple of childrens paintings I have done. Was hoping to try and sell them (had them on trademe for awhile) but didnt have much interest :( Might try again sometime soon.

These two I painted for my nephew when he was born

I'm thinking about trying to learn how to paint in watercolours. The paintings I did are all in acrylics, and it was just a starting point really. I might take some classes sometime (when I can get some money!) and learning how to really paint properly.

Ideally I would like to paint like this: (I love Thomas Kincade paintings!!)

Or like this:

i know those arent done in watercolours, but this one is.

But I think you get the idea :)

I WANT

sigh

have just found out that the camera I want is going to cost me $3299. Thats just a TAD out of my price range!!!

oh but I LOVE it....and just think of the photos I could take with it!

The camera is a Canon 50D DSLR

I might just have to start with the 1000D or 450D or something and then once I sell some pictures / take pictures for people (this is in my ideal world that people will pay me for photos!) then I will be able to afford the 50D. Or maybe I should just start outright with the 50D so then I will be able to take decent photos that people will actually buy??? Hmmm what to do what to do....

my kitty

So I thought I would post a couple of pictures of my kitty Pebbles :) we got her from the SPCA nearly 2 years ago now.

This is the picture that I first saw of her in the newspaper advertising her, she was just so cute I fell in love with her instantly.

And this is her with daddy, she loves her cuddles! (well mostly)

Had to take her to the vet on Saturday actually as she had a cut between a couple of her claws on her paw which was a bummer, not something I really needed right now! And I'm sure she didnt really need it either! But she was pretty good about it.

So thats my little fur baby! Will post some more pictures of her later.

Photos

I thought I had better put up some of my photos that I have taken with my little Fujifilm Finepix camera that mum and dad got me for my 21st. Double rainbow shot just on sunset, it hadn't been raining and I was outside looking at the sky when this rainbow and reflection showed up

Sunset taken at my parents farm


Sunset off our deck


Waipu Cove, Northland looking towards the Whangarei Heads - the best beach ever!


Armeria or Sea Thrift

Flowering cherry tree

Toon Tree

I have heaps more photos to put up but im still getting used to this whole thing so bear with me!

Wedding eeeek

I'm getting married in 22 days!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited! I can't wait!

I've pretty much got all the details sorted, except for what I'm having as table decorations, and doing the whole seating chart and last minute details such as folding the table napkins, making placecards etc.

The only big thing is I still havent got my marriage licence yet! So I really need to get on to that, as without it there won't be a wedding! I wonder if they are open tomorrow......

Ohh I can't wait to see my fiancee in his suit, hes going to look GREAT

So this is the bridesmaids dresses:

And this is my dress (although it looks much better on me ;) )

So...this is me.

Thought I had better finally get on the blog-wagon, so here I am!

I'm Heather, a mid 20 something living in New Zealand.

I have a lot of things that are a part of my heart, the main one being family and my lovely soon to be hubby, my kitty and my friends spread all over the world. I also love nature - flowers, animals, sunsets and sunrises, the beach, the weather, the night sky. I love photography, painting (hoping to get better at both things soon), I start up lots of craft projects and never get around to finishing them! - one day I will! I want to travel and see all the wonderful things in this world, I want to have children and give them a life like I have had, I want to start new things and make my own world a better place. I love good food. I love a lot of things!

I Love Life.

So and this blog is about my life and all the things I love :)

And on that cheesy note I had better get it started!