Earring Crisis

These are the earrings that I purchased for the wedding, and I LOVE them, bought them on ebay for under $10- including shipping!


But, look at these beauties from J Crew- my colors are all things fall- reds, brown-yellows, wouldn't these be perfect? Plus they are a little more....what, I don't know what they are, but I LURV them. Con- they are $55

Keep the old one's or suck it up and buy the bad @ss ones from J Crew? Oh and my ring is gold- the first earrings are silver and the second ones are gold, so they may look better. I'm just wearing a simple strand of my grandmother's pearls, so they won't clash with anything the other jewelry.

What to do, what to do.....

The Abduction Lamp

find it here

Family Reunion

This is a family reunion on paternal grandmother's side. My grandmother is the one in the front center with the curly hair and the bow on her head. She was born in 1907, so this was maybe 1910-1912?

More pictures like this can be found at my other blog Photos from Catherine

3401 E Calhoun Blvd. Minneapolis, MN

This is the house my great-grandfather Abaer built. It's probably a multi-million dollar house now, if it's even still there. I looked up the area and it is RIGHT on Lake Calhoun. I'm going to go drive by it when I'm home and bring this picture (Katie, tell me what you see if you beat me to it!!!) My great-grandfather was diagnosed with TB in the first part of the 20th century and was sent to a hospital in North Carolina. My Grandmother used to tell me stories about when he was gone. She was very close to him and it was incredibly hard on her, and the family also. It made her mother a single parent. I imagine that was hard in 1915. I actually have some of the postcards that he sent her from the hospital, I'll scan them and post them at a later date. He died of influenza when there was an epidemic that swept the country. There was only one nurse that survived in the entire hospital where he was staying. Did that story just melt you face? It did mine the first time I heard it. And if you knew my grandmother, I heard that story about 50 times, but I always thought it was one of the more interesting ones.

Ahhhhhhhhh

my great uncle Bud..... I'm scanning in all the old pictures I have inherited. Check out all the era markers in the shot.

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In order to form a more perfect union

Escort Cards!

buttons made by the Busy Beaver Button Company

Table "numbers"

Each table will be named after a political figure. Yes, we've taken pains to match groupings of guests with particular political figures. Yes, it's all under wraps until May 24. But the table signs are making me so happy right now, I just had to post one as a preview. I used components of our invitation suite to build them.

Why didn't I think of this?! I can just picture who I would sit at the Ronnie Reagan table...

I love this wedding!

Eat Drink Marry

The Case for Technology

ThruYou is a project by Kutiman that involves sampling videos on Youtube to create all new music. The results are pretty impressive. In Kutiman's own words:
What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated Youtube videos/clips editing together to create ThruYou. In other words - what you see is what you hear.

found via geekologie

Everytime I think technology is going to be the ruin of civilization(as I blog), I see something as cool as this.

Thorncrown Chapel Eureka Springs, AR

Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Spings, AR. This inside is incredible- there was service going on so we couldn't take pictures. The whole back of the church is glass- can you imagine it in the fall? This is in late November when most of the leaves were gone. Oh and some other pics from our trip.