again with my obsession with blogs

so today while i should be doing excellent workingness at my boring day job i am again instead working by reading and wishing blogging was my life like linda's at rosealamode!

she is giving away a pair of KM2shoes on her blog and since i am going to charlie's bridal shower tomorrow and we spend all day trying to figure out what amazing shoes she should wear to her wedding and have not yet come to a perfect pair, i thought why not try to win them for her? yes, i really am that nice in real life. they don't make em like this anymore.

check these out:

aren't they pretty?

my plan is to paint her and her soon to be husband a picture for their new log cabin that they're building (hence no money for pretty shoes) which should be done just after the wedding... but a girl should have something pretty and fun for her bridal shower/wedding to call her own.

and seriously, she's like 5'2" and her husband to be is 6'4". she needs all the height she can get.

wedding fever

http://www.sublimestitching.com/weddingwishes

so this summer my dear friend charlie is getting married and i need to figure out something amazing and awesome to get/make her with my limited amount of skills.

and i've already hinted that my other dear friend amy will be getting married next year... i will hopefully accomplish making her quilt which in my awesome thinking patterns should be a mix of embroidery/quilting magic -- my plan is to do a basic square for the top, rotating blues, then switching to greens for the bottom and covering it with a brown/green pattern to make it look like a tree. her wedding is going to be tree themed and i'm probably more excited to plan it than anything... and now that i've mentioned all this i have to find a way to hide my blog from her until that very day... hmmm.. not well thought out i guess...

but the problem with charlie is that she knows how to make all of this amazing stuff... in fact, she gave me my sewing machine and is teaching me all of the skills i have... so what can i make a person who is already out skilling me?? AND her wedding is THIS AUGUST! i need skills! i need suggestions! and thoughts. and a good boost of encouragement that my dreams will some day become realities...