Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Pics ah Heeeehyaaa!!!!!!!! (Jersey Shore anyone...anyone?)

Check out the blog post by our AMAZEBALLS photographer and his wife Jason and Lucia Angelini:

Boston Wedding: Celia and Jake at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Lucia is a freaken ROCK STAR! Girl just had a baby and within days, she was back to editing our photos! I shit you not. I ♥ them, as in Jason and Lucia! I also ♥ the photos.   

Our first look, and one of my favorites. Jason Angelini Photography

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High on lights

O! M! G! People. Our. Highlight. Video. Is. Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check it out!

Celia + Jake from Boston Wedding Films on Vimeo.

We love, like LOVE it!!! Thank you Mike and Michael of Boston Wedding Films.

Jake's favorite part is where he dropped a Venn diagram reference in our wedding video. To quote hime. "Sorry ladies, I'm off the market now."

Paula's favorite part is our first look, where I tapped him on both shoulders to confuse him.

All of it is my favorite. I was afraid that our song choice might be dated in 10 years, but our cinematographers think that it'll stand the test of time. Either way, I'm glad we went with it!

Enjoy!

Random Thursday

It's been a long week or two around these parts filled with friends, babies, soul searching, new routines, and crafting. I owe you guys recaps and and wedding related "glory", and I'm dragging my feet. In the mean time, I leave you with some randomness.

How adorable are these little ballet slippers? Baby H is 8 weeks old.
(I think I cropped this photo in too tight..)

Remember my post on revamping an Ikea dresser? Apparently there is a whole community out there that repurposes Ikea furniture. They call themselves Ikea Hackers. I found a blog completely devoted to Ikea hacks. I can't even tell you how many hours I spent surfing through it. Some of it is pretty ugly, but there are a couple of gems in the mix!

I found out I was REALLY lactose intolerant not too long before the wedding. It's not a reach to say that I have a lactose allergy. In searching for non-dairy recipes I stumbled across Dairy Free for Baby. The authors' little one's are not only extremely intolerant of lactose protiens, but soy protiens as well. It's gut wrenching to read about what their babies have gone through.

As you know, one of my new found hobbies is photography. (If you've figured me out, you'd swear that I have some form of ADD/ADHD and jump from one thing to another.) While perusing through one of my favorite food/photo blogs, Cannelle et Vanille (Aran's photos make me drool all over my keyboard), I learned that the author was going to be teaching at a craft retreat in Colorado. And you know what? I am going to go. I get to learn about food styling and food photography at one session. AND. I can learn about lifestyle photography at another session. I have friends that live in Fort Collins, so I can visit them while I'm out there.

Speaking of photography. My camera and I are about to go on our first trip. I purchased my camera last November, but it hasn't been outside of Massachusetts/Connecticut! Crazy! I am headed to Chicago for the weekend. My BFF Jack and I are ready to explore. While I am there, I hope to take cool photos much like the Bonnie Tsang does on her trips. Of course my photos won't be anywhere near as amazing.

Bonnie Tsang Photography

10 in 115

10 in 115 is my take on 100 in 1001. 100 in 1001 is a personal growth project in which you make a list of 100 things that you want to do and the goal is to complete your list in 1001 days.

You could joke that I just finished 100 items in 700-ish days. But with all these crazy ideas in my head, I think I should jot them down and see how I do.

Target date: 12/31/2011

1. Finish the 2 crochet projects that I have started.
• I start projects, but rarely do I finish them. Usually, I just mess up towards the end and then proceed to unravel the entire thing.
2. Make a profit off a cupcake order.
• I lose money on most jobs. Guess its time to get serious and raise the prices.
3. Clean out my closet and take out all the old clothes that I do not wear.
• I still have articles of clothing I bought in Hong Kong 6 years ago that I have never worn or will ever wear.
4. Cook a three course meal.
• I haven't cooked a good meal in a long time. And to think, I used to cook every night for my roommates during my internships. 
5. Throw a dinner party.
• Even better, a murder mystery dinner party.
6. Clean out my car.
• It was looking pretty bad just before my sunroof shattered. Insurance covered the clean-up, but now that the family is gone, my car is now one large trash can. Don't believe me? There are two empty Starbucks cups in the center console storage thingy. I had to move them from the cup holders in the center console to make room for my fresh cup of coffee the other day. Yea...that's pretty bad.
7. Explore Chicago with my BFF Jack.
• OK, so this is a gimme since we are planning to do this at the end of the month. I just need to buy my plane ticket and book the hotel.
8. Redecorate our bedroom.
9. Design, create, and mail out Thank You's to our wedding guests.
10. Plan my trip home.
• Winter isn't the best time to go home, but I'll take what I can get.

Let's see how I do at the end of the year, then perhaps we'll move onto 100 in 1001.



Jill: an interior designer?

Last year I saw this set up and swooned. Curtains used as the headboard? Genius!

HGTV Dream House 2011 - Master Bedroom via HGTV

If our bed frame looked like that, I would have redecorated our bedroom immediately. Instead, I said to myself, I'll figure it out after the wedding. Although, I have to admit my head was swirling with different ideas for a about a week. I was trying to come up with ways to change color of our furniture without replacing it or painting it. I'm still working on it.



Our set up. personal photo

Then Val introduced me to this:

via Nothing But Bonfires



Drama and clean lines? Yes, please! I am going to try to merge the two ideas together when winter comes. Right now I've got one too many things on my plate.