*yawn*

I slept 15 hours yesterday, and a good solid 8 last night, yet I'm still tired and could sleep another 15 today. Something about making a 7 hour drive home (or more so ride, Chris drove the whole way) while hungover sucks the life out of you.

( Our trip to Indy, the wedding and the aftermath )

Stealing, stealing, stealing a car for Moe, da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da, insurance fraud today!

Man, you guys are too much! I'm just going to have to miss out on the past three days of posts. It's just too much for me to go back and read. I kind of skimmed it yesterday, got the gist of what everyone was doing, but just too much to go back and comment on everything.

So, it was a beautiful wedding. I'm really glad we splurged on the wool coats before leaving town (never got warmer than 15 degrees while we were there)! The velvet would not have been enough! And now I have this really nice ivory wool wrap. But now, coming back to 30-40 degree Alabama, a light jacket almost seems like overkill. As I said on the other journal, good training for Colorado. :]

Came back to find two packages from Dinesh in my mailbox. One large one, containing roughly 7.5 yards of that beautiful ivory trim (I'm not going to bother with any other pics of it, I think he covered it well enough with his auction pics that I posted earlier). The second package was a small envelope with a 3 inch sample of the sage green trim. This stuff is stunning! But, I can't buy any of it for now. Just beautiful work! Tonight, I think I'm going to go ahead and make a belt and the armbands out of this trim so that the alternatives are done. I'm still waiting for the new pattern to get here to start bodice v2.0.

Thanks for the feedback on the jewelry set! It's really helpful and encouraging. And of course I'll post pictures of it when I'm done. I'm expecting to get the orders from FMG and RG today. They were both sent USPS Priority and shipped out on Friday, so that would put them here today (given yesterday was a Fed. holiday). Too bad I wasn't a day or two earlier with the order on it or I could get the set to the father tonight (I'll see him at the brew club meeting). It would have given me something to do while killing time in the hotel room over the weekend.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

After a couple of months of waiting, checking weekly, hoping she'd get some more in my size, I finally saw the pair of khussa I wanted for the wedding gown today on ebay. Checking with Chris really quick to be sure it was ok I order them, I took the plunge and got one of two pair she had (the last two went so quickly, I had to grab them as soon as I saw them!).

( Here they are )