Wedding Wednesday: Claptrap Card Box Progress

We're almost done Claptrap! He's just missing his arms and then he can start dancing.

No, he won't actually dance, but he will have little speakers playing some of his catch phrases including "Hey, check me out everybody! I'm dancin', I'm dancin'!"

For something that I told Chris would just be a weekend project, the card box has taken a lot of time, but I'm still really happy I decided to start work on it. I know there are more important wedding projects that need my attention, but it's the weird and wacky stuff like this that makes the whole process enjoyable. Of course, you might need to remind me that I wrote this when I'm stressing out the week before the wedding because none of the boring but necessary stuff was done far enough in advance.

Speaking of more important projects, we're almost done designing the invitations!

We've done some test prints and proofreading, and we should be starting to assemble them tomorrow.

Wedding Wednesday: Hair Trial

I was so worried about finding a hair dresser for the wedding. Chris has been cutting my hair for the last few years, so I don't have a preferred salon or stylist in Ottawa. To make it extra complicated, I needed to find someone willing to do my hair on location so I could be around to help set up on the big day.

Fortunately a good friend came to my rescue and suggested Karmel Koshman.
We did a trial run of my updo and it was lots of fun and I'm very happy with the results.

Photos and hair by Karmel Koshman

Doors Open Ottawa

This year for Doors Open Chris and I volunteered at the Diefenbunker.
They had some people cancel at the last minute so we offered to help with the BBQ.

Saturday was a beautiful day and we had a great time. The bunker was a popular stop for Doors Open, they had over 3000 people walk through over the weekend!

Wedding Wednesday: Claptrap Progress

I've been sick for the past few days so we haven't made much headway on wedding stuff this week.

We've been slowly working on the Claptrap card box and the invitations.

Claptrap's main body is built and we've given him a base coat of paint. Next we need to add the arms and electronics and build his wheel.

Great Glebe Garage Sale-ing

The Great Glebe Garage Sale was today. In what must surely be a record for us, we spent a grand total of $3.50!

We left the little red wagon at home this year and took a vintage pram we found on freecycle instead. We were hoping to buy a bunch of glasses but we went home with just 2 small tvs and a single water goblet.

Wedding Wednesday: 100 Days Left!

Apparently I'm not very good at remembering to post wedding updates on Wednesdays. It's Thursday, but it's also 100 days from our wedding date!

We've been doing lots of wedding stuff lately. Chris has been working on the design of the invitations and hopefully we'll be able to start putting them together soon.

I've been busy working on our card box. It's going to be a Claptrap, CL4P-TP General Purpose Robot, from the video game Borderlands.

I'm basing the card box on a simplified papercraft version of the robot that I've scaled up and made out of cardboard. I'm almost done covering it papier maché.

We've also made progress on the centre pieces. Some of our fantastic friends helped us with making pop tab chainmaille covers for the mason jar vases.

5 Years

This week Chris and I celebrated the fifth anniversary of our first date.
Because we're such dorks, we decided to summarize our relationship in an infographic.