Weekend filled with wedding & shower prep.

Weekend. What weekend?

I'm not being negative, it's just the simple truth. The weekend passed in a blur of paper & spray adhesive, whipped honey, and a very HOT apartment. All parts of the processes necessary to finish the wedding invitations and make the bridal shower favors.

My Saturday began with screen printing and coffee, followed by cutting and gluing and yoga. Yes yoga too. Thank god.
After working on invitations for HOURS, my back started to ache. I never have back aches, because I do so much yoga. But I had one on Saturday from sitting in the same position for a few hours while gluing and cutting. So I did yoga, and then did some more work on invitations. Then Andy and I decided we both needed to relax for the rest of the evening, so we had a really great dinner (steak and sweet potato fries), and then watched a movie called the Happening. It was a creepy movie, which I didn't expect considering Andy picked it out. He doesn't usually like scary movies...I expected it to be more of an action movie, but it wasn't. However, the ending was pretty lame. I felt like there should have been a really scary ending, but it was sort of a happy-ish ending and it involved aliens (SPOILER ALERT - oops...a little late!)
Any time the end of a scary movie involves aliens, the movie is ruined. Just saying. I like aliens and all...I like outer space...but I think it's cheesy not to have a scary movie end with some sort of bizarre, creepy ending. There's something comforting about the scary things in a movie being caused by aliens. I don't know. Not a fan of the ending.
But it was really nice to lay in bed and watch a movie with Andy...relax after a pretty tiring day.

Sunday we both woke up and went for a walk/ jog to Kristin and Nathan's, to feed Cassie since they are out of town. After that we stopped at Michael's craft store and Stop & Shop, and picked up some things we needed for baking the cookie favors for my shower this coming weekend. (yay!!!)
I spend the rest of the day on Sunday baking - about 8 hours worth. Geesh! But it was worth it...the cookies came out so great, and our refrigerator benefited during my downtime. It is now clean as a whistle! Andy was busy studying and brushing up on things for an interview he has today (good luck my love!)...so I put on some Andrew Bird and BAKED!
The end result of the cookies is marvelous if you ask me. I tend to bake with some recipes in hand, and an idea of what I want to make...but I usually throw extra ingredients into things and change them up/ play around to see what comes out. I made two kinds of cookies. The first are vanilla sandwich cookies with lemon curd and grapefruit cream filling. The second are vanilla sandwich cookies with whipped honey and vanilla honey cream filling. Andy and I bought a jar of whipped honey from the green market in our neighborhood on Saturday (great marketing skills by the man working at the stand), so this ingredient inspired the honey vanilla cookies. It is local whipped honey, organic, and kosher! Woohoo!
I think both sets of cookies are equally delicious, and hopefully the shower guests will enjoy them as much as I do!
I need to take some photos of them in the freezer and post them...

Andrew took pics of the invitations in progress, so I must post those too!

LOTS to do this week. Laundry, and getting things ready for our upcoming weekend in Cuse. Hopefully working on the invites some more, and the bags for the cookies. And maybe relaxing/ taking a breather somewhere in the midst of all of this. Maybe.
Really really looking forward to taking a little road trip up to Cuse just Andy and me. Will be a nice way to start the weekend.

Can't wait for all the FUN to come!!