Something New & a Leap of Faith

When I made my New Years nonresolutions there was one thing that I desperately wanted to include but didn't.

This year I'm making a change that will impact my future.

I'm starting a business.

I loved planning our wedding, I researched everything 20 times over and came out of it with a knowledge that most brides don't have.

Word got around (and people saw the pictures & heard the stories of our wedding) and in the 4 months since our wedding I'm working with 4 couples.

I couldn't be more overjoyed to be planning weddings. I love being able to use the wedding knowledge I learned to help make other brides planning go smoother, and so far all of the response I've gotten from my brides has been positive.

I ordered business cards from the wonderful Downtown Paper & Press after I got tired of scrawling my information on random pieces of paper and have been handing them out whenever possible.

I'm starting out slow and seeing where this takes me, it would be awesome to make a career out of planning but if all I do are the three weddings this year I'll be happy with that.

(Who am I kidding, I totally want to become the next Ashley Meaders)

So there you have it, folks, a new adventure, a big leap of faith, and a business without an official name.

PS If you have any good ideas for a name I'd love to hear them!

Another Something New

I've been wanting to do a vlog for a while but wasn't quite sure what to do. When I saw this dialect vlog going around I took a step and decided that it would be a fun project.

The rules are pretty simple, you read through a list of words and then answer a series of questions and everyone gets to hear how your pronounce different words & sounds.

Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

-What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

-What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?

-What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

-What do you call gym shoes?

-What do you say to address a group of people?

-What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

-What do you call your grandparents

-What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

-What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

-What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

I'd love for you to play along! I think it's so interesting to hear how everyone talks, Jus & I have different dialects even though we grew up in the same area!

If you play along please let me know and I'll add a link to your dialect vlog here!

Katie at She Likes Ruffles, He Likes Truffles

Kelly at KJPugs

Stephanie at Forget Me (not)

Something New

I'll be honest, I had begun one of my "resolutions" before I wrote my resolutions post.

This weekend I did something I've never done before, I went to an ice hockey game.

My mom (who is from Detroit) got my dad (who is from Philadelphia) tickets to a Detroit Red Wings/Philadelphia Flyers hockey game for Christmas and Jus, Banan & I got to tag along.

And so we went.

We went to cheer on our mom's Red Wings and our dad's Flyers.

And it turns out hockey is a hundred million times better in person than on tv.

And it turns out that my dad didn't get beaten up for wearing a Flyers shirt in Detroit (it probably helped that Philly won).