Penny Tiles

I want these penny tiles in the bathroom, although just on the floor and maybe going up the side of the bathtube a bit; having them all over the walls too seem like overkill to me.  They feel so good on your feet too, kind of massage as you walk.

Yay penny tiles!
Image from Desire to Inspire

Chaise Lounge

Haha, so last night C planned our future for the next 5 years.  Road trip first then talk of school for an MBA, off to New Zealand to live for a couple years, and then back to the States to build a house, which he sketched out.  As it stands we're not to have a living room, just a large kitchen and a big dinning area for dinner parties that we'll be throwing in the future.  We'll devote most of the common space to the kitchen since most people congregate there during parties anyway.

I still think it's nice to have some sort of comfy seating towards the end of the evening when people start to get a little weak on their feet, which is why I think this lounge would be great.  It's small and cute and not terribly expensive.
Edie Velvet Chaise by Urban Outfitters 

Place Cards

It's expensive and we'll probably not do a sit-down dinner, however if there's any way we could pull it off inexpensively I would like to try.  For sit-down dinners it seems like most people assign seating and it always ends up being slightly awkward. 

In networking 101 when introducing two people, it seems customary to say something along the lines of, "This is Mr. Smith, he is an excellent poet....and this is Mr. James, he is a large animal veterinarian."  You know, just to give people a jumping off point for conversation.  I think it might be fun to write in small print below the name on the place card of a sit-down dinner, a little fact about some other person who is sitting at the table as well...open up dialogue table wide.  Or do you think that's too cheesy?

Studio 3

A good friend of mine is one of three amazing ladies who run a design and printing group called Studio 3.  I think one of my favorite designs they have at the moment is their Strictly Business handlebar mustache over Texas.  A set of these napkins would add some chutzpah to the MUD Australia dishes.
Studio 3

MUD Australia

Like I said, I work in a home accessories boutique and we have several different ceramic lines that couples register for.  I've decided that of all of them, I adore MUD Australia the most.  They're very thin but surprisingly durable--I've learned this from dropping a couple pieces on the floor, whoops.  The clay has been tinted all the way through and only the top surface is covered in a thin layer of clear glaze.  I kind of like this in case we ever chip any of our plates because there won't be any unsightly white bits showing through that are the telltale sign of chippage.  I think I would like to have Steel dinner plates, Ash salad plates, and White small noodle bowls.  Look!  You can even put them in the oven to make souffles in!

MUD Australia

Brion Hopkins

I like the intense color of California based photographer, Brion Hopkins.  Or maybe I just like all the blues.     

Via 100 Layer Cake

Wedding Box

From Cori & Zack's upstate NY wedding...
Listen to this one: “We put a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a set of love letters (written in secret and unshared) into a wooden crate and then sealed it with nails (each nail was hammered by a family member to show their commitment to supporting our marriage and then finally by us). The crate is meant as an act of reassurance, a romantic gesture–if ever our relationship is in peril, we are to open the crate, drink the wine, and read the letters before we make any decisions about our future.”

We absolutely must do this!
Via 100 Layer Cake

All The Single Ladies

When I first saw this a couple days ago I thought it was pure brilliance, and tons of fun. Then when I youtubed it, it looks to be a current wedding trend because there are tons of videos.

I was talking to K last night and we decided that we should absolutely do a choreographed dance with the bridesmaids. We'll have to figure out what song to do it to and maybe enlist a fellow dance friend to help us choreograph. Haha, this is all hilarious that K would consent to dancing in front of people because the girl hates to dance. Period. But that's love for ya.

T Bird & The Breaks

Found my rocking local band! I don't know why I didn't think of them before...but they sure would be fun.
T-Bird & The Breaks

Fortune Cookies

When C and I first began dating I would send him random pick-up lines via text message. It's quite amazing the verity of pick-up lines there are floating around--they even have Harry Potter, Christen, and Jewish lines! Haha, oh dear.

I think it would be great to make fortune cookies to put at dinner place settings with different pick-up lines hidden in them!

Some of my personal favorites are...

*Right now we’re just two RNA, but maybe we could transcribe together and become DNA.
*Now I know why Solomon had 700 wives... Because he never met you.
*What's a maiden like you doing in a dungeon like this?

Far and away my absolute favorite is:
*Why don't you go ahead and slid your matza balls over near my gefilte fish?

More Pick-up Lines
Fortune Cookie recipe