You know all of those times when you feel like you've built up a lot of good karma and it doesn't seem to be coming back to you? This weekend, all of the good karma that had been swirling around finally settled and made a perfect weekend.
There are a lot of ways to write the information in this post (most of them involve gushing), but we have a place for the wedding, and I now have a dress. IF YOU ARE NOT MARRYING ME, you can see the dress here. The bridesmaids (the three who could make the trip, anyway) had a great time picking out their individual dress styles, and I love the color that I chose for their dresses. It's a tomato-y red, or a bloody orange (I can't decide), and it soo my color. It also happens to look good on all of the girls.
After a perfect day of shopping (easy, calm, cheaper-than-expected, great weather), we came home and cooked up a very inventive menu that Sara had planned. We cooked, ate, drank wine and mojitos, and were happy. There were exclamations from all of us about the perfection of the day.
The next day Sara and I (the other lovely ladies headed home) went to my LYS and she bought some fantastic lace weight Malabrigo. I didn't even know it existed before. It's the same style of coloring and softness as the worsted version, and I love it. While walking around my little town, I found a dress (for attending a wedding) that I was willing to pay full price for, but I found out at the register that it was half price. We ate ice cream while sitting on sun-warmed stone and talked about honeymoon ideas. It was that kind of weekend.
Knitting content will return tomorrow, and soon there will be my first contest!
Beautiful wedding dress! Very elegant. Glad you had such a wonderful and productive weekend.
I just got 2 skeins of laceweight Malabrigo from Webs in a orchidish color (Kirsten of Through the Loops enabled me by telling me Webs had it when I admired hers on her blog). It's so soft! I have 2 skeins, and I'm considering knitting Icarus, but I've heard it can be a long slog, so I haven't made a final decision.
Posted by: Brenda | June 26, 2007 at 01:25 AM
What a lovely weekend! Isn't it just so affirming when the pieces all fall into place like that?
Posted by: Ruth | June 26, 2007 at 01:29 AM
Wow. Sounds like a wonderful weekend. That location for your wedding looks amazing!
Posted by: Suz | June 26, 2007 at 01:39 AM
Oh wow! I love that dress. You will look so lovely in it!
Posted by: tiennie | June 26, 2007 at 04:39 AM
you found a dress! that's so awesome. it's beautiful. and, you had a GREAT weekend. sounds like you'll look back on this one for a long time. i love those kinds of memories :)
Posted by: jody | June 26, 2007 at 05:32 AM
Congrats on the dress--it is beautiful! I'm impresses and jealous of your perfect shopping weekend. Those don't happen to me often.
Posted by: Tanya | June 26, 2007 at 06:29 AM
The dress is BEAUTIFUL!
I hope the wedding is even more fun than the planning!
Posted by: Christy | June 26, 2007 at 07:27 AM
What a nice weekend shared with good friends. What could be better?!
Posted by: kim | June 26, 2007 at 08:21 AM
how wonderful that everything came together!!! that dress is AMAZING!!!!!
Posted by: stacey | June 26, 2007 at 08:49 AM
You should definitely play the lotto this week -- all your planets are aligned!
Posted by: Liz K. | June 26, 2007 at 09:07 AM
Congrats! The dress looks lovely, and it sounds like a perfect weekend!
Posted by: Emma | June 26, 2007 at 09:30 AM
What a lovely dress! Very elegant. I approve. ;-)
Posted by: Beth S. | June 26, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Ditto. The dress is lovely (as are the friends and the weekend.) Nice to see good karma happen to good people.
Blessings!
Posted by: Susan P | June 26, 2007 at 10:32 AM
So happy to hear about the good karma rolling in. And the dress is gorgeous!
Posted by: Ariel | June 26, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Gorgous dress! Congrats on finding such a beautiful gown. You will be a stunning bride! Congrats, too, on finding the place. It looks lovely. I didn't know about lace weight Malabrigo either, but yum!
Posted by: Jean | June 26, 2007 at 01:35 PM
I love the dress you picked out! Congrats! Sounds like an awesome weekend. The laceweight Malabrigo is like buttah. I bought 4 skeins a few weeks ago and it is now marinating in the stash. It's so delicous I had to buy it even though I have yet to officially take the plunge into real lace knitting.
Posted by: Kim | June 26, 2007 at 03:19 PM
Help - I can't see your dress! I NEED to see your dress because I haven't found a dress YET and might need to borrow it. So, I really need to see it!
Posted by: Nora | June 27, 2007 at 04:47 PM
The link is fixed now... I'm not sure what happened there.
Posted by: Kristy | June 27, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Awesome weekend. :) Very pretty dress! I've been looking for my own...actually too scared to do any serious planning. :p Trying to get over it.
Happy to hear you had a great weekend. :)
Posted by: Sacha | June 27, 2007 at 06:11 PM
I love your dress!! Are you getting excited?
Posted by: Christine | June 28, 2007 at 06:08 PM
Yay you got a dress! And a gorgeous one at that! Sounds like a fab weekend for sure. :)
Posted by: Jessica | June 29, 2007 at 10:33 AM
What a wonderful locale for a wedding!
Posted by: Linda | July 02, 2007 at 02:46 PM