A wedding & a castle in the sky

So this past weekend was my sister's wedding. It was beautiful, and a lot of fun....even as a 7-months pregnant maid of honor!! Now, I gave my husband my camera and told him to "take some pictures." And this is the only one he took with ME in it.... LOL

Dad, Mom, me, Sis, and her new husband

He DID, however, take a lot of neat shots of the church, scenery, and other guests. Here is one of my favorites, a picture of one of the stained glass windows and a chandelier in the chapel.

Now, back to the stitching. After working on Labyrinth for a week or 2, I decided to get Fairy Tale Towne out again. Here is my progress on the castle -

And here is M-ort-icia with the the beginnings of this year's ort collection.

Lots and lots of pictures and apologies...

I'm sorry I've been absent for so long. Between the wedding, stitching, weekends at the medieval faire, my boss leaving unexpectedly....it has been rather hairy around here.

So I'll start with the wedding. It was a very loooooooooong trip (1800+ miles roundtrip, in 5 days), and while the wedding was lovely, it felt a bit....disorganized? I dunno. Maybe it is because at my wedding, I was constantly worried about making my guests happy. This wedding - not so much. There were no programs, and people just kind of milled around and waited to be told what to do/where to go/etc. Even the wedding party was a bit clueless - DH was a groomsman, and they had no rehearsal! Anyway. May the bride and groom enjoy a lifetime of wedding bliss and all that....here's the pictures!

DH and I outside the reception hall. (My dress is my green plaid Irish dress....it went over INCREDIBLY well, and I think I look fah-bu-lous in it!)

The wedding party.

Bridal smooches.
The ceremony was SUPPOSED to take place on the stage you see here, but it was pouring at the time....so the ceremony was held in the reception hall. It was rather dark in there, and I couldn't really get any decent pictures.

And now for my wedding gift, all framed. I didn't get it wrapped, but I figured that way it wouldn't get tossed in a box and possibly broken when the gifts were collected at the end of the evening.

Although I didn't do anything with it, I DID finish the Vermillion freebie that I'd planned to make into a bag. It is quite lovely, and I do have the remnants from the Dress That Wasn't that coordinate with it very nicely. Maybe later this year, when I'm not feeling quite such a time crunch, I'll get motivated to make something with it!

And finally (and completely UNstitchy or wedding-y), my present to myself. You see, 6 years ago I got my first tattoo - a Celtic knot design. For the past 5 years, I've wanted to add a dragon to it in some form, either around the knot, or make the knot part of the dragon, or something like that. And yesterday.....I did it. Wooo-hooo, I'm an ink junkie!! (He is on my upper left thigh, high enough to be hidden most of the time - unless I'm wearing a bathing suit, of course, or possibly an obscenely short skirt. hehehe From the top of his wings to the longest part of his tail, he's maybe 5 or 6 inches.)