Fun with Film

Some pictures Franklin took on his Pentax SLR, with 35mm film:

1. Mt. Rainier 2. Firepit sans the fire 3. Dinner with ghosts.

(I lost that brooch I'm wearing in the last picture. It was my favorite...what a bummer. )

We stayed in a cabin at the base of Mt. Rainier. It was so awesome on the inside! Dream house, for sure. I'd like to go back with friends sometime - split the bill & stay up late talking and drinking under the stars. There was an attic bedroom that was so cozy! I want it. I love houses with lots of little nooks for sitting and reading, and windows to let in all the heavily cloud-filtered daylight we get here in the Northwest. Every bit of light helps - even if it's all cold and grey.

In other news: We're moving! Only about 10 miles North, but it's going to be awesome. Moving pictures are bound to follow. I'm going to miss our dusty little apartment!

-Elizabeth

Book & Quote brooches, yay!

I finally added some new brooches to the shop! I just started a new "Book & Quote" brooch set series, but I've only made one so far. It's a book I first read in seventh grade, and it's been one of my favorites ever since... On the Road, by Jack Kerouac:

I have no clue what to do next, though. Walden, maybe? That's pretty classic, and up there in my favorites. I'd look to Franklin's book collection for inspiration, but it's all sci-fi and fantasy, haha. Don't get me wrong, I like sci-fi and fantasy every once in a while, but I don't know how many people want to sport The Dragon Reborn on their lapel, hahaha.

-Elizabeth

**Custom orders are welcome, by the way. Especially regarding book & quote sets! just shoot me an email at lizzy.sadile[at]gmail.com

Wedding stuff: the cake topper

Wedding posts are almost over! haha. Just a couple more details to share with you.

the cake topper:

We bought the cake at a local bakery in Everett, and it almost didn't survive the hour trip in the car, haha. I maybe kinda took a really sharp turn on the way to the wedding, and we almost lost the top tier - oops! haha.

The topper, we made out of some wooden pegs we got at the craft store, and I made my cake-topper "bouquet" out of the little discs of paper you get from hole-punching paper, haha. Then, the night before, I threw together a cake-sized pennant banner out of skewers, twine, and tea-stained graph paper. Oh, and hot glue! Boy, did that little hot glue gun come in handy. If you have a wedding on the horizon, I definitely recommend bringing a hot glue gun with you, just in case anything decides to disassemble before your eyes, haha.

I wonder if people actually use those plastic cookie-cutter cake toppers they sell in stores. You know, the ones where they haven't been updated since the early 90s, and the bride is always blonde? They always look so serious and stiff. Hmm.

-Elizabeth

Wedding Stuff: the bouquet

So, this was my bouquet! On the way back home, it was crushed, sadly. but I'm going to mend it, and hold onto it forever, I think. I feel too emotionally invested, haha. I made the paper roses using this tutorial I found here on 100 layer cake. Instead of just using pages from a book, I used tea-stained graph paper, pages of vintage magazines, super old sheet music and vintage maps of the Pacific Northwest. I added a feather, felt flowers and lace for color and texture, and you can't see it in the picture, but the handle is wrapped in burlap. So itchy!

This is definitely a time-consuming and frustrating project, but pretty rewarding in the end! :) 'specially 'cause it doesn't die on ya, like real flowers do! ;)

-Elizabeth

Wedding stuff: our CD wedding favors

 

Mix CD wedding favors, what what! We wanted to make mix tapes instead, but that would have taken SO long, and we just didn't have enough time. I drew this up in pen, colored it in with crayons and then made photo-copies in black & white, on cream colored paper, and glued them onto paper disc sleeves. Some might call it hokey, but I call it love. I feel like I'm some sort of a recovering perfectionist, or something. An imperfectionist? uh, sure. So I dig it alright.

Every good mix has a beginning, middle, and end. This mix wasn't our best, but we wanted it to include what we listened to on our drive down to California, what we listened to during the short period that we lived there, and finally, what we listened to on our way back up to Washington. We both have eerily similar taste in music (and everything else for that matter), and Franklin's first gift to me a long long time ago was this really amazing mix CD, which he named, "From the Land of the Mole People". Through it, I was introduced to a lot of my favorite bands. So a mix-CD wedding favor seemed pretty fitting for us. I think you might have to sign up on playlist.com before it'll let you access it, but you oughta LISTEN TO IT --> (Click here and you can listen to it while you click around on the internet!)

TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK AGAIN; OUR HEARTS BELONG IN WASHINGTON:
a compilation of neato songs from Franklin + Elizabeth

TRACKLIST:
"excuses" the morning benders
"january wedding" the avett brothers
"good grief" nedelle
"i want the world to stop" belle & sebastian
"punk rock girl" the dead milkmen
"tail and mane" cryptacise
"fools" the dodos
"family waves" dinosaur feathers
"youth" beach fossils
"slow jabroni" surfer blood
"honey in the sun" camera obscura
"august" rilo kiley
"only you" the platters
"you are what you love" jenny lewis + the watson twins
"our angel's ululu" deerhoof
"on the drive home" of montreal
"white winter hymnal" fleet foxes
"rainbow connection" laura stevenson + dave davidson
"in the aeroplane over the sea" neutral milk hotel
"untitled" neutral milk hotel

You can listen to the compilation HERE (sans of montreal + rainbow connection)

-Elizabeth

Wedding Stuff: The Reception Table

I am pretty much in love with this vintage suitcase -- and it was only 15 bucks!!! We used it as an "envelope box" and it doubled as a pretty sweet decoration for the reception table, too. Isn't it beautiful? heehee.

Back when Franklin and I were writing each other letters, he bought this really old typewriter, and we wanted to use that instead of a guest book (and it would have looked so perfect next to that suitcase!) but that didn't work out, unfortunately. So I sketched up some stuff, made some copies on card stock, and had it spiral-bound at Staples. Last minute guest book, success! Have a look:

We wanted it to feel more like a children's activity book than a guest book, so people could actually have some fun with it (I know I would personally be all over drawing things between fern fronds!). It was fun to see all the drawings people left for us. I almost forgot to leave a pen out, though! Oops. My 2-year-old nephew left us a page full of scribbles, and it nearly made me melt. So glad we went with a guest book instead of a typewriter!

-Elizabeth

The Newlyweds

Um.... We're married!

What a crazy mad blur it was. We walked down the aisle to the song"excuses" by the morning benders. He came wandering out at the beginning of the song, when it sounds like a lot of searching and waiting, and then, the drums! so many drums. When the strings come in, is when I come out of hiding and start walking down the aisle.  It was the song we listened to when we were falling in love. and from now on, whenever I hear this song, I'll get nervous butterflies in my stomach:

Franklin's best friend Justin got ordained online to marry us (he's the one in the picture above). He wrote the ceremony for us, and it was AWESOME (and of the secular variety). My sister was my maid of honor, and she did a reading for us in the middle of the ceremony. We wanted something kinda quirky and different? We searched for weeks, and finally found the perfect reading. It's a science fiction love poem called "Scientific Love" written by livejournal user Tim_Pratt (which is utterly perfect, because Franklin & I met on livejournal, and it's played a pretty huge role in our relationship). Click here for the poem. The part about zombies nearly made me cry, haha. Seriously.

 We had Justin end the ceremony with a quote from the book Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac. We really wanted to work Kerouac in there somewhere, haha. and it fit so perfectly.

“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
As he was reading, the music kicked in again. It was "Untitled" by Neutral Milk Hotel. A great buzzing, building up behind the words of Kerouac, and when the bagpipes start up, we kiss. Ahhhh....  like some sort of a ghostly & magical dream:


And that's all for now! More wedding posts to come, though! with all the pictures of the details and decorations. So much to go over, I couldn't fit it all in one post!

-Elizabeth