Busy busy busy

POP! Spring!

We had an instant spring yesterday. When I walked to work, the trees had barely started thinking of going green, and on my way home; wham! Instant green!
Last week was sunny, warm and lovely also, but it was first yesterday the birches decided to join in on the fun. I'm so happy I'm not allergic, those people have a fun time ahead.

I've been doing some gardening when I had the time the last two weeks. I had to prune our apple trees, 'cause the lady we bought the apartment from hadn't bothered for the time she lived here. One of the two apple trees we have looked like huge multi-legged spider.
And I had bought all kinds of seeds and bulbs, to make a pretty flower bed, which we dug out on saturday. The neighbour's kids helped us, and saved us some time, doing all the dirty work of crawling underneath the veranda to fetch stones to line the flower beds with. And they seemed to enjoy it! I mean, I was elated to get some help with the boring stuff, and they looked like they were having the time of their lives. "What can we do next? Could we put some sunflowers down there?"
It was very sweet, and they were so proud afterwards. After all, we share a garden. That is, it's a pretty big garden divided in three sections, one for each apartment, but there are no fences in between so it looks like one big garden.

The wedding is completely on track so far... At least I think it is. My hen night is coming up very soon, and I'm so curious to see what my friends have come up with. I've also bought a pretty pretty tiara, and a very nice veil.

I'm also starting the new job on friday. That'll be interesting! Geek heaven, here I come ;)

Miss Fix It!

Yesterday was my last weekday off before the "big" day. It's still some time left until we tie the knot, but I'll soon be rid of working Saturdays (and loosing the now and then Wednesday compensational day off).
Soo... a whole l.o.t of stuff had to be taken care of yesterday.

First we visited the bakery to order our cake. Because we wanted a custom cake, we had to talk to the bakers themselves, not just the shop people, and that meant showing up at the bakery. They were nice. And said they could manage a chocolate cake with white marzipan covering it. It'll have ivy leaves on it too, and pretty ornamentation.
Weeee! We'll supply them with our own topper, a very cute white fairy tale castle.
That's if it arrives safely though... A bit nervous about ordering from abroad by a company that doesn't do international shipping or is of an amazon-like size.
But I'm sure it's fine. I'll be pretty pissed if it isn't and I do phone internationally for free, so they should just be careful ;)

Flowers: I think I adore our florist. She had so many great ideas and also agreed to stick to our budget. She's making me a custom bouquet with ivy and that's about everything I know. She wanted to think for a couple of days before making a specific suggestion, but she seems like an impulsive and creative lady, and not to mention I've seen her work before.
VERY excited about the flowers, I must say.

We also ordered our rings yesterday. They'll be quite ordinary gold wedding bands, with our names engraved, but we got to choose a profile and width, so it's still feels a bit custom. I had no idea rings could look that different, but they do.

Today I ordered the place card holders and favours we wanted. Favours aren't normally used in Norway, but I think it's a nice touch. FMIL talked about giving each guest a rose, but they don't last long, do they?


Yes. It's still all about wedding. I'm pretty sure that's all I'll blog about for the next two months.
Or, maybe I'll throw in some stuff about my new job, who knows?