Swirly nipples are the best...

So the sewing that I was planning on doing when I started this blog has sort of come to a standstill mainly because I have gone in to OHMIGODIMGETTINGMARRIED mode and have started to panic about all the things I haven't done yet for the wedding. Cue panic buying at Hobbycraft! I still have my lofty ambitions of sewing my own clothes but maybe not until after 6th November! I have made some small progress in that I've now got tracing paper, chalk markers and proper scissors...

Masquerade hen do @ Raouls, Oxford

It was also my hen do this weekend just gone which was a brilliant weekend with all my best girl friends in Oxford! We stayed at one of the colleges and the whole weekend was so much fun and lovely to have everyone all there together to celebrate. There was a treasure hunt/photo hunt in the morning, lovely lunch and then cocktail making and dancing in the evening all with a masquerade theme. Here is all of us together with our masks on. I'm the one at the front in green with the gold mask. The whole weekend was a complete surprise to me with me not even knowing where we were going until we actually arrived at Oxford. I have to say, I chose excellent bridesmaids, they planned an epic weekend for me and I know they will be amazing on the wedding day. 

Speaking of the wedding it is one month today!!!!! I'm getting very excited now but also rather scared about all the things that still need to be done. I made a terrifying list on Thursday that ran to 4 sides of A4 paper of stuff that needs doing and I'm still finding things to add to it. If any of you out there are planning a wedding, listen to all the lovely advice that says do not leave DIY things until the last minute as you will regret it! I had two whole years to get stuff done but it's all getting done now...fail Kirsty, epic fail! Still the list will get crossed off gradually and I will just have to delegate things I think, luckily my sister (one of the bridesmaids) isn't working at the moment and is super crafty so she has now been put in charge of making all of the centre pieces and I will be dealing with the stationery stuff which is more my forte! In some ways I just want the day to be here so I can celebrate with all my friends and family and not have my brain taken up with purple glitter and table plans!