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The newlyweds at ACL, waiting to see the Afghan Whigs.

Just to catch you up...Adam and I eloped last Thursday! There are photo's coming, so I'll save the story until then, but it's official, we're hitched! We woke up Friday morning and after sending off the sneak peeq orders, we headed over to ACL where we enjoyed amazing performances by Weezer, Wild Belle, Florence and The Machine and one of my all time fav bands, The Black Keys. Saturday I was at the market on South Congress where I got caught in the rain and as a result, Sunday I was taken down by a cold. Monday I set up again at the market for a rain day and still managed to make it to Monday Movie Night to see Pitch Perfect, which was hilarious! Tuesday morning we heard that we got the house we love and I tried to catch up in the studio as much as I could before a lengthy board meeting that night. Wednesday we signed the lease for the house and then I panicked thinking about how much has to be packed in the next two weeks...eeek!!

Today I finally had a few minutes to catch my breath, tidy up the house and of course blog. I however can't sit still for too long as I have a hot date at the Restoration Hardware store scoping out beds. We are finally upgrading to a king and I feel there is only so much you can tell about furniture online. I want to stand next to it and touch it. The new house is about 3 times the size of my apartment, and Adam does not have any furniture (a blessing) so the bed is the first in a list of new additions to our home we'll have to make. A tv console, kitchen table and the bed are immediate needs. The rest can be added slowly as I find pieces I love.

It's fun to shop for new furniture, but tough too as sometimes the pressure to find the "perfect piece" in a short amount of time backfires. A few years ago, I moved into an apartment which required the majority of the floors to be covered in rugs. I had to shop lightning fast as this came up only a few days before I was moving in and the result was that I bought an 11' x 13' rug that fit the space and I kind of liked. I paid a lot for and therefore made myself deal with it for the 18 months I lived there, but each day I began to detest it more and more and ended up giving it to my mom when I moved. As I had a massive purge only a year ago, I'd prefer to only buy furniture which I love at this point.

I'd love recommendations of local furniture stores here in Austin! I'm pretty set on online places, and have been obsessively following One Kings Lane, but would like to check out local shops as well.

Last week there seemed too few Instagram photos to bother with a post and then BAM! There are so many now that I have to split it into to two!

Out with friends...on our way to dirty 6th from dinner

This months inspiration boards in my studio

White chocolate chips for a baking creation

I gained a new respect for chocolatiers during this process

I finally figured it out and boy was it worth it! I made Red Velvet Cake Balls with White Chocolate Shells and they were ah-mazing!!

Beauty in a parking lot

Wearing the Hisa Going in Circle Necklace

At a meeting with the wedding planners (I stole this from Adam!)

I'm a bit sleep deprived today. I had to get up super early and even with a tiny nap, I'm pretty out of it with only 4 hours sleep. Is it better to power on through it sluggishly or take another nap? If I didn't have so much to do before the show tomorrow night I would opt for a nap...but even sluggish work is getting stuff done right now. I will however make a cup of tea. That will help, tea makes everything better.

On a fun note, Adam and I had our first big planning meeting with the wedding planners today. I may even be starting to get excited about he wedding. I haven't really talked about it much here, but Adam and I decided that we wanted a teeny tiny, very dressy wedding. It's fun planning a lavish event for 4o guests and much much less drama than if were having 150+ like it was starting to grow to when we began planning.

*sigh*, Now I must get back to work so I can at the very least go to bed a decent hour...

...there are no ducks in a row right now, they are all up the air. I received the letter from my apartment complex this week that I have 60 days left on my lease. The problem with a 6 month lease is that the minute you get settle in, it's time to think about packing it all up again. Fortunately, Adam and I have already been on a house hunting mission to find a home together. This has already become quite the production! Not something that is a quick process or something that will be finalized for some time. Oh to be able to just click my heels together 3 times and be in my new home!

In between wondering where I will live when March rolls around, the last few weeks I have full steam ahead entered the world of event planning in the south...and well, its been trying. Let's just say that yesterday I decided to give up and get a wedding planner. I'll admit its pretty hard when you try to plan an event in a city where you are still kind of a stranger. I have no idea half of the areas of the city that people tell me about, forget about knowing who's the best caterer and what venues are the right size for our wedding.

In case you were wondering, I am managing time to still get some work done around here. In fact, Manic Trout has been getting busier every day...so much is going to be happening this year! The only part that worries me is that it will coincide with moving and the wedding. Oy. I have a headache already just thinking about it all. I don't really want to talk about it yet though out of plain all superstition. To tease you a bit...there is some local press in the works, new stores to carry Manic Trout and a very special line inspired by certain upcoming events coming this Spring!

The only reason I'm not headed for a nervous breakdown is that everything which is keeping me busy is all very happy and positive. Not to say it does not have its huge stress induced meltdowns and of course clashes as two very independent people start to mesh their very busy lives together. However we are trying incredibly hard to alternate arguments about wedding size with date nights. I swear we had such a fantastic date night last night that we fell head over heels in love all over again.

I'm hoping for lots of little bits of wonderful to get me through the next 9 months...its going to be one hell of a year, that's for certain!

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