Sunday, January 10, 2010
Changing Location of Blog
Hello to those of you who follow this blog still! I really appreciate you being interested in what is going on in our life! I am going to make an effort to start and keep up my personal blog again, so I am moving this blog (or rather attempting to move this blog) to coincide with my personal blog. Enjoy! Please continue to follow my blog at www.hopeyt.blogspot.com!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Finally Photos!
I am SO excited! 
I only say "finally" because I have been so anxious to see the photos from our wedding. It is just over a month since we got married (four days over a month, in fact), and I have barely seen any pictures.
The photographers' set is ready and online! You can find them here. The password is " hopesebas ."
I cannot tell you how happy we were with our photographers. They were thoughtful and kind, knowledgeable, and they are really wonderful artists, to boot! If you are looking for a great photographer in Portland, I would definitely recommend Drew and Jai, of His and Her Photography. I hope I get to work with them again!
I apologize about the quality of pictures on this post. We do not have any high-resolution images yet, so these are the large thumbnails, from the site. They look great at this size, but check out the site for some nice lush photos!
I only say "finally" because I have been so anxious to see the photos from our wedding. It is just over a month since we got married (four days over a month, in fact), and I have barely seen any pictures.
The photographers' set is ready and online! You can find them here. The password is " hopesebas ."
I cannot tell you how happy we were with our photographers. They were thoughtful and kind, knowledgeable, and they are really wonderful artists, to boot! If you are looking for a great photographer in Portland, I would definitely recommend Drew and Jai, of His and Her Photography. I hope I get to work with them again!
I apologize about the quality of pictures on this post. We do not have any high-resolution images yet, so these are the large thumbnails, from the site. They look great at this size, but check out the site for some nice lush photos!
Monday, August 3, 2009
Crane Chandelier Project, take 2
We had SUCH an amazing time with everyone last week!! What a wedding.... It was so great to have so many people we love there with us!
We just returned today from our honeymoon (it was a wonderful week), and there are so many things I would like to write about.
For now though (I am a TIRED girl), I just wanted to send a link to the Wedding Co.'s blog - we were featured, with pictures and everything! How flattering! And how excited we are to be able to donate many of our 1001 paper cranes from the wedding to a great cause. The Wedding Co. is sponsoring the Crane Chandelier Project, and donating $0.50 for every crane received. This money will go to cancer research. Please check out their website at www.theweddingco.com. We are going to ship our paper creations off as soon as we are able!
Sarah Chapin took this lovely photo of the cranes at our wedding. I hope she doesn't mind I used this photo! There are others that show more action, but this one is nice of just cranes. I am not sure if you can tell from this photo just how many 1001 turned out to be!! These strings were LONG!!
We just returned today from our honeymoon (it was a wonderful week), and there are so many things I would like to write about.
For now though (I am a TIRED girl), I just wanted to send a link to the Wedding Co.'s blog - we were featured, with pictures and everything! How flattering! And how excited we are to be able to donate many of our 1001 paper cranes from the wedding to a great cause. The Wedding Co. is sponsoring the Crane Chandelier Project, and donating $0.50 for every crane received. This money will go to cancer research. Please check out their website at www.theweddingco.com. We are going to ship our paper creations off as soon as we are able!
Sarah Chapin took this lovely photo of the cranes at our wedding. I hope she doesn't mind I used this photo! There are others that show more action, but this one is nice of just cranes. I am not sure if you can tell from this photo just how many 1001 turned out to be!! These strings were LONG!!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Crane Chandelier Project
What is the MOST exciting thing about this is that we made these cranes for ourselves, but they are going to be charitably re-purposed after our wedding. We got an email from a good friend (who is coincidentally getting married two days after we do). She knew that we were in the midst of crane-making, and stumbled upon a blog that mentioned the "Crane Chandelier Project," which is the work of a Toronto artist. The project is to collect 10,000 total cranes, from brides and grooms. The bride and groom sign the crane with their names and the date they are getting (or did get) married. For every crane that is given for the project, 50¢ is going to be donated toward cancer research. Sebastien wrote to the organization hosting the event (The Wedding Co.), and said, "Hey - I know that you are trying to get cranes, and that you usually get them one at a time - would you be willing to still donate 50¢ per crane, if we donate 800 of them?" (or some thing like that).
They said YES!, and so we are psyched! That is $400 (at least!) that we will be able to donate. I am so happy we can do this.
They said YES!, and so we are psyched! That is $400 (at least!) that we will be able to donate. I am so happy we can do this.
That's a Lot of Birds!!
I told you a couple of weeks ago that we had finished with our cranes. Last Wednesday (Canada Day), we had off from work, and we mainly stayed around the house getting things done. We wanted to begin to string the cranes, for decoration, and needed to make some sense of them, so I decided to dump all the colored cranes on our flat file, in the middle of the living room (most of them are there still....) Keep in mind that the flat file is approximately 3'x5' large.
Anyway, I emptied the multi-colored cranes from a box onto the table, and was in awe that they only make up a third of the number of paper cranes we made (it was interesting that without any planning, we had roughly equal numbers of multi-colored, large silver, and small silver cranes). I decided to pull the red ones aside, to use with some of the silver that we want to string. When I did that I thought, "I wonder how many orange cranes we have?," and so on with green and light blue, etc....
Soon enough, the table was covered in little piles of color, and it didn't take any time at all to give them a ROYGBIV-type organization. Once we said "How cool!" enough times, I realized that the center of the table was a perfect place for all the silver cranes as well (the top picture is only half of the silver ones!). You can see the results. We were pretty excited that the pictures turned out so well too.
Anyway, I emptied the multi-colored cranes from a box onto the table, and was in awe that they only make up a third of the number of paper cranes we made (it was interesting that without any planning, we had roughly equal numbers of multi-colored, large silver, and small silver cranes). I decided to pull the red ones aside, to use with some of the silver that we want to string. When I did that I thought, "I wonder how many orange cranes we have?," and so on with green and light blue, etc.... 
Soon enough, the table was covered in little piles of color, and it didn't take any time at all to give them a ROYGBIV-type organization. Once we said "How cool!" enough times, I realized that the center of the table was a perfect place for all the silver cranes as well (the top picture is only half of the silver ones!). You can see the results. We were pretty excited that the pictures turned out so well too.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wonderful Party - and Great Inspiration!
I have been following this blog a bit lately - A Cup of Jo. The blogger also writes columns for MarieClaire and the New York Magazine and Glamour (to name a few), but I really like her personal site a lot. She has lot of good ideas about things to make and do, and she has a really good eye for design. There are two parties I found on her blog, and one separate entry (I think they are old posts) that I thought could be helpful if you are wondering what the Jazz Age style was like, and how it could be carried out.
These should give you an idea:
1930's (new) Depression Party
Great Gadsby Goodbye Party
and lastly (scroll down for this - these dresses are worth it), 1930's Europe
These should give you an idea:
1930's (new) Depression Party
Great Gadsby Goodbye Party
and lastly (scroll down for this - these dresses are worth it), 1930's Europe
Friday, June 26, 2009
One Month and Counting!
We are quickly approaching July!! Our to-do list is getting longer and longer, even as we cross more and more things off.
Sebastien and I have been busy the last few nights, learning how to make neckties. We are sewing his silk tie, as wall at the one for his Best Man. They are looking good so far! This photo shows our living room, in the midst of project-time, and my "sewing table" (a.k.a. a plywood board balanced on a sawhorse). As you can imagine, our 760sf apartment gets pretty full, fairly quickly. You can see one of the silk ties on the table (we haven't started the other one yet), as well as our practice tie, made of cheap muslin. 
This photo is me, with the practice tie that we made this past week. It turned out surprisingly well, so I am excited to see how nice the silk looks!!
Sebastien and I have been busy the last few nights, learning how to make neckties. We are sewing his silk tie, as wall at the one for his Best Man. They are looking good so far! This photo shows our living room, in the midst of project-time, and my "sewing table" (a.k.a. a plywood board balanced on a sawhorse). As you can imagine, our 760sf apartment gets pretty full, fairly quickly. You can see one of the silk ties on the table (we haven't started the other one yet), as well as our practice tie, made of cheap muslin. 
This photo is me, with the practice tie that we made this past week. It turned out surprisingly well, so I am excited to see how nice the silk looks!!
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