Public Service Announcement
I’ve been receiving a lot of emails over the last few weeks that encourage sending Xmas/holiday cards to “Any Soldier” at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Please don’t do this! Walter Reed will NOT deliver mail addressed to anonymous or “any soldier”. [cite Snopes and Walter Reed]
The good news is that you [...]

5.6 earthquake
Did the earth move for you, baby? It sure did for me last night. A quiet evening of watching DVDs was rudely interrupted by an earthquake of a magnitude I haven’t felt in all my years in the SF Bay Area. 5.6 on the Richter scale is pretty scary.
My husband and [...]

Exactly one year ago I was in NYC shooting the completed projects for the 1st half of my book. We shot part of them in Central Park and the rest in the photographer’s studio. A few months later, I was back in NYC to finish up the photography for the remaining projects. Right after that, [...]

Happy October!
Beginning today, I’ve opened up a new section on the site called DIY Halloween where (big surprise) I’ll be publishing all sorts of creepy crafty goodness all month.
The direct URL is: http://halloween.diybride.com. Those of you who subscribe via an RSS feed will need to subscribe to the new URL to get the Halloween posts [...]

It’s officially Fall! Yay!

I’m on a short blog break this week. I’ll be back on October 01.

Hey everyone,
As I’m certain you’re aware, Martha Stewart has teamed up with the Today Show to throw an ultra-fab wedding for one lucky couple. Viewers (that’s you) get to vote on nifty things like the bridal attire and vendor selections. Neat, right?
Well, one of the nominated vendors for the cake selection is Baked NYC [...]

What’s been happening in the forums that you may have missed?
* Khris’ review of 4 paper cutters
* Mood boards debut
* Where to find large cardstock for DIY pocketfolds
* Inspiration and info on wedding tents

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Have a safe and wonderful weekend!

I’ll be taking a blog break for most of next week. Have a lovely week and I’ll see you around the 20th.

I wanted to extend my sincerest thanks to all of the wonderful blogs and sites that link in to or mention DIY Bride. I’m finding lots of incredibly fun, smart, and stylish sites that I might not have known about. My most recent favorites:

A $10,000 Wedding
Everything Destination Wedding
Soiree Special Events
Chapel Bound
Parisian Events
The Bride of [...]

Tag! I’m it!
The ever-fabulous Laura from Soiree Special Events tagged me yesterday. Here are the rules:
Players list 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, players then tags 8 people by posting their names and makes sure [...]