back from oregon!

ok, so it's not that exciting following this blog. but now that i'm back in san diego and not running around eugene, i'll try to be better about posting between now and the wedding. that's what i was running all around eugene for - planning this long-distance hasn't really been difficult, but there were a lot of details to finalize once we were actually there. for instance, i hadn't seen the park where we're getting married yet! (i love it)

more dress stuff. the fitting went quite well, though there are some changes that will need to be made. basically, the measurements were just right but the style of the dress wasn't totally floating my boat. it was just meant to be a good gauge of size, so i'm not worried. but i did some pattern hunting and i've come across this - which is rather different from what i've posted before:

it's weird because it's similar in some ways... it definitely has that whole mod style going for it. but i'm realizing that a) i kind of like the sleeveless and b) i think the reason i like this one and the delphine manivet from the previous post so much is that they both have something sort of *interesting* going on, something to look at. while i'm not nuts about this button/bow weirdness, i can imagine something that would normally be totally unlike me - having a big ol' flower there, instead. the thing is, this is an actual pattern that i could buy and send to A. the size is wrong, but she's good at that sort of thing. and this event is, uh, less than 8 weeks away now. holy carp.