Printing Printing Fairy Princess

A story written by Britty and I at 14 and 15, respectively. Not edited, for your enjoyment. (Except the change from comic sans, for the sake of readers)

Pink - Britty; Green - Kelly

Once upon a time...

in a land far far away...

There was a..printing fairy princess

this fairy princess loved to print, but her wicked father thought it was not fitting work for a princess.

So she was forced to stop printing and become a

'proper' princess. but she longed to print again, for her true love worked at the print shop...

She started to sneak out to the print shop every day at lunch...

but one day, her father's trusted servant saw her leaving the shop. he secretly liked her, so he...

Didn't tell her father. He told the princess to never go there again or else he would tell ..
but she loved the print guy so much, she tried to go once more, to tell him goodbye, and confess her love
But her father's servant saw her and told her father. Her father went to the print shop to wait for the princess...
her father pretended to be a merchant and he hid in the back room, to wait for her to arrive.
The princess walked into the print shop and went to find the print guy
he had learned of her father's plan, and he knew that she liked him, so he pretended to not know her.
She was confused but he sneaked her a note telling her that her father was there. She tried to leave before her father was her but he jumped out of the back room before she could leave
the print guy had a bright idea. 'here miss, this is the stationery you ordered.'
The princess smiled and took the stationery. "Hello father.Just picking up some stationery. what are you doing here?"
'i thought i'd pick up a book...'
The princess nodded and headed out of the print shop
but the servant knew the truth, and he vowed to tell the king
The servant was heading to see the king but the print guy stopped him and...
tried to convince him not too
The servant didn't know if he should tell or not. He know if the king knew that he had not told he would be very mad.
The servant couldn't decide if he should let the one he loved have the chance to be happy, or do what he was paid to.
The servant decided not to tell as long as the princess was careful to not be seen at the print shop
One day a girl came to the village. She was so beautiful, that all the men, including the print guy, fell for her. but the servant felt that there was something odd about this girl
The princess knew the print guy liked the new girl and this broke her heart...
she had no friends, because her father thought it was 'unprincess-like' so she turned to the king's servant, telling him everything.
The servant understood and went to talk to the print guy about this
It was hard for him, because he still loved the princess, but he tried to reason with the print guy.
The print guy didnt know if he loved the princess or if he loved the new girl. He liked both of course..
the servant suspected that the new girl was an enchantress...
He decided to talk with the new girl and try and find out if she was
The servant soon realized that beneath her beautiful exterior, the girl was evil...he didn't understand why he wasn't under her spell, but he was glad all the same.
The servant went to warn the print guy but the print guy didnt believe him
The servant noticed that the print guy looked a little sickly. was the enchantress stealing life from her victims?
The servant thought that maybe if the king believed him the new girl would be locked away forever..
The servant was shocked to see that the king was also enchanted. he was twice her age!
The servant didnt know what to do! So we went to find a book that would maybe tell how to break the spell
He searched through the nearby villages, trying to find someone to help him. One day, when he was about to give up, a girl approached him.
She knew how to break the spell. she was also a enchantress but a good one.
She only used her powers when she needed to, to help others. She told the servant that she needed him to help her gather the ingredients. She kinda had a crush on him..
He agreed. The good enchantress gave him a list of things and he left to find them. He had to get..
he realized he didn't know what the things on the list were, he needed the enchantress to help him.
So he headed back to get her to help him.
she was happy to see him, and she got ready to go
After she was ready they left to gather everything. After a while he started to like her too..
they found all except the last item they needed. they couldn't find a dragon feather anywhere. all tha local dragons were the scaled variety
The servant was worried that they would never find a dragon with feathers but then a man said he knew of a place with feather dragons but it was very far away
the servant almost cried. it was far away indeed, and he was almost out of money. He was also sad at the thought of leaving the enchantress..
The enchantress asked if the man if there was anyway to get to the feather dragons and he knew of aplace where the elves had a train that could take them anywhere but it cost alot of money
'oh no,' she thought, how can we get that money? The servant made a sacrifice, he sold a ring the princess had given him, even though he still loved her too.
After getting the money they got on the train and headed to where the dragons where
on the train, the enchantress fell asleep against him, with her head on his shoulder, and he felt that it had been worth selling the ring
Once they had gotten to where the feather dragons lived the servant told one of the dragons his story and gladly gave him a feather
Both the servant and enchantress were awed by how beautiful the feather, and the dragons themselves were. It was an effort to leave the beautiful creatures.
The servant knew he had to leave so he could save his town so he thanked the dragon for the feather and headed back to the train with the enchantress
They traveled back to his village. It was horrible, the men were all pale and weak, but all still firmly entranced by the evil enchantress.
The good enchantress made a spell to break the evil enchantress's spell and soon the men where back to normal and the print guy loved the princess again
The servant was happy for them, but he was sad, because now the good enchantress would have to leave.
The good enchantress asked the servant to come with her but he didnt know if he could
he told the king, and the king thought of something. what if they awarded the enchantress by making her the protector of the village?
The servant told the enchantress and she liked this idea. She agreed and became the protector of the village
The servant married her and they convinced the king to let the princess marry the print guy. but was this story from the land of fairies really over?
Yes it was...for now...

Yay, Candy!

After several weeks of not really doing any wedding stuff, except the occasional
project and sending invites to people I missed the first time.. I have officially
ordered our candy for our candy buffet table.

At the advice of the internet.. my number one resource.. I decided to cut down
the number of candies and up the amount of each instead. So now there are roughly..
75 lbs of candy headed towards my door? Wow.. I feel like a major fatty. The candy
buffet will have little baggies and is actually going to be our wedding favor. With
a lot of trial and error, I actually printed and punched out our own stickers for it.
.. I even made a little slits down the back, so you can actually get them off the paper.
Yay! That's one more thing that's basically finished.

My other project for today is getting lumber for and starting to build our bed frame!
It's kinda a crazy platform bed at first that I basically had my dad design based
off of a bed I briefly saw on HGTV. It's basically a dimensional frame for the box spring, which will sit on the floor with no legs. It is six inches wide all around,
and then the box spring will sit inside it, flush with the top of the frame. The
mattress will sit on top, sort of platformed. Yes yes.. I hope it's easier to make
than describe. Anyway, gotta go get wood now!

Wow, I'm lazy

But then I doubt that anyone would be sitting on the edge of their seat, waiting for me to update this old thing.

Lots of good things have been accomplished..

We finally met up with the photographer to talk about ..photos.

I got most of my bridesmaid gifts completed.

I informed the groomsmen (though not to their eternal pleasure) of their wedding attire.

Calum and I both got full time jobs, so no possibility of living in my parent's basement!

Calum's suit finally arrived, though it took double the time specified to get here.. and unless they're up at his belly button, the pants need to be let out. .. I swear my measurements aren't wrong, his butt just got bigger. Mmhmm.

With the suit, I also received my garter. Which is a little pointless, since we're not doing the garter toss, but I digress.

I made a little chalkboard sign to guide wedding guests out of a thrift store mirrored tray and spray paints.

Enjoy this incredibly attractive face I'm making.

Umm.. umm.. I finished Hannah's bouquet, but that was awhile ago, and I may have mentioned
that already.

I did mail the invitations, despite never getting around to taking a picture of any of them. I know it's early, but no one's RSVP'd. It's makin' me sad.

In other news, I spilled rubbing alcohol on my keyboard, now none of my top keys work.
It's pretty great, my volume down button is irreparably broken, and three different keys work as volume up buttons.. including the original, which keeps turning the volume up on its own. I've come home several times to hear a loud popping noise, the computer repeatedly trying to make itself louder, but reaching its limit. While I typed that sentence, it did it, yet again. But my lovely fiance has ordered me a new one on Amazon. Unfortunately, this is a three day weekend, curses!

Anyway, think I've rambled enough. <3

Learning Things.. good, I guess?

I was a bridesmaid at Laura's wedding this week. Well, technically Maid of Honor, but the only other bridesmaid was her now-sister-in-law Amy, who was the Matron of Honor. Though the set up was intensely frustrating (we do not come from a family of decision makers, and apparently Laura didn't marry into one either) it ended up looking really nice.

I must say, most of it coming together was thanks to Amanda, who was the wedding planner/assistant photographer.. etc. She did a very nice job with the space given. Unfortunately,I didn't end up getting any pictures. I think I even lost my camera, possibly. But I'll still need to check on that.

This wedding.. has inspired me to plan and plan until I can plan no more. I love Laura, but the stress is not something I want to have to deal with. It did give me an idea of what goes on for a rehearsal. I had a general idea, but it was good to see one in action. I also learned that having live music, or fading the music at the end of marches really cuts down on awkward, minute-long pauses.

Anyway, I'm all pumped up and ready to make some stuff! I've started on my bridesmaid headpieces. I had Hannah's done, and it was quite pretty. Unfortunately, it was quite a bit larger and more ornate than my own. Maybe that is vain, but I also was concerned it might obscure half her head. See, I think of others. I'm planing to make the others similar, and ..add a clip, so they're not holding them on. :D

See those large tissue paper pom pom flower things in the background? On the sewing machine with the mustache? Those are fated to end up as a part of this kinda set up.


We will, however, just have an arch, rather than.. a gazebo type contraption. So
hopefully the tree branches are low hanging enough to have some hanging in the background. Lighter aqua tissue is on its way, along with red and aqua tulle (with expensive enough shipping, my goodness, it can't cost 11 dollars to ship tulle and tissue paper). Maybe I can find some silver tissue that's not a dollar per sheet or only sold in 100 sheet packs. I need more colors so it doesn't look extremely patriotic up there, the turquoise is a little darker blue than I thought.

I'll stop rambling, but here's a picture of my wedding dress with the newly acquired crinoline. (it is super puffy and makes me like the dress a lot more) Hannah, don't worry, I'm pretty sure Calum doesn't even remember this blog exists. Everyone, ignore the bra.

Stop that

I've decided that people should probably stop getting engaged ages after me and then getting married before me. Not cool, guys.. not cool. I think there were more weddings/engagements this year that the last ten combined.

Anyway, I've finally just bit the bullet with addressing envelopes. I stamped our names + my address on the back with a.. less than perfect stamp I made myself, then I had to add decorative brackets and hearts.. of course. I decided to just go ahead and pencil on the names/addresses in my approximation of the font I've used in most of the wedding designs. (except the Save the Dates.. that font is way too ornate for me) Then I went over them with my trusty thin tip Sharpie.

Well, if you must know, the Sharpie started acting up about ten in, so I switched to these manga artist pens I borrowed from Calum several months ago. And when I say borrowed, he let me use his laptop and these happened to be in the same bag as it.

As soon as I get six more addresses, I'll be all done on that front. Then I have to seal and stamp the envelopes. We decided to hand out as many of them in person as we possibly can (aka we're cheap) so that will save on stamps. As for the sealing, the envelopes have the most wretched adhesive possible, so I will be recruiting some sort of damp sponge to my cause.

Want a badly shot picture of the envelopes? Sure ya do.

But I fail at taking acceptable pictures on iphoto at night. So those will have to wait.

Blind Sided

Pardon my pun. I watched The Blind Side today, and ended up being pleasantly surprised.



I am definitely not a fan of sports movies in general. Not that other movies aren't predictable,
but are we really supposed to be surprised anymore when the underdog team turns over a new leaf, surprising critics and taking home the gold? That's uplifting and all, but really?

I guess I'm just a sucker for stories about people coming from hard backgrounds and overcoming nearly insurmountable odds. Okay, I know that sounds a lot like what I previously said made sports movies so predictable. Leave me be, this movie had me in tears, alright?

Go watch it so you too can say that it was really good for a sports movie.. or for any type of movie in general, really. Excluding horror, of course.

Mish Mash

Another lesson has been learned today. Don't apply lipstick in a moving car at night by the light of a cellphone. (Unless you're an experienced professional?) It will result in bright red mustachios, which while amusing, are not the best look for anyone except Yosemite Sam.

But anyway, what do you think of red lipstick on me? I'm considering it for my wedding lipstick.


Is it too bright? I must say, the flash didn't help with that any. I'm not a vampire, I swear. Anyway, voice your opinions, please.

I had something very (ver ver) important to say, but I've forgotten it. Surprisingly.