Happy Mothers Day!

Dear Mom,

I hope you had a fabulous day.  I wish we lived in the same city so we could have spent the day together.  Just wanted to let you know that I feel so lucky to have you as a Mom.  You have taught me so much and have filled my life with joy.

I hope that if I have children one day, I will be as good of a mother as you have been to me.

Love,
Jenny

New Treasures

Courtesy of Edmonton.

Why didn't I think of that ?

BHLDN

The story of me asking my bridesmaids to be bridesmaids is very anti-climactic. Darren proposed the day before I went home to Edmonton for Christmas (he had to come home a couple days later than me because of a new job). We always knew that we were going to be having a very small wedding. That was the one thing that we had discussed ahead of time and because of this we didn't even know if the wedding would be big enough to need a bridal party. We were home for 2 weeks and kept saying "We will start thinking about the wedding when we get back to Vancouver". That quickly changed when Darren, myself and my family went on a ski trip to Banff right after Christmas. Banff was on the top of the list of where we would want to get married. My parents saying "we are here, you might as well look at venues" got us into wedding mode fast (or at least got me into wedding mode, Darren is the most relaxed person of all time). Long story short, we decided that we would have very small wedding parties. I decided that I NEEDED to ask my girls in person. I might not be back in Edmonton again till the summer!

First was my sister Jill. That was easy:

Me: " Hey Jill. Want to be a bridesmaid?"

Jill: "Ok! That would be fun."

DONE.

Next was Brittany. I wanted her to be my Maid of Honor. She was on a different ski trip with some friends for new years and would get back into town a day or so before I was to head back to Vancouver. I decided I would wait till she got back, and I would tell ask her while we were saying our goodbyes. In my head it was so nice and special. I kept sending Brittany subtle hints like "hey, coming back soon?", "how is your ski trip? Hope you come home soon". The snow was amazing and the weather was great, so they decided to stay longer. The day they were going to drive back (the same night I would fly to Vancouver), Brittany texts me saying that her friend broke his wrist and she can't leave. I send her this text:

That sucks! Hope your friend feels better. I guess I won't see you again, so want to be my Maid of Honor?

My friend Katharine was next on the list (and the last girl). I just assumed that I would see her again before I headed back to Vancouver, but our schedules just didn't work out. A couple hours before I left to the airport, I called her and texted and got no response which meant that she must be working! I quickly headed to her work to see if she was there. I must have looked flustered because when I asked one of her co-workers "is Katharine here?!" she said "No, is it an emergency". Well no, no it's not. I decided to be really classy and write Katharine a will you be my bridesmaid Facebook message. Little did I know, Katharine rarely checks her Facebook, so days later I had to send her an embarrassing text that read "Hey Katharine, check your Facebook".

That is the story of me asking my bridesmaids to be bridesmaids. I love them all so much and we are going to have so much fun together on November 12th.

I did redeem myself a bit with Brittany when I got her this 99 cent flute at goodwill.

New Toiletries Bag

Here it is

Navy and Teal- a great combo

These are going up to my shop today.

Contact me if you have any questions! info@jennyandrews.ca

Film racing

My fiance Darren works in film and motion graphics. For the past 3 years we have gotten together with a handful of our friends (who mostly also work in film) to be part of the 24 hour film race.

You are given a theme and an action that need to be incorporated into your 4 minute short film. You have 24 hours once the theme and action are revealed to come up with an idea, write a script, shoot the film and do all the post-production (edit, sound mix, graphics, etc). This always means staying up the whole night and working your butt off (I actually go to sleep during the times where I am no help, like post production).

The film race was this Friday/Saturday for the City of Vancouver. You compete in your city and then if you win, your film competes with all the other major North American cities. Very fun.

Anyways, I am not able to show the film that was created this year, because it has not been previewed yet, but I have posted the film from 2010. The film won in Vancouver (very exciting), and then won 3rd place in North America. Another cool thing: Darren won best acting overall in the whole race!

Enjoy the film:


It's Hard to Live in the City from Mitchell Stookey on Vimeo.

There is a winner. Her name is Jill.

Congrats!

That Mini triangle bag traveled quite some ways to find its owner.