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by ratesjul
Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:41 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

I cut out all the fabric pieces for the actual dress over the weekend (except the sleeves). A little scary, a lot of pattern piece rearrangement geometry, but it fit the pieces of fabric I wanted to use.
by ratesjul
Thu May 19, 2022 12:35 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

The conclusion of our scientific testing was that the cake tasted amazing each time, the amazingness did not diminish too much through being refrigerated, frozen, or warmed up, and we have made a good choice. (Still have to place the actual order but they don't need a lot of lead time because this i...
by ratesjul
Mon May 16, 2022 2:42 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

The typical format of a cake tasting, as I understand it, involves sampling multiple flavours of cake and making a decision on a favourite (or a favourite combination). For us it involved 4 sampling sessions... each of the same cake. You might ask why? Could we not make up our minds easily? The loca...
by ratesjul
Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:30 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

Wedding weekend activities partially planned (wedding day is the Tuesday of a 4 day weekend), further plans for that waiting until case counts are low enough to be willing to eat at a restaurant. Paid deposit for hireage of tables, bench seating, a dozen chairs (will use venue tables and chairs for ...
by ratesjul
Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:00 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

Wedding website created... we started with TheKnot, and hated some of the lack of options to edit things we disliked seeing. Then we moved on to weddingwire - and discovered that only US addresses were accepted. So we landed on WithJoy. Photographer booked Caterer test meal sampled, caterer booked T...
by ratesjul
Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:46 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

We're starting to reach the stage of wedding planning where putting together a wedding website seems like a good idea. Do any of you have any recommendations and/or good or bad experiences with any in particular? It seems like the US ones are kind of the gold standard, even though we aren't US based...
by ratesjul
Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:41 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

Made a toile of the bodice for a dress pattern I thought I'd like to use, and decided it needs a lot of modifying to be what I want. Time to pick another pattern probably.
by ratesjul
Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:16 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

I'm not sure how "leaning towards traditional" ours is, but there are certainly some traditional aspects to it. We've now paid the deposit for the large pretty tent (even in summer one has to plan for potential rain, and if it doesn'train we still need sun protection), and are back to talk...
by ratesjul
Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:01 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

Milestone: on Wednesday we filled in the paperwork to book our venue (and thus set the date in stone), and today the venue has confirmed our booking (the events person was on leave).

Ok now it starts to be real.
by ratesjul
Sat May 22, 2021 6:56 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

It was both helpful in some unexpected ways and unhelpful in other ways. Saw a tent company that we had discounted due to expecting it to cost too much, but they don't, and their quote is likely to be what we go with. For two people who don't drink much figuring out drink offerings is proving compli...
by ratesjul
Thu May 13, 2021 5:18 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wedding Planning!
Replies: 833
Views: 202920

Re: Wedding Planning!

Aaargh weddings cost so much money! We have quotes for venue, catering, tent, and ballpark guesses for a lot of other things... and we're at the upper end of our budget. We have no real idea what a photographer, a cake, or providing beverages is going to set us back (funnily enough those are the top...
by ratesjul
Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:34 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: What is in a name?
Replies: 27
Views: 6043

Re: What is in a name?

Heather Lynn Rebekah Lynn Btw, I like your spelling of Rebekah! Stephanie Lynn Rebekah Heather Alexandra Lynn Lynn Alexandra I think either of these works just as well. David Andreas Oliver James James Oliver I think either of these works just as well too James David Joshua James James Joshua Either...
by ratesjul
Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:26 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Monthly Photo Challenge
Replies: 249
Views: 51565

What do I do every day? Wait in hope that one of these will ring and I'll have a job... an interview, or an opportunity to submit the cv, or best of all, a job. Dang do I hear that... I thought perhaps I should update - one of them did ring, and the interview went well, and now I have a two month c...
by ratesjul
Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:59 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Christchurch Earthquake - 6.3 - Ratey is OK
Replies: 8
Views: 2639

Yes, I'm in Auckland, which is rather a distance away from the Earthquake (though I think right now the thoughts of everyone in the country are right there). My brother and his wife live in Christchurch - she works in the central city, which has some absolutely terrifying news at the moment. They're...
by ratesjul
Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:34 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: How does your library work?
Replies: 21
Views: 4889

I haven't used the wi-fi at the library, but they have big signs directing you on how to use it scattered all over the library (which I haven't read, because, well, I haven't needed to use it). up until about a year ago, you needed a library card and pin to reserve and log on to computers in the ups...
by ratesjul
Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
Replies: 595
Views: 159401

Alea, I think so far you and I are the only ISFJs on here. I actually wouldn't have guessed that we would get the same, but it makes sense in some ways. :)
I'm one of those too.
by ratesjul
Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:06 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Crafty Craftiness
Replies: 655
Views: 143321

Wow! Very stylish.

Right now, I'm procrastinating. I have a 21st birthday 30cmx30cm double scrapbook page that I have to put together. One page about me, one page about the birthday girl.
by ratesjul
Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:44 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Nesting! Decor in Rooms, Apts, houses etc
Replies: 288
Views: 67193

(well, I'd probably start talking about missing out on the lavender ice-cream, but that's just me) On which note, we popped by the ice cream shop and they said that so long as we gave them 24 hours' notice, they could make it for us on request once it is in season. Not fair. Now I want Icecream. Of...
by ratesjul
Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:56 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Monthly Photo Challenge
Replies: 249
Views: 51565

What do I do every day?

Wait in hope that one of these will ring and I'll have a job... an interview, or an opportunity to submit the cv, or best of all, a job.

Image
by ratesjul
Fri Feb 11, 2011 12:14 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: I am that is! Brian Jacques 1939-2011
Replies: 16
Views: 4422

Ratey!!!!!
Hi.
by ratesjul
Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:42 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Monthly Photo Challenge
Replies: 249
Views: 51565

And what do I do every day? I walk by this:
You have such cool things to walk past every day!
by ratesjul
Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: I am that is! Brian Jacques 1939-2011
Replies: 16
Views: 4422

I've read some of his books from time to time - some when I was younger, others when I was older. I even had a map of the books at one point - I think I gave it to my mother the librarian. There's a song that always reminds me of Redwall, but I don't recall what song it is. I used to hear it fairly ...
by ratesjul
Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:52 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Crafty Craftiness
Replies: 655
Views: 143321

I love seeing the whole postcard project all together! :)

I've been making Christmas cards this week, and second guessing which ones look good.

Of course, then I managed to send them without taking photos of them. I'm silly like that sometimes.
by ratesjul
Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:25 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The Procrastination Thread
Replies: 154
Views: 75322

I should be making Christmas cards so that they actually have a chance of getting sent this side of Christmas.

One of these days maybe i'll figure out that I always set too many tasks for myself at Christmas time.
by ratesjul
Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:57 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: C is for Cookie
Replies: 19
Views: 4499

I don't even know what three quarters of those options are!
by ratesjul
Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:55 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
Replies: 1265
Views: 370874

I'm reading (partly rereading) the Vatta trilogy by Elizabeth Moon - from memory I started to get annoyed by it around book 3, which is where i'm up to this time.

I'm also reading Andrew Greeley's"Bishop and the Missing L Train" which I'm enjoying.
by ratesjul
Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:38 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Dear You 2.0
Replies: 2616
Views: 727192

Ah, so THAT's why I didn't find it. I was looking for the 23rd onwards!! That is SO damn cool. Okay, so I already knew it was so damned cool already. :) And it looks as if it must have taken simply hours and hours of work. Well, the other way to put it together is for everyone to post a picture of t...
by ratesjul
Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:43 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Dear You 2.0
Replies: 2616
Views: 727192

Dear You,

Is there a way to see the entire collage, or are we meant to put it together for ourselves?

A4 is pretty damn nifty too!
by ratesjul
Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:37 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: NaNoWriMo
Replies: 221
Views: 79406

I've gotten to the stage where it seems as if it wouldn't be November without attempting a novel.

Perhaps at some point I should stop ignoring them after the end of the month.
by ratesjul
Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:43 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: My Life in a Literary Agency
Replies: 427
Views: 131827


1. I've exchanged several emails with Tamora Pierce
So have I.
Okay, just not during my day job.
by ratesjul
Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:56 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
Replies: 1691
Views: 469345

I managed to figure out how to install my digital set top box with minimal instructions and a reasonable amount of trial and error today.

And yesterday evening I managed to make my dvd drive work properly by editing my computer registry (always a scary thing to contemplate)
by ratesjul
Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:43 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Pweb scrapbook
Replies: 51
Views: 14802

I have pics from meeting some people, and if they say it's okay, I don't mind sharing. I don't mind sharing other stuff too, but if it's archive stuff I'd prefer my real name be left out. I'm thinking of future students and I don't want to make it easier than necessary for them. I have a pic or thr...
by ratesjul
Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:15 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Help Starlooker Solve an Argument
Replies: 39
Views: 13486

Without seeing a picture of a moose (I'd never seen a moose before. Except perhaps at the bottom of the CN tower), I'd have said goat. But there are a LOT of resemblances to the moose.
by ratesjul
Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:59 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: As I wait for one net I cast out...
Replies: 49
Views: 20076

That looks cool.
by ratesjul
Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:54 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wanting what you can't have: Discontinued Stuff
Replies: 32
Views: 12209

I think you can still get Vanilla coke here, but I haven't looked.

I occasionally crave mini peanut butter cups and twizzlers. You can sometimes get the former here, but not the latter.

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