Final Florist

Quick update! 

This post will be much shorter than usual.  I finally picked a florist, & the one that I did not choose made it very easy for me to walk away from them.

I already felt like Jakob at Beyond Details was backing me into a corner when he offered me a discount that was only valid for one day, but then yesterday I received an email from him saying that he had another bride looking at the August 4th date & he wanted to make sure that it was okay with me to let that date go.  I replied, very professionally, that I had been having trouble making a decision & that I didn't want to take away from their business in any way, but that him emailing me saying that he had another client for that day made it easier & that he could go ahead & book them. 

He responded a few hours later saying that he would much rather do my wedding since I am already one of their brides & it would be easier for him to do the wedding at the venue they own.  He said that I had until lunch-time today to get back with him if I had a change of heart.  I'm not usually comfortable rushing into decisions even if I know it's exactly what I want, but I was already having pretty big doubts about BD doing our flowers.  Whether he actually has another bride or not, I don't know.  I'm starting to think that all could have been made up so that I would hurry up & book them.  But the whole situation did not sit right with me, so I replied that I had already booked the other florist as soon as I turned him down & made a deposit today.  I did it in the nicest, most professional way that I knew how because we still have to work with BD for our catering & wedding site. 

I am pleased to announce that The Garden Gate Florist in Monroe will be doing all of our flowers & decorations :)

Shout out to my MOH, Haley for running all over creation (& getting lost in the ghetto) with me today to get the deposit & everything taken care of!  I truly don't know what I would do without you!

One last thing: All of the "C"s that I painted to go on our Christmas tree next year.  Do the colors look familiar?  & I got all turquoise & red ornaments too!

Six Christmases

We've got the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon movie Four Christmases beat by 2...Winning!

It may even take as long to read as the movie takes to watch...sorry friends!

I am just dying to make the post next year called "Our First Christmas."  I mean, we have already had 3 other Christmases together & this one doesn't really count as a "first"...it's more like a pre-first Christmas. 

Anyway, somehow (I have no idea how), we found time to spend with all four of our extended families this year as well as celebrating with just immediate.  I guess I could just go in order :)

CHRISTMAS #1

We had dinner with Anthony's dad's side of the family (The Camps) at his uncle's house on the Tuesday before Christmas.  One thing that I love about these celebrations is that they never happen on the actual holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.).  For a couple who is trying desperately to work out enough time for each family, that is a life-saver!  My other favorite part about Christmas with the Camps...the games.  When you first arrive, an index card with a celebrity name is pinned to your back & you have to ask questions about the person to guess.  The first year I came, I was Lindsay Lohan (Anthony was Michael Phelps).  This year, I was Cameron Diaz.  I can't remember who Anthony got because I was so focused on the fact that it would have been awesome had he been given the name "Tim Tebow" :)  After dinner, we all go into the living room to play another game.  A large picture of a celebrity is covered up with a bunch of numbered sticky notes (like 40 of them).  As your turn in the circle of people comes around, you have to pick a number, answer the question associated with the number, & if you get it right the matching sticky note gets taken down.  The closer to the face, the harder they are.  I think I only got one right...if that :(  But then Mitchell guessed the person (Bruce Willis) within maybe 10 sticky notes being taken down.  Another highlight of the evening was the fact that Anthony's parents were able to pull Andrew up on Skype.  We couldn't figure out why in the world it kept disconnecting...until Micheal (Anthony's cousin) pointed out that whenever the phone rings it interrupts the Internet.  Then, he showed us how to disconnect the phone (a tactic he learned during Fantasy Baseball Draft) so that it wouldn't disconnect the computer anymore.  (But then when I went into the kitchen & sat on the phone, I thought I had turned it on...he had left it on so it would be off the hook...so I cut it off & they lost him again...oops.)  I also made ornaments (where you put acrylic paint in & shake it up) to give out at the end of the night, but they were a complete failure.  The paint slipped off the glass, wasn't dry, was leaking out the top, etc.

CHRISTMAS #2 

On Thursday afternoon after Anthony got off work, we drove up to Raleigh, NC to visit with my dad's side of the family (The Franks').  I'm not sure if it was traffic or rain or both, but the drive took forever.  I mean, it's normally not a walk in the park just because it's such a long distance, but this time it took us almost 7 hours.  & Anthony was really tired from having to get up so ridiculously early for work, so I ended up driving almost halfway there...did I mention that I'm mildly afraid of expressway driving?  (See picture above of him in my pink blankie sleeping in the passanger seat.)  By the time we got there, everyone has finished dinner (we told them to go ahead) & I could tell my Nana was less than pleased that we were so late.  Never a dull moment.  In my defense, nothing could really have been done to help it.  Anyway, we spent Thursday & Friday night up there with the family & left early Saturday afternoon.  The time inbetween was spent playing Phase10, Dominoes, & MarioKart & watching Gold Rush, another new show that Anthony has loved & gotten me to like (along with anything NFL, Lizard Lick Towing, Swamp People, etc.).  He's pretty happy about getting more control of the TV :)  It was really nice to be able to go up there & spend some time with my family.  I normally only get to go once a year at Christmas, but this year I also went up right after we got engaged in May.  It is truly one of my favorite places in the world to be.  I know things are going to change a lot after Anthony & I get married (& in some ways they already have), but I think Raleigh with my aunt, uncle & cousins will always feel like home. 

Another highlight of the trip was most definitely when my Pop Pop gave Anthony the potato howitzer.  (Basically 3 or 4 feet of industrial-strength PVC pipe...you shove a potato down the top with a broom stick, spray aerosol hairspray into the bottom for 8-Mississippi, close it up, light it & BOOM.  Potato going 500 yards at 300 MPH.  Not exactly something you can take to the park...more like my grandparents' 50-acre pasture land!  This thing gets talked about at literally every family function & is like the men of the family's burried treasure.  There are only about a million stories about it & I honestly never even knew that he still had it.  He pulled Anthony down to the basement for a "talk" which quite worried me at the time, but the next day he summoned him to again sneak down to his workshop (without my half-brother seeing, is the most important part, because he would've gone nuts) & run the howitzer out to my car.  It was a proud moment for me, like Anthony really is such a part of the family already :)  Not to mention Dad came through on his promise to get Anthony his own stocking. 

As you can see, it has replaced mine in the middle & I am now on the left end.  Rude!  Just kidding...kind of.

CHRISTMAS #3

When we got back from North Carolina on Saturday, we were an hour earlier than expected (this time the trip was 5 hours & 45 minutes).  Mom yelled for us, sepecifically Anthony, to stay in the kitchen because she was working on something in the living room.  She got him a stocking too, & she was ironing his name onto it :)  When she was giving us our presents, she also gave us an etched-glass ornament (below) & ordered a Christmas tree for us the day after.  It was 50% off & counted as part of our gifts this year! 

I guess this wasn't really a "Christmas" dinner because it was a grilled steak & we opened Anthony's presents from my mom the next day, but it was the one time that we were all sitting down together.

CHRISTMAS #4

Early on Christmas morning, I headed over to Anthony's house to open presents & have breakfast with his parents & Mitchell.  When I got there, all I could see was Anthony frantically trying to pull every single part for his grill-guard out of their boxes.  In the picture you can see the book alllllll about Tim Tebow my dad got me for Christmas.  I'm already finished with it :)

Yep, that's me hugging the cover.  Haha.  Anyway, so excited about what I got from Anthony's parents!  The stuff that relates to this blog: really super soft, nice Ralph Lauren blanket that I can't wait to put on the couch in our future home, this really awesome set of oversized keys, a "C" ornament for our tree next year, & my very own set of "Santa" ornaments that Anthony's mom makes out of dried okra!  Anthony & I also exchanged our presents at his parents' house...a pretty ring for me & a bunch of clothes for him :)

CHRISTMAS #5

After we left breakfast at Anthony's house, I went back home to get ready to go to my mom's side of the family (The Garners).  Anthony joined me shortly, & we ate a ton even though we were still stuffed from breakfast.  Unfortunately, we had to pretty much rush though eating & opening presents because we had to be at our last Christmas at around 2. 

CHRISTMAS #6

We got to Anthony's mom's side of the family (The Smiths) a little late, but that's okay because we weren't having a full meal (thank goodness!).  We sat & munched on some snacky foods (yeah, we were stuffed by the end of the night), especially the buffalo chicken dip.  So good.  At this point, I was feeling really terrible for Mitchell because he got his wisdom teeth taken out on Wednesday & couldn't eat much of anything. 

At least not much of the yummy stuff.  Not to mention the fact that Anthony hit him in the cheek with a phone...he forgot about the fact that it would hurt WAY worse than usual.

As you can see, the sections on each Christmas have gotten shorter & shorter...because at this point we were totally Christmas-ed out!  Lets move on to the couple of days after :) 

We hit up a sales at American Eagle & New York & Company on Monday to use our gift cards for really good deals on clothes.  I even got a few dresses that I can potentially wear to bridal showers!  Yay!  Anthony got some much-needed jeans & shirts.  I waited until Wednesday when he was at work to go shopping for Christmas decorations!  They were all 66% off at Hobby Lobby.  Needless to say, Mandie & I spent almost 3 hours in there yesterday.  Quote of the day from Mandie: "I'm going to buy you the biggest Mason Jar ever for your wedding present.  You'll be able to take a bath in it!"  I spent probably a little bit too much money, but got way better deals than I would be getting next fall while shopping for our tree.  Plus, I foresee not having as much cash to blow on decorations next year, seeing as we'll have to do grown-up things like pay bills. 

All of my purchases from HobLob.  I plan on painting the C's & making ornaments out of them :) (They were 30% off as well.)

I found these glasses when I went to Kroger for groceries (which I hate. Along with pushing a real cart & going through an actual check-out line).  With my Kroger card (another grown up thing that I've done), they were $1 apiece, so I bought a set of 8.  Looks like we've got our drinking glasses for when we get a house!

Ornaments that I have made using clear bulbs & filling them with feathers or sequins :)

Christmas plates & mugs that my dad gave us when he moved :)

A Christmas candle-holder my Grannie gave me & perhaps the most precious ornament ever that Clint & Mandie gave us a short time after Anthony proposed :)

Some ornaments that I've had for a small tree for a while & a Noah's Ark-themed christmas tree statue.

I also haven't posted about my recent inspirations lately, so here's a couple more pictures before I end this ridiculously long post!!!

Turquoise mirror that was on clearance at HobLob.  I bought it figuring I could get our photographer to take some cool getting ready pictures??

Vintage aqua car that I saw at The Avenue :)  Now if only it were an antique truck!!

If you read this whole thing all the way through, thank you!  You probably deserve a medal or something ;)

Flower Fix

...& by "fix", I mean predicament, not solution.

I have a lot of other Christmas-related things to write about later, but I figured that the florist appointments deserved a post of their own, since they were so eventful.  First, I have to come clean about my florist appointment with Beyond Details.  I really only scheduled it out of obligation since that company is already doing out catering, & I figured they might have an edge since they own the venue & will have all day to set up as opposed to only a couple of hours.  However, I was less than impressed when we got to their office.  From what I have already seen so far, they are a lot more modern than my tastes, & I didn't feel quite as though my voice was being heard during the appointment.  Maybe I should start from the beginning:

When we arrived, we were greeted by Jakob, who I have no qualms with on a personal level.  That day, he was sick, so maybe that influenced the way the appointment went?  We sat down & started talking about ideas for the flowers.  (I'm not going to discuss the specifics on what we want to have at our wedding on here because I want our guests to have some level of surprise left; rather, I'll just talk about the way we went about deciding.)  A few of the things he said, I liked.  Some, not so much.  When I didn't like the ideas, he kind of...got offended almost but still leaned in the direction of the ideas he talked about.  Sometimes, when he wanted to show us a picture, we had to walk back into his office, sit at the computer, when come back to the meeting room to talk about it.  I wouldn't have had a problem with this if we had looked at a bunch of pictures at one time, but we ended up having to go back and forth several times.  One thing that Jakob suggested that I did agree with was not having a flower girl or ring bearer.  We don't even really have a girl we're close with who would be old enough (the suggestion is 4-8, but you're encouraged to go closer to the 8-end for behavior reasons) & the flower girl seems more important than the ring-bearer. It seems weird to me that people who are not inviting children to their wedding (due to limited seating & budget, not to mention that we want the adults to have fun & enjoy our day with us, instead of having a lot of "distractions" around) would feature kids as two central aspects of it.  Instead, I think I'll opt for petals gracefully placed down the isle by a florist...& the ring-bearer never actually carries the rings anyway :)

I can't quite put my finger on what bothered me most about the appointment, but I think one thing might sum it up perfectly.  He basically said that he would take what I wanted into consideration when doing the styling, but would also be making sure that it looked the way he wanted it to.  Now, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that the bride & the people paying are the only people who it should "look the way they want it to."  Am I right?  That would have been enough to leave me dissatisfied, but then Jakob crunched some numbers to see what all of this was going to cost (I had told him the budget up front).  He  had almost doubled the budget.  Then, when he realized this would be too much, instead of offering ways to fix that, he casually did a few things & brought it down to about 1.67% of the budget.  Still too high, especially given the fact that I didn't feel like I was getting what I wanted.

The next day, I received an email from Jakob with an estimate and an offer.  Basically, he was offering to do the entire thing for 1.33% of the budget, but I had to accept by the end of the day.  He is used to me making quick decisions, because I decided to reserve & deposit on the venue in a day (because it was basically at a 30% discount for that day only).  Here, he was doing the same thing, but this time I felt backed into a corner.  I wasn't comfortable with some of the things that he had said & felt like I wasn't going to have control over how the wedding looked & my voice wouldn't be heard, which isn't okay, especially when you have to pay that much money for something. 

Since I  had to make a decision about the offer by the end of the day or it would expire, I decided to call Jeff at The Garden Gate to see if I could move our January 3rd appointment to that day, with just a couple hours of notice.  He readily agreed, so that afternoon I headed over to Monroe for an estimate with him.

Jeff had so many great ideas, & I felt like my voice was heard loud & clear with him.  He would take what I said & give me several different options that would fit when I wanted.  He also got me to open up to a few other things that I had been hesitant about before, but loved after we discussed them.  It was a great meeting, & I couldn't have been more pleased about feeling so reassured about a florist.  When we had finished talking ideas, Jeff crunched the numbers too.  Again, they were about double the budget.  This time, though, he sat with me (instead of disappearing into a back room) figuring out things that we could cut out.  Within about 10 minutes, we had reduced the cost down to what Beyond Details was going to charge me & I feel like we didn't have to sacrifice any quality at all for the reductions in price.  He was more than willing to tell me where we could cut corners, & where I could make the things that we would be using, to save money; Jakob had not been quite as "for" this idea.  Jeff was also enthusiastic about using the glass pieces that I have been collecting as part of the wedding, another thing that did not seem to sit well with Beyond Details.  Overall, I felt like Jeff had a better idea of what I wanted & was able to translate that vision into real, tangible suggestions & he was much more professional & helpful (our impromptu appointment took well over an hour, which he did not seem to mind at all). 

I haven't confirmed to Jeff that I will be using TGG because I haven't told Jakob that I won't be using BD.  I'm just not good at "pleasant" confrontation on a personal or professional level.  I also don't want to hurt Jakob's feelings because he will still be there for our rehearsal dinner & wedding, making sure everything goes smoothly at the venue.  At least when I do get the courage to turn him down, I'll be able to do it over email :) haha!  More to come about Christmas later.  It deserves a post all its own as well!

Over Halfway There

MANDIE SLEDGE PHOTOGRAPHY

The picture above was taken at the end of that Christmas card photo-shoot that I helped Mandie with a few weeks ago.  We decided to have a little fun at the end with the chalkboard :) I totally love it, but now I'm wishing that I had spent a little more time getting ready that morning!

Speaking of becoming Mrs. Camp, we are officially more than halfway through our engagement.  About a week ago marked the end of the first half of the planning period & I feel like things are going to be getting even busier from here on out.  Today, my mom & I have a meeting with Beyond Details at 4 pm to get a quote for flowers for the wedding; the terms of our contract with The Cotton Warehouse stipulte that we have to use BD for our caterer, but not necessarily our florist.  I still want to check them out, though, because I really like Jakob & he's creative like me.  I also have an appointment for a quote with The Garden Gate Florist in Monroe on January 3rd to get some comparison.  Anthony's cousin-in-law (is that even a word??) Anne Marie suggested them to me, as they did her & Michael's wedding & she used to work there.  I have a feeling that we'll definitely be using one of these two companies...it just depends on who offers me the better price & can see what I want for the wedding.

I have also been in touch with a potential DJ, Lou, of Spectrum Entertainment Events about doing the sound & lighting for our ceremony & reception.  They are also the preferred vendor of TCW, so more than likely we will wind up hiring them.  From the contact that I've  had with these people so far, they're extremely professional & will bend over backward to help you & give you what you want for your event, so I'm very encouraged by that!

As far as some other things with the wedding go, I was pleasantly surprised by an email that I received from BD last week.  The way the payment plan is set up for both the venue and catering contracts, you pay 1/3 of the total payment up front, 1/3 60 days before your event, & 1/3 30 days before your event.  However, this email was a little "Christmas bonus," offering that if you go ahead & pay your second payment now, you get 25% off of that price.  I assumed that this would only be good for one or the other (& it was only good for the first 10 customers who replied), so I had planned on using it for catering (because that is significantly more expensive than the venue, especially since we had already gotten the site on a 30-ish% discount).  However, Krystal from BD let me know that I could use the discount for both!  This is seriously great news & will end up saving us several hundred dollars! 

More holiday cheer: last week I was in American Eagle shopping for Anthony's birthday presents.  He will never tell me anything that he wants (& he's impossibly picky), so this year I've kind of just had to fall back on clothes & shoes.  Anyway, when the cashier asked me who I was buying for, I told him my fiance.  He was so super nice & asked me what my favorite part about being engaged was.  Of course, I told him everyone wanting to see my ring :)  Anthony did such a wonderful job, so I love showing it & him off.  He was genuinely interested in the wedding & gave me some great advice on it being just our day & not trying to worry about pleasing anyone else.  When we were discussing how much planning, effort & money goes into a wedding, he suggested that we just have a tiny wedding & spend the money on our honeymoon! Ha!  On the other hand, when we got to talking about my least favorite part, I said people asking how wedding planning is going.  It's such an awkward question & I never ever know what to say.  Usually it's either the words "good" or "busy."  There is hardly ever a time where I've recently done something major (like buying the dress) worth talking about & it's just a really hard question to answer easily.

I think if we were talking about my least favorite part again today, I would completely change my answer to people talking about us having kids (or giving unwanted opinions in general).  It's pretty common knowledge that I don't want kids for a while.  We are really young & I don't want to start a family until we are both mentally, emotionally & most importantly financially ready.  & that won't be for a loooooooooong time.  Plus, I want to focus on being a wife & getting good at that before I even think about becoming a mother.  I want to do something with my education first, too.  Anne Marie warned me about this part, but somehow I doubted that it would happen because most people are shocked that we are even getting married at our age.  Without a doubt, we were at Anthony's cousin's son's (that's a lot of 's's) 1st birthday party on Saturday & the comments started rolling in.  It always amazes me how bold people are, especially those who just met me or when it comes to criticizing our age or now bringing up when they think I ought to procreate.  Kind of like my Grannie's friend telling me that hosting a party for her was "wonderful practice for my new role."  For anyone reading this, probably not the best idea to butt in on either of those subjects! ;)

MANDIE SLEDGE PHOTOGRAPHY

Oh. My. MASON JARS!

If you read this blog regularly, or probably even looked at one post, you know all about my love affair with Mason jars.  Big ones, small ones, open ones, ones with lids, Ball, Kerr, tinted, clear...you name it, I love it!  Well this is a tale all about my week in Heaven with jars.  Yep, you heard me. 

H-E-A-V-E-N. 

The first scene begins on Thursday, when I went to Hobby Lobby (sick, without a lick of make-up on, & wet hair) for a few canvases.  Imagine my surprise when I ran into Mandie & Kim in the parking lot.  I really hadn't planned on staying that long, but I got to wandering around with them when I noticed the "50% off Glassware" sign.  Normally I wouldn't think anything of this, because I have already gotten pretty much all the decorative glass they have that I want/can use.  Imagine my surprise when I saw that same sign right in the middle of a section of Mason jars!  Could it be true?  Mason jars FIFTY percent off?!  Well, believe it my friends because every single jar was half off.  I have been toying with the idea of giving them as favors to our guests, so I basically cleaned Hobby Lobby out.  I got every single small jar they had (19, to be exact...gotta get that number up to 150 by the time August 4th rolls around & I will be displaying/giving them out of this amazing red chest) and 10 of the bigger ones to use as aisle runners. 

All that and more for less than $20!!!  And I thought that was a ridiculous deal.  Just wait, because.........

What you see above is 54 glorious Mason jars that I found at an estate sale place.  They are moving locations & don't want to have to take anything with them to the new facility, so everything is dirt cheap.  When my grandmother called to tell me about them, she thought one basket was $2.  I walked up front to ask the manager...$0.20 apiece!  Needless to say, I scoured that place for about an hour getting every single jar I could find.  I expected it to come out to $11 or so, but when she rang me up she informed me that it was $7.  SEVEN DOLLARS.  FOR FIFTY-FOUR MASON JARS!!!!!  Now, I know I'll never use all of these in the wedding even if they are on every table and lining every aisle.  I know!  So I sorted through them and kept the Ball jars & was SO excited to give the Kerrs to my sweet friend Mandie!  I just love having someone to share my insane love of antique glass jars with :)

I'm so excited about all of the jars that I've gotten over the last week that I even made Mitchell listen to the WHOLE story behind them on the way home from the Dome.  I think he secretly liked it :) if not he was trapped inside Anthony's truck so oh well!  There's more "real" wedding stuff to update with later, but before I go, two quick things.

 

1.  Fabulous red & teal sequined inspiration fabric that I saw at HobLob & couldn't resist capturing.

2.  Okay, I was having this debate with Anthony.  TELL me he does not look like Tim Tebow.  That's right, you can't.  Because he SO does.  Hahaha :) next time you see him, just call him Tim!  It will be great.

More about serious wedding things later, friends!

8 Months To Go

Some people say time flies when you're having fun...I say time flies when you're too busy to breathe!  Lately we have been going going going non-stop & sometimes it seems like the stress is never-ending.  Finals are coming up this week for both of us & work always seems to be looming also.  Then, add on our Wednesday night commitments to serve at church as well as Christmastime coming up & we've got a pretty packed schedule.  One thing's for sure, that leaves very little time for wedding planning!  Buuuut, somehow we always seem to make time to see friends, paint (me) & watch football (Anthony...& sometimes me).  We've got to be able to have something that keeps us sane, right?  Something I was really blessed by this weekend was spending so much time with Mandie (M. Sledge) who has taken to calling me S. Camp...which I am more than fine with!  (A friend once gave me the advice to practice using & signing my new last name in advance, so I'm definitely happy about my new nickname.)  Anyway, I'm was so excited to be able to ask Mandie to "coordinate" our wedding the day of (make sure everything runs smoothly & on schedule...AKA according to the plan).  Running & putting together events of any kind is something she is so gifted at & I know that our wedding is going to be better because of her!

On another happy note, the monthly emails that I get from The Knot came today...on the to-do list for this month is registering for gifts...eeeeekkkkkkk!  That has been something that I have so looked forward to doing & I think doing it during the holiday season will just make it that much more special & fun!  If anyone has thoughts on where to register & where not to register, I am totally open to suggestions.  The only thing I really want from our registries is to have at least two stores.  One for me & one for him...that way he can get some man-things like tools.  So far I'm thinking Bed Bath & Beyond along with a Lowe's or Home Depot-type store.  I told my Grannie that I was planning on registering for stuff that we knew people probably wouldn't get us anyway so we could get the 10% discount when we complete our registry :) so sneaky!

I feel like I've fallen behind on all of the cool things that I've gotten to help decorate our wedding & all of the inspirations I've seen around lately.  So let's catch up really fast:

It's not really for the wedding, but I found this sugar-shaker at an antique store & just had to get it for Anthony.  He has always wanted one like the ones they have at Waffle House & this one was even the right color :) I have no doubt that it will be used every day for coffee in our house.

Handled Mason Jar I found in our kitchen cabinets.  Mom told me I could have it :)

50% off glassware at Hobby Lobby (who should also have a wedding registry...just saying!)

Teal candle...it got kinda melted but it's still pretty!

Okay, didn't buy this recently, but I think some of my mom's jewelry came in it once.  Luckily for me, I'm a complete pack-rat, so I found it looking for a gift bag the other day.  It's the right color scheme, so I'm going to try to keep it to use in some way on our wedding day.  I'm sure I can put something good in it!

Napkins & plates from Party City when we were picking up things for Carson's birthday...too stinkin' cute.

$0.99 bandanas at HobLob!  I think I need a few of these...

Holy Mason Jars.  I want them all.  Right now.  As I limped around Hobby Lobby on my poor little knee after Mandie took me to the doctor (I refused to ride in a wheelchair like she wanted me to haha), I had to stop & drool over these jars.  I thought I had died & gone to Heaven when I saw them................but then I saw the price tags.  Does anyone know if they're included in the 50% off glassware sale when that happens?!  I mean really they're not that expensive, but I can't buy 150 of them like I want to for guests to drink out of & take home.  I might just have to re-arrange the budget so that we can though, because I seriously freaking love Mason Jars & we get to keep the leftover favors ;)

P.S. The extra huge ones...$29.99.  Yep, you read that right.