I've been going through a difficult time the past few weeks and it all boils down to one thing: my fiance lives in a different country. It's difficult. Much more difficult than I can explain to anyone. I love him. My heart is unhappy when he's not here. That's about as sappy as I know how to be. But I miss him more than anything. Today this came to my door. 

He said it was just to see me smile. 

It worked. He is amazing.

Inspiration.

I can barely contain my excitement over this particular detail. 

I have my wedding dress!

Unfortunately, I can't share that with you on my blog for two reasons. The first is really I want it to be a special when people see me in it on my wedding day. I want to awe. The second is more important though, Aaron occasionally reads my blog and he can't see it before the wedding! So instead of sharing the dress itself I'm going to share a small detail. This is the purple flower I got in Japan. At the time I just thought it was a beautiful flower. Now it's the accent for the sash on my wedding dress. It's absolutely perfect and the fact that it's from Japan makes me love it even more!  

Today my fabulous friend Jessi & I made Save-the-Date cards for the wedding. The hardest part was deciding exactly what we wanted to do, I had so many fun ideas it was difficult to narrow them down. Once we'd made that decision they were fairly quick and easy. I love doing crafty things, they make me so happy! I have many more do-it-yourself projects planned between now and the wedding. Mostly because projects keep me busy and happy, but more importantly they keep me from dwelling on Aaron being so very far away, at least for a few hours. I've also got a very specific picture in my mind of what I want everything to look like and since it's so hard to find things that are perfect I'd rather just make them myself. So far I have save-the-dates, my veil, our wedding cake, thanks you's and favors, bridesmaid gifts, bridesmaid bouquets, centerpieces, our guest book, my wedding scrapbook, our wedding video, my garter, the men's boutonnieres, place tags and possibly our wedding invitations on my do-it-yourself list. I'm so excited for these projects, I wish I could do them all now but most have to wait till we're closer to the wedding. Not these little beauties though!