A weekend getaway

We decided to get away this weekend (my 26th birthday -eek- is Wednesday), so we headed to Asheville. Rob booked a place to stay, and surprised me. We pulled up to a lot of log cabins, and I got excited. Yup, we stayed in a one room log cabin. It's called Log Cabin Court, and its a group of about 20 log cabins that were built in 1929. I've always been enamored with log cabins (maybe I played with too many Lincoln Logs as a kid?), so it was a neat experience.

We stayed in the "Snuggle Inn"


Rob said we he called to reserve the lady made sure to tell him "Now these aren't luxury accommodations, these are log cabins, built in 1929" when he told her he was from Raleigh.


I loved this old dresser, with the daffodil in the vase.


We also had a chance to go to a bakery (Icing on the Cake) near Asheville and taste cake for the wedding. It was delicious! And she took every little thing that we liked from all the pictures we brought, and incorporated them into our cake. We ended up choosing 3 flavors, because we couldn't make up our minds! So we've officially found our baker!

It rained the whole time we were there so we spent some time relaxing in the cabin and driving around exploring. We found some great local places to eat. My favorite was the Moose Cafe. It was at the Western NC Farmer's Market, so everything was from local farms. We also went to the Tupelo Honey Cafe, and Early Girl Eatery, which I had been wanting to go to ever since I saw it on $40 a day on the Food Network.

We headed back early in the afternoon on Sunday because it started snowing pretty hard (out of nowhere!) and we didn't want to get stuck. It was so nice to just get away for a couple of days though, and we've decided to do it more often. It's back to the real world tomorrow!

Excited again...

The last time I blogged I wrote about how happy I was about receiving our stationary color samples. The colors were really beautiful (and let's get real here - I ordered card stock samples that were metallic, aka glittery - naturally!) so we ordered a sample kit to print on. But....we didn't have a design yet.

I originally didn't care so much about the invitations, but of course I wanted something I liked (when you're paying a lot of money for something - you want to like it!). After searching through designs, and not finding anything that really even caught my eye at all, I decided to turn to Etsy. You can find graphic designers who will sell you a design for you to print however you wish.

I was searching through designs and found one by Ticklemeink (check her out, she's great) that not only fit our aesthetic, but our colors too (which we could have changed if they didn't fit). I worked on the wording and the fonts and the shades of the colors on the invite that I liked best. And they turned out....awesome! I never knew I would be so excited about the invites, but I am.

Birds, trees, hearts, red and blue....two different fonts, ridiculously complicated directions, and a tongue in cheek RSVP card never looked so good jumbled up together!

Now that we have the invites designed....we should probably work on getting those save the dates (I'm sorry but I refuse to use the abbreviation - STD - *shudders*) finished. I'll be doing a post about those soon!