gwyneth colleen photography » portsmouth, nh wedding photographer

this past april i traveled down to the baltimore area with some good friends of mine (who’ve made many appearances on this blog) to attend a mutual friend’s wedding.

i didn’t even bring my camera, but i did email their photographer to ask for a couple of the funny dancing shots…my date was TOTALLY cute

becky and i are totally amused that we unwittingly made the same face/did the same thing…(also, yes, she DID just have that 5 month old baby in the picture.  and yes.  i DO sometimes hate her.  and yes, it does pain me to put a picture of myself next to her.  there…are you happy you dragged all that out of me?  i need a counseling session now.)

i should be packing. i am moving in fewer than 7 days…but instead i am browsing etsy shops. and thinking about how i will decorate the home i have not yet secured.

yesterday i bought this bed:

a few months back i made myself a duvet cover and pillow shams from this fabric:

(the store i bought it from doesnt seem to sell it anymore.  jerks.)
(but if you’re into that sort of thing…www.fabrictales.com has super cool japanese import fabrics.)

and i think i might get this cool thing to go behind my bed…in black and red, of course.  (my wardrobe is becoming increasingly dual-chromatic.  am i getting boring?  what would clinton and stacy say to me?)

i think it’s gonna look pretty freakin’ sweet!

was born on monday.  my sister, bekah (who shall heretofore be referred to as “bek-the-sister”), gave birth to william robert sometime in the evening.

(brand new babies are SO attractive.)

the happy family…well, mom and dad are fairly content…the pipsqueak doesn’t look so happy.

my brother-in-law is in the air force, and they were stationed in mississippi in march.  i knew they were planning to name the baby william robert (they decided this long before she was pregnant) after both of their grandfathers, so i joked that they were moving down south and naming their kid billy-bob.

they are going to call him “liam”…i think that’s a really cute nickname for william!

kid’s got attitude!

bek says he’s going to be the next lead singer for kiss…my nephew the rockstar.

it’s so weird to me that my little sister is a MOM!  (and that makes me an AUNT.)
i’m sure it’ll all become more real when i finally get to meet him in october.  stay tuned for auntie gwyn’s photos of bebe liam.

remember claire and bobby?  they of the awesomeness…the 29 year old male flowergirl, the princess bride ceremony, the combined last names, (did i mention the salad that was not so much salad as…a plate of meatballs?)  oh, and the puppets.  mustn’t forget the puppets.

anyway, they are currently, this very minute, featured on offbeat bride.  which means, by extension, so am i!  it was pretty much the best way to start my morning (side note:  being self employed means that if i want to go to bed at 3 and get up at 10, i totally can.  and i do.) to fire up ye olde mac and see the most fun wedding ever getting its due accolades.  (oh, and the interest from the offbeat brides whose quirkiness i truly embrace…yeah, that doesn’t hurt either.)

so.  yay for claire and bobby (whom i love so very much), and welcome, all those who have clicked their way here from OBB.  (good thing she didn’t call it off-the-beaten-track bride, because then it would be obtb, and if someone forgot that first b, it would just be confusing.  like…i thought i was coming here to bet on grey gander to show?  ok.  rambling now.  but since i’m already rambling, little known gwyn fact:  i worked as a mutuel clerk (read:  bet taker) at the saratoga racetrack for a couple summers in college.  totally fun.)