lace, buttons, and pearls! flowers, feathers, and rope.. OH MY?

So, this is going to be a wedding themed post I suppose. Jacob's whole new schedule working a night-like shift is crazy and it makes me miss him a whole bunch so I like to think of our new life together, haha. I plan on just throwing some random ideas/pictures on here to give an idea of what the theme "really" is. 

What's the theme? If I gave it a name it would include these theme(S) with an "S", yes.

Old western/rustic, antique, vintage, peacock.

I seriously have a billion ideas and most of them DIY. Which means saving money! YAY!

I've planned decorations including things like mason jars, tree branches, lights, wood, buttons, lace, rope, burlap, flowers, pearls, peacock feathers, and much MUCH more!

So here's some pictures! These are strictly ideas and inspiration from etsy.com! Does not mean I am purchasing these items (: Remember, DIY!

those are invitation inspirations (: a dear friend is whipping up some designs for invitations and so far,

SWEET ;)

I like both of these for flower girl baskets (:

idea for ring bearer pillow!

and these are ideas for decorations for centerpieces, etc!

this is a possibility for a hair piece.. with a birdcage veil, of course ;)

and that's enough sneak peaking for one night!
l-o-v-e it.

My name is MATER, like TUH-mater.. without the TUH.

So after months of not getting rest, I finally got the incentive to flip my mattress over since it's been awhile since the last flip. I can't really tell if it's helping me sleep considering I've only slept on it for one night. I've not been able to go to sleep until around 1-2am when I'm just so exhausted I finally knock out. It's not fun. I've had tons of back pain lately. Mostly thanks to a dog at work. Bless her bones, she came in over a month ago and was down in her back end.. hips, legs, feet, everything.. even her tail was lifeless. To be honest, we didn't have alot of hope that she'd ever walk again. BOY, were we wrong! Just this past week, she's been standing on her own putting little amounts of weight on those rear legs. She stretches them and wags her tail. The back pain has to do with my therapy I guess we call it. I started out weeks ago with helping her get up and work her back legs which is really hard on a back. I know they always say "lift with your legs, not back" well in this case it wasn't so. She couldn't help me at all so it was lifting dead weight from the floor up so a back usually got involved. I got a brace this weekend and it has worked wonders. I don't have any pain while working with her anymore. Her improvement has also aided it! As well as many prayers! 

It's not the greatest quality picture but this was the first time I witnessed Sadie, the dog I was talking about, standing all by herself. She can really push my buttons sometimes when she gets tired and doesn't want to try but I was almost like a very proud mama this day!

Ok, God has extremely poured his blessings on New Life, my amazing church. We've been pushing all year to start our new "Family Life Center".. basically like a fellowship hall. We need the space desperately as our current sanctuary holds about 280 people give or take. We have around 250+ members that are regular attending. Yep, we need the space! So we've all been praying and fasting and giving in hopes for this to come to pass. We've joked about the old Pamida/Roses building becoming "ours" for some time now. Well, Roses stepped in and we thought Ok, God, maybe you didn't want us to have that.. you know, back to out original plan that we had made. Then Roses went out of business. We thought, YES, this is it. LOOOOOONG story short. God blessed us and this WAS His plan for us. The building is now ours and we plan to let God do amazing things with it. We are thrilled!

So God has also blessed my "almost" family. Jacob starts at his job full-time next week. I'm really happy because that means we can hopefully start purchasing our new home! I'm also upset just because I won't get to see him except for weekends. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make though because we really need the money to start our life together! It also means I can actually try to seriously plan our BIG DAY and set the date now, lol! Yay! Uhmmmm, we had a fabulous date night tonight. This is one of those rare times we get some time to ourselves. Seriously.... we never have date nights. I think we've had three maybe in the past year or so. Yeah. I just love him to pieces. O'Charley's+Cars 2=Happy us! Now time to get things settled down to rest and get up tomorrow for the Smithville Fiddler's Jamboree!! Yessssss (:

Tootlessssss! (: