Pink Roses

have a seat...

I had a wingback chair and ottoman upholstered in a black and white houndstooth fabric, as a Christmas gift for my son.  This fabric is the unofficial "pattern" if you will, for the University of Alabama.  Bear Bryant, the famous head coach of the Alabama football team, always wore a houndstooth hat.  Now, houndstooth is everywhere on campus.  I must admit, it is far better than some school colors!  The chair used to be a pink and white check...

now it has a new look...

 

It was tricky, trying to hide this before Christmas, but I did it.  I had a friend stop by on Christmas morning and help me move it next to the tree, so that he would be surprised when he woke up.  I was concerned that he would think it was a dumb gift, but he actually likes it.  He will be graduating from college in May...I can't believe 4 years have passed so quickly!  This chair will (hopefully) always remind him of his fun college days!

Merry Christmas...

with love from my family to yours....

decking the halls...

bowling, burgers and beer...

I promise this is the last wedding detail I will show you, but I thought you might want to see the after party. Yes, after a proper wedding and cocktails and dinner and dancing, we did this...

We rented a private club, and had a ball!  We had baskets of white socks, and she made custom music soundtracks to play on the sound system.  We served gourmet sliders & Vidalia onion rings, there was bowling and pool tables and some serious Guitar Hero on the big screen TV!

The bride wore a second {shorter} dress...

The grown-ups {me} crashed on comfy leather sofas, and the kids kept it going till the wee hours.  Everyone was weary at the brunch the next morning.  I still say it was my best weekend ever...but I'm glad I only have ONE daughter! :) 

the stockings were hung...

This is why things take me forever.  I was hanging the Christmas stockings, when I realized I needed a stocking for my new son-in-law, Paul.  It needed to coordinate with the others, which I had made 2 decades ago out of velvet from a fabric shop in downtown Atlanta.  So {naturally} I drove downtown to the same shop and bought fabric, and came home and sewed.  Then I looked around my house for something "guy-ish" and manly to make the cuff on the top.  You may not be surprised when I say that I don't have a lot of manly stuff around here!  I decided I wanted to make the cuff out of an actual shirt cuff...actually perhaps a French cuff, and then use a wonderful old brass button as a cufflink.  So I'm off to the thrift store to find the right shirt to re-purpose.  After all, he is my one and only brand spanking new son-in-law.  And he totally won't care, but I do.  While I was at it, I sewed a stocking for Katie too.  Wishful thinking!  Then I'm baking cookies, because Christopher is coming home from college tomorrow...always my best gift :)