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FS: Misc. Bali and Sterling (and catchup letter)

I have major apologies for not being on here, and it ain't gonna get better any sooner.

But I have my wedding 3 weeks from TODAY! (YIKES)...and I am *so* far behind...still working on the caterer, need to arrange so many things, I still don't have a bouquet (and am not sure I will have one...). Quick rundown will be at the end of this.

Anyway, I am selling some of my bali to pay for some things of this wedding. So if you see something, I really would appreciate it! You can email me at mary at meijhanadesigns dot com, if you see something you like. Shipping will probably be a buck or two, dependant on weight. I can take paypal, but would prefer cash transfers...that way, I can go ahead and use the whole amount towards some of the other things I need (i.e. more wits, since I seem to be losing mine every day!).

I have the beads under

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and look for mybalipics as the user name). I also have some sterling leverback earwires, "plain". The picture can be seen here, item #ss902.
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They are $4.50 in a pack, 10 packs are available. I also have a spool of sterling silver cable chain, 10 feet worth. It's 1.00mm. It's on this page:
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item ss/130/100f ...$4.25/foot (i would prefer to sell all 10 feet, cuz it's sealed in a bag). I have the following 5.5mm letters available for 60 cents each. a - 32 b - 8 c - 18 d - 18 e - 18 f - 9 g - 8 h - 20 i - 20 j - 18 k - 18 l - 10 m - 10 n - 18 o - 18 p - 9 q - 6 r - 10 s - 18 t - 18 u - 18 v - 4 w - 8 x - 5 y - 19 z - 5

First email that I get for each item, i will take. I also have some little rope wire toggles, I can't find a pic of them, and I can't get my scanner to work. They are cute, coils with little s's on them. Sorry, I couldn't find my ruler for some reason (I just cleaned yesterday, that's the reason!). They are $1.75 each. 37 available

My gram scale broke on me, so the weights that are given in the pictures on picturetrail are what was posted when I bought them. they are guesstimates, and can vary.

Anyway, it's 2:47 am, and I have a demo for the card game that I run at noon, so I want to give ya'll the rundown on what's going on:

Sunday, the 24th of October, Ken and I will be getting married. We are expecting approximately 100 people, and I am getting stage fright already. I have a friend flying in from Indianapolis who will be taking pics (they want around $1200 to do the pics out here...so I don't get my pro pics done, wah!). One of the guys (who seems to be my chauffeur lately) will be doing the videography.

Now, the funny thing is, the person who will be doing our wedding. I have a very good friend, the creator of the Cyberpunk Collectible Card Game. He was helping me through one of my panic attacks about this wedding, helping me to organize my thoughts. We were in IM's, and I was looking for clergy, since Ken is pagan. I had been trying to get him to come out, to promote his game, and just be a guest, but since the game is fledgling (almost a year old), he couldn't afford to come. I found a mention of the Universal Life Church, and went to visit the site, where I found out anyone can become ordained in three minutes. I sent him the link, and in 5 minutes, he became ordained. So now, we are paying his way out, for the fee of what we would pay anyone else. (he's also giving the girl who is doing the photography a set of Cyberpunk cards for doing the photography, and the film...we have to provide the plane...but that's kewl...she's a friend). So we jokingingly kid around about we are going to be the first people married in the church of Cyberpunk...

I actually have decent pics of me up on the web. Well...me in t-shirt and jeans, and the pictures aren't flattering, but they are me.

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third picture down, I am *way* back in the lefthand corner, and Ken is the second from the bottom on the left (blonde hair). 4th pic, he's the one on the left.
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I am on the right in the 1st pic, with my hair covering...the second one, I am at the top of the table, 4th pic, I am Miss BuckTeeth USA. The person who will do our wedding is on this page:
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top pic, he's the one on the left. I still have some invitations to send out, I still have to arrange a ton of stuff...(EEP!)...and I am constantly overworried about this. But in 3 weeks, and one day, this will all be over. I will say goodbye to my friends in 3 weeks, 1 day, and 3 hours, and then have the inlaws here for a week. Then Ken goes back to work, and everythign settles down to normal. Whatever that is.

We are getting married in Fairfield, in a community center. We have it from

3-9. We set the ceremony at 5. Cuttin it short, I know...but we really couldn't afford longer. So I am going to heavily rely on friends to help out with the decorating (trying to keep it simple, especially since I am not sure *what* i can do, if anything, from the budget...bleh)., and the food/drink service.

I still gotta make up the wedding vows...the ceremony is going to take place on the stage. So we gotta figure out who goes first/etc.

OH, my...too much.

Well, I am going to toddle off to bed...I have that demo in the morning, then MORE looking around and shopping for the wedding...ARGH!

I hope everyone is okay...

Mary

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meijhana
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When Pete and I got married, my Depression was hampering me. My mental energy was very limited, though I was not depressed/melancholy. And as the date approached and things accelerated, that mental energy got more and more compromised. Even without Depression this happens.

Here's my advice. As you make your preparations, look at each job and decide whether it's really necessary. And eliminate every job you possibly can. People will be there to help you celebrate, not to criticize you. Eg, I really didn't like how my wedding dress looked, but it was OK and I didn't want to spend more time on it. Invitations should be handwritten, but it's more important that they get off as soon as possible, so stick computer printed labels on them. And a good night's sleep is more important than last minute details. A wedding is about the couples happiness, not about what the guests think of the show.

And simplify what's going on in your life. Don't try to add silver sales to what's going on. Frankly, I would be afraid my order wouldn't be filled until after your wedding because of all you have going on.

My experience in life is that the busier you get, the more cash you require. Often you take so much time making a decision there's no time to implement it without paying someone else to do it, and then because you're worn out, you have to eat out instead of eating less expensively at home.

The wedding for my niece probably cost $100,000. And that's fine if you're rich and have that kind of money lying around. But that doesn't apply to most of us. If the guests want a big show, let them pay for it. But even better, allow your friends to participate. The last three weddings I went to were pot luck, eg.

Don't put everything on yourself.

Tina

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Reply to
Christina Peterson

None of the pics show up for me... :-(

Reply to
Barbara Forbes-Lyons

does anyone else have this problem?

It's two different sites, Picture Trail and the fsl site...

lmk, please!

and barbara, if there's anything you want me to email you, please lmk, and I can email the pics to you...can you see the wording?

mary

Reply to
meijhana

Thank you, Christina, for the words...It's getting pulled together...and this is "happy" stress, although I am still a nervous bride (I have only been to one wedding, and that was 2 days after I graduated in 1985, i don't remember anything about it).

He wanted this for his family, and I want this for him. He is a wonderful man.

and the person that is marrying us, he *really* helped out, because he helped me organize what needed to be done, how to do them (and pulled together some things that I wouldn't have been able to do, like a person do do the cooking, instead of my just putting cold sandwich meat on the buffet.

And of course, some of it was just my being behind.

But by this time, 21 days from now, I will be married to my Mr. Right! ;-)

again, thanks! Mary

Reply to
meijhana

I'm so glad you understood I was worried, not trying to criticize.

Yup, stress is stress, even happy stress. You will be so happy to have the wedding behind you! As well as to be married. Being married to Pete has been such a blessing! I wish you the same.

My son was married a year and a half before I remarried, while he was in Ukraine with the Peace Corp. For the two weeks I was there, the week before the wedding and the week after, there were social obligations every night. Russian vodka at lunch with the teachers at his school. Parties for decorating the reception facilities. They probably averaged 5 hours a sleep a or less. I asked the Ukrainians if this was a way to be sure the man was healthy and vigorous, and "vigorous".

Be sure to take physical care of yourself!

Tina

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Reply to
Christina Peterson

Sorry, Mary - I meant the site with your pictures on them (the cyberpunk site). No pics show up at all for me. :-(

I avoided temptation and didn't even LOOK at the Bali, lol. As much as I'd like to help you out with wedding bills, I'm in over my head right now myself.

Hugs - thinking of you and your special day. If there's anything I can do, let me know. Be glad to offer support and assistance as I've BTDT.

Barb

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

I had a HUGE, very expensive wedding, did all the footwork myself, and thoroughly enjoyed the whole process!...

I kept telling each and every person who had even a HINT of contention..."I am the Serene Bride, you can't shake me!"..ROFL...

and when that big day rolled around, I WAS the Serene Bride, enjoyed the whole day, and so did everyone else! The important thing (the ONLY thing I didn't allow to have glitches if they did occur) was having the right man! :)

Enjoy, and then enjoy some more.

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

I couldn't figure that out either. The only pic I could find there was clearly not you :)

marisa2

Barbara Forbes-Ly> Sorry, Mary - I meant the site with your pictures on them (the cyberpunk

Reply to
Marisa2

try this link. The pages I was referring to was the conquest pages (page 1 and 2), and Peter's page (the person who will be marrying us) is on the gencon indy page 3.

I don't know what happened??? Ya'll aren't on Mac's, are you?

mary

Reply to
meijhana

This is *so* weird...my original post of this didn't show up on Google groups. but Christina's reply to this did. *SO* totally weird!

mary

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> They are $4.50 in a pack, 10 packs are available. > > I also have a spool of sterling silver cable chain, 10 feet worth. It's > 1.00mm. It's on this page:
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Reply to
meijhana

Well, the pics show up in Internet Explorer, but not Netscape or Mozilla or Firefox. I hate using IE.

Good to see you and Ken, tho'.

Reply to
Barbara Forbes-Lyons

Thanks for that feedback! I will have to go check source code for that. I know a friend has Mac, and said he had trouble, also.

Mary

Reply to
meijhana

I freaked out both times. I've never had a church wedding although in hindsight I wished I had. Maybe in 10 years or so when DH and I have money again.

Reply to
starlia

Same here! I am honestly considering this for our 20th wedding anniversary which is coming up in just a few months.

Carol in SLC Some of my stuff:

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Carol in SLC

I wanted a Las Vegas wedding on April Fools day. We only got as far as Lake Havasu and March 24th, LOL. I was hoping that for our 20 year anniversary we could make it to Vegas. We have 9 1/2 years to save but now you guys got me hooked on beads...it may be a lost cause, LOL!

.Stephanie.

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Stephanie

I finally had the wedding of my dreams the third go around. The first time was fancy and I wore a cream-colored lace-dripping confection and a veil; we had it in a grand old house here in Portland that rents out for weddings and such. We had champagne and hors d'ouvres, and a piano player.

The second time was fancy and I wore a purple evening gown and flowers in my hair, and we had it in the garden gazebo of a hotel out in the West Hills. We had live music and dancing and dinner.

The third time, I wore a polyester maternity dress, and we had it at the rhododendrom garden without telling anyone we were going to. There were twelve of us, and we had fun.

After the second divorce, I said I wouldn't get married again until I found a man who agreed to the following wedding: He in a Speedo, me in a Muu-muu, in the middle of the woods; our minister says "You wanna?", groom replies "Yup". Minister says to me, "You wanna?", I reply, "Yup". Minister hands us $200 and says "GO!", and we race off though the woods to the car, get in, and speed off on our honeymoon.

Moxley agreed to it.

-Kalera

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Kalera Stratton

Smart man!!

Carol in SLC Some of my stuff:

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Carol in SLC

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Oh Kalera! I love you!

I had the wedding of my dreams the 3rd time too. I got to wear a HAT! It was tiny (the judge, 2 people [as required by law], and me & Kevin). I was totally absorbed by the groom's eyes, and didn't look away from him. It was a hypnotic, almost-hallucinatory few minutes. It was a dream. It was a dream come true. I was (and still am) so much in love with him.

We thought, when we first met online and Knew, that it was beyond our grasp to even MEET (IRL). And there we were, getting married. I thought I would simply die! It was so gorgeous. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Dr. Sooz

Ken is still lobbying for the "short, short" version...and I think Peter is willing to oblige him.

*I* just won't let them!!!

mary

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meijhana

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