12.24.2002

As ready as we can be!





Just hope the weather holds out.  We're supposed to get a whopping snowstorm.... fingers crossed...

12.23.2002

Wedding Ornament

I made an ornament using the rings we wore before we
were married. Our first family ornament!
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12.20.2002

Portraits

Our awesome, talented friend Ben came over and took some wonderful portraits. Neither Ken nor I really enjoy having our picture taken. Ben made it a blast.



11.15.2002

Prep

This week has been a mess of furniture moving, wallpaper removal, plaster repair, priming and painting.  Whew.


Also, the steaks arrived, so we got to screw around with dry ice.  Note: I advise that you do not try to breathe straight carbon dioxide.  It burns.

10.23.2002

Making the dress...

 

  

  


About three months before the wedding, I decided that it would be easier to sew my own dress rather than find a non-wedding-but-still-nice dress that I liked.  It's coming along pretty well, if I may say so myself.  I am kinda at a standstill over the back, though.  I can't quite figure out how I want to finish it.  No butt-bows for me, please.

We built a mannequin with my exact measurements so that I don't have to keep putting on the dress to see the fit.  Making the form involved getting wrapped in a few rolls of duct tape   (wearing smallish clothes, of course) mounting it onto a PVC pipe of the right height and stuffing it with foam to the right proportions.  Did someone just call me crackheaded?  No, crackheaded was answering the door in my little duct tape suit.

9.07.2002

Coolest cake ever

This thing has a functioning volcano thanks to some chipped dry ice and hot water. The whole damn thing is cake!
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6.23.2002

Massachusetts Fun Fly

Served a double purpose:
Ken flew his helicopter and I got to go camping. Sweet.


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4.12.2002

Kaya

In Hopi Indian (Native American) Kaya would mean "your elder sister,who is little".
In Ghana- it means "stay and don't go back".
In Zulu- it means "home".
In Japanese- it means "adds a place of resting".
Another African translation is "diamond in the sky".
In Tibet it means "the enlightened one".
Other Native Americans tribes say it means "wise one".
Kaia is another way of spelling it which also means "Earth".
It was the name of a 6th century Korean kingdom. The name survives in the name of twelve-stringed instrument (kayagum) developed there.
In Japanese, it means summer night or the name of a type of Yew tree.
"Kaya" is also an old Bob Marley song.
"Kaya" means enlightenment in the Rastafari dialect.
In the Hopi language, it means "elder little sister".
In Sanskrit, Kaya is one of the words that refers to a body, or a form.
In Buddhism, it specifically refers to the three bodies in which beings manifest (trikaya). The Dharmakaya is the enlightened manifestation. The Sambogakaya is a step down from that, like an energy body, not quite enlightened, but not as bound as humans. The Nirmanakaya is the manifest physical form.
Here's a link for what it looks like in Chinese:http://www.chinese-tools.com/names/calligraphy/code_2977_kaya.html
In Hawaiian it means "sea".
In Turkish- "a powerful monarch"