# 31: FOUR THINGS

The 31st May-Photo-A-Day-in-June-the-12th-to-be-exact: "FOUR THINGS"

Thing #1 (Most Favourite Thing):

Last week we reached the 100 Day mark to becoming Mrs Orpen! Officially in the double digits with 94 days to go!

iphone App (AppyCouple): Countdown Timer 

iphone App (WedHappy): Task List & Countdown

Thing #2:

I cannot live with out my to-do lists (plural) and calendar reminders as I have the memory span of a gold fish! Right now I have 3 notebooks assigned to certain aspects in my life: Day Job, Wedding and Freelance.  

Due to sleepless nights I have now combined every wedding note and task scribbled in each of these books into one gigantic and detailed spreadsheet. Each task is noted, then briefly described, given a task status, a due date and then highlighted in pink if it is a DIY task and if it is completed.

Thing #3:

I have always wanted a cow-shaped milk jug, with the cows nose/mouth as the pouring spout. I haven't been able to find one...

 Until now at the Entrepo in Sandton City! But this cute little jug was not declared in the bride-to-be budget for the month so I hope he will hold out until July..   

Thing #4:

It was Te's birthday yesterday and for the first time we got to celebrate it together in the same province, city, suburb, street and home which was a real treat as I LOVE BIRTHDAYS! It happens to be my most favourite kind of day. 

We had decided that we weren't going to gift presents this year as our wedding day will be the gigantic belated present. So I found the most awesome card for Te instead. Normally the good part of the card is inside but this was not the case - the good part could be found on the back of the card... as it is because of the birthday boy that I get to experience the "love like they do in power ballads, you know like on a cliff with the wind in your hair and your eyes shut, knowning you'll never love another like this...". 

I laughed so much as I recreated the picture in my mind and the reaction one would have to the "watch out" part.

I couldn't help not gift the handsome something on his special day but I knew we made a promise of no birthday presents - instead I "treated our house" to these floating glass and black frames from Country Road and printed two of our favourite photo's from the Orpen Film Making Co. website shoot.

Lad & Lass Wedding Photography: Double Exposure layered faces || Symmetrical Bridge.

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #94 days 

# 18: WANT

The 18th May-Photo-A-Day: "WANT"

I find this a pretty tough photo to capture and post to write about... You see, as cheesy as it may sound, I really have everything I want: my gorgeous Te, the most incredible family and future family-in-law, the best of friends, health, careers, dreams, a cute little apartment and over-the-moon-HAPPINESS... mmmm...  

Ok fine, of course there are THINGS I want...

How about... I will write about things I would like to put in our cute little apartment then?

Grey Towels: You can never have enough clean towels... 

Grey is best (us girls and our make-up).

 We have a lovely Grey-blue Country Road dinner service but we thought if we got the matching side plates it would be too matchy-matchy... so we opted for the dinner plates, bowls and mugs... Now to find white side plates we actually like...

We bought Louis Roederer Champagne while we were in Paris and it would be wonderful to drink our Champagne from the flutes below... the wide one being my favourite.

Mouth blown champagne glasses: 

Perhaps my baking and cooking will taste a little better if we had this little AGA hand mixer in the kitchen?

The white or grey Pedersen and Lennard recycle bins (medium or large) 

would be great in our kitchen.. our free trash bags we get are far too large for our little bin.

Pedersen and Lennard: Recycled Bins

Te's bicycle needs to find a safe space as the leaning-on-the-glass-sliding-door is not favourable. This nifty bike-shelf is just what we would like... (want).

Pedersen and Lennard: bike-shelf

Pedersen and Lennard: bike-shelf

Our balcony is a perfect size to entertain a couple of friends and in the 4 months we have been living here we have entertained once or twice and it was one or two guests at a time because... We have a lovely outside wheely-palette table that Te made for us, great little decor: flower/herb boxes (that have soil in but no flowers or herbs) and NO where to sit... One or two of these Dokter and Misses benches could.... sit well.

Dokter and Misses: Bench 

The white bench we do own (that we could be sitting on outside) is being used as our tv cabinet... So if we had this TV cabinet from Brak Furniture... two problems solved.

 White Lacquer Sprayed TV Cabinet

 Consider this my Birthday hint-hint-nudge-nudge List as my birthday is coming up anyway..... or perhaps more like in-my-Dream's wish list :)

Post # 17 to come... I haven't managed to capture a great Season shot just yet...

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #119 days