Drinking wine and solving crime

I have been watching a lot of Forensic Files on YouTube lately and felt the need to make a drinking game. Because obviously. Shots when they say/do the following:

1. "gruesome/grisly discovery"
   
2. use of lumniol
   
3. use of mitochondrial DNA
   
4. "cold-blooded"
   
5. commercial interruption mid-sentence (this is a fun YouTube phenomenon)
   
6. explanation of GPS/"Global Positioning System"
   
7. Some variant on "What they found surprised/shocked/amazed everybody."
   
8. "We couldn't have done this without the forensics."

Cheers!

Pancake of the Month: Lemon Ricotta

I really resumed PotM in August with two recipes, but since I've only just now posted them in timey-wimey fashion, I'm not surprised you missed them. In fact, since I'm posting this in a timey-wimey fashion, you may have missed this too.

I picked up the rebar cookbook from a used bookstore in Montreal (thank you very much Heather for the suggestion) and I've been meaning to cook my way through all the pancake recipes. I've had this planned for over a month, lemons and everything, but it's a bit of an intensive procedure so it's taken me a while to get around to it.^*

The result?

The post you've all been waiting for

Image credit: Rabbat photography. Posted with permission.

Sorry for the barrage of posts the past few days, but I wanted to get them in before the big reveal. Our photographer Danielle has worked like the Flash to go through and post some our wedding photos on her blog, so now you can see the dress itself in all its glory. Or something.

I'll do a more detailed post about the dress next week. For now, enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving, all!

PS: Who knew I had a "5?" Cool!

Wedding bling

Okay, I promise this is the last of my wedding kit posts (before the actual wedding dress post that is). Sorry to overload you, but I'm getting them out before Danielle posts about my wedding (she is super fast!). So sit back, I'm about to get all sparkly on your... ears.

I'll get to my jewellery in a bit, but first I'll show you the earrings I made as a thank you gift for Aged P, the DC's mom (aka MOG hee), my Aunt R, and my Best Lady/cousin J. I sent them a bunch of pictures and said "Tell me what style and what colours you want or what colours you're wearing." Three of them chose the same style, which made it very easy for me! All the earrings are made with 18 gauge sterling silver wire.

Something borrowed

A week before my wedding, I still didn't have a something borrowed. Everything else was covered: old, new, blue. I mentioned it to my Aunt R the day of the shower, and she came up trumps.

Festive florals: fake and fresh

Not that I want it to be all wedding, all the time here, but since I DIYd most of my wedding kit, I thought I'd do a few separate posts of how I made it. Today: my hair flower, my bouquet, and the DC's boutonierre.

In which PhysicsGirl decides she likes her own dress best

I have been getting quite a few requests for pictures of my wedding dress. I'm waiting for the professional shots, so you'll just have to be patient for a bit. But here are some pictures of me wearing somebody's wedding dresses. Just not mine. Warning: lots of tulle and lace and beading ahead.

Even though I knew I was going to make my dress pretty much from the get-go, I still wanted to have the experience of trying on wedding dresses while someone oohs and ahhs. My friends encouraged me to do it anyway, so I booked an appointment at Kleinfeld at the Bay Queen Street, and my Best Lady J and I went for lunch and then to gawk at tulle.

Go big or go home.

Fashionably late, but still dressed to the nines (updated)

Update: I entered this as part of the Dressed to the Nines contest. Vote for me by clicking the link and then clicking on the little heart on my picture.

I really, really like Lauren's Sugar Plum. I mean, I want to copy most of her outfits, but that dress really had visions of my own Sugar Plum dancing in my head. Fortunately, I came across this awesome polyester green/blue/cream/brown print at Downtown Fabrics that I thought would be the perfect top. I knew I wanted brown ponte for the skirt, but I couldn't find any locally. I finally bit the bullet and bought some online when I bought the Snug Hug for my wedding dress -- although I wound up not using it and you'll just have to wait for that story. Patience grasshopper.

Where it began...: Coffeeneuring #1

I married my favourite person in the world today. It was really lovely, and I'll write a blog post about it when I get the pictures back, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to coffeeneur. And post some teaser pics.

We rented the tandem, which the DC decorated; I feel we got the true @Coffeeneur experience. Just a short jaunt around City Hall, then to the restaurant, then to Grange Park to shiver while we had some photos taken. People along the way kept congratulating us.

Must have been the flowers.

After we returned the bike, we crossed the street to the Red Room, where we had our first date. We even sat at the same table. I had a very large, very welcome hot chocolate. Plus they gave us free wine!



So this year's coffee bikeventure started off on a really high note.

Mileage: 3.2 km/2 miles (or thereabouts, but cut me some slack cuz I'm the bride.)