Welcome

I adore Martha Stewart.  She is a woman of many options, and I love options.  I find it delightful that if one of her products at Michael’s costs $19.99, the very same item costs a mere $9.99 at Walmart.  And if you’d prefer an even less costly route, simply buy the materials at Michael’s OR Walmart for $.99, and make the item yourself using her downloadable instructions from her website free of charge. (How have people not caught on to this?)  The woman is a genius. She’s marketed the very same product to three different audiences: the women who pay to say “It’s Martha Stewart”; the women who wish they could afford Martha Stewart; and the women who want to be Martha Stewart.  (I’m in the last category, for those wondering.  And let’s face it. You are too. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here.)

That being said, welcome to The Sugarcain Project, otherwise known as “Kate & Steve: The Wedding”, otherwise known as “The Second Largest Craft Project of ALL Time.”  The first largest project being my Junior Prom, of which I was Co-Chair.  Basically the same essential requirements (theme, colors, decorations, food, etc…), except I had to either sacrifice the integrity of my ingenious ideas for the sake of committee “compromise” or waste my invaluable time convincing others to go with my superior décor ideas (as if their beauty didn’t speak for itself!)  It will be much easier this time, as I retain complete creative control.  Not to mention a smaller scale venue and a tenth of the audience.  (But let me just say that the wall-sized sunset behind the 10 foot silhouette of the Taj Mahal was totally worth the three days it took to dye the 100 yards of muslin to various sunset hues. Ah, memories!)