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Happy Tuesday to you, lovelies!  Ok, so prepare to be psyched, because we’ve got another fabutastic Bloggista to introduce today, and she’s kicking her Bloggistaship off strong-style with a seriously harrowing tale of one of THE WORST things that can go wrong as your wedding approaches.   {Continue reading…}

Hello sunshines!  It’s Monday, which means we’re kicking off Bloggistas Take Over week here at TKB!  I gotta say, I’m crazy thrilled to introduce to you guys our first Bloggista of the week, Kristine!  {Continue reading…}

That was my best Britney Spears accent, in the title.  Yeeeaaaahh, I’m still working on it.

Ok, SO!  Happy Friday afternoon, my friends, my lovers, my pals!!   The day has finally come.  We’re traveling for the first time in what feels like AGES, and, well, we couldn’t be more excited about it.  We haven’t been on a real trip in waaaaaaaay too long, and we’re doubly excited because we’re kickin’ it with some good friends… though they’re vendors of the photographer and cinematographer variety which means that we’ll be covering up our a$$es and other problem areas THE ENTIRE TIME.  TGIS!  (Thank Goodness For Sarongs.)  {Continue reading…}

Can you guess where they are?  I can’t keep a secret they’re in a candy shop photo booth!

Happy Thursday evenin’, honey bunnies!  Ok SO.  I’ve switched things up today, because we received an urgent question from a reader who needs help (if you couldn’t tell by the title of this post), and I definitely need your help figuring out what she should do.  Reason?  I have nada zip zilch nowhere near the understanding or personal life experience that it’s gonna take to provide the answer she needs.  Oh, and paired up with the reader question?  The killingest APROPOS sneak peek of a stylish little candy shop shoot, that’s totally like I said apropos, and totally killingest.   {Continue reading…}

FYI, this bride’s jewelry needs to report to my neck immediately.  

Happy Wednesday eeeeeevuhhning, my lovahs from otha mothahs!!  On this beautiful Wednesday night, I can’t imagine a better way to start a post, than with a phone conversation you weren’t involved in.  Amirite?  HERE WE GO:

*ring ring ring ring*

Mom: hellooooo?

Me: Hey Maaaahhhm.

Mom: hiiii sweeeetiiieeeeeee.  WHADDYA WANT!  *giggle*  I’m kidding, wussup?  {Continue reading…}

Happy Tuesday afternoo- errr late evening, bubelahs!  How you doin’, you doin’ well?  You feelin’ good?  Weather nice, near you?  I love your shoes today.  How’s the guy, he good?  Yeah, he’s doing well?  Good, good.  ALRIGHT SMALL TALK OVER.

I took my {Continue reading…}

Sometimes Starbucks coffee is a bit bitter, but sometimes Starbucks coffee is the liquified embodiment of the moment of creation/discovery of the essence of all that is bitter in this cold, unforgiving world by the esteemed inventor of bitterness himself, Sir Bitter McBiddingston, IV, Esq.

Uggh.  I’m sitting here, on this shockingly beautiful Monday afternoon, {Continue reading…}

check it out.  check out that swagger up top.  almost as much swagger as this duck has.  

not as much; almost.

FYI, I love this wedding, and I really think you’re gonna love it, too.  For starters, it’s not the typical wedding I drop onto the internet’s face.  It’s full of peacock feathers, button bouquets, lace and button boutonnieres, galoshes and just general DIY adorableness.  What I’m excited about is that the bride is pretty hilarious, and her write-up is jam-packed with important details and advice.  It is as refreshingly informative as it is amazeballsly amazeballs.

But before we get to that, I feel I should tell you something.  Now, I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but {Continue reading…}

two of my fave things are in these photos, but can you guess what the third is?  it’s not revealed up there…

Happy Wednesday afternoon/eveningish, lovies!  Three – count ‘em, three! – photographer friends recently asked me to make sure I include some Bambino in their features, so I’m telling you, if you’ve been suffering without your Bam fix a bit, relax, he’s back.  I do want to warn you, though, that Bambino is en fuego today in aisle 4 of the Adorable Department.  He’s not performing as well in the {Continue reading…}

Happy Tuesday afternoon!  I hope you’re excited, because today I’ve got a totally random story, a super festive fabric-focused wedding, and pretty intensely bad cramps!  Last one’s actually not very exciting at all.  At all.  Atttt alllll.  Any remedies you guys can suggest for my ovaries?  They seem very mad at me, and all I did was not use them again.

In any case, I’m just so glad I have this wedding to keep my mind off of that last bit.  And this guy…  {Continue reading…}

Happiest of happy afternoons, dear friends!  How you doin’, eh?  You doin’ aight?  I hope so, I do.  Would you like a massage?  Yes?  Me too, get in line.

Listen, I’m moderately psyched right now because it’s turning out {Continue reading…}

*faints*

Happy Thursday afternoon, lovahs!  I’m starting this baby off with kind of a serious question for youz guyz.  We get a derriereload of reader email requesting {Continue reading…}

SO!

As we continue to review Bloggista applications (if you haven’t heard from us yet, please don’t fret, it’s taking us LIKE FOREVS to get through them and decide. you kind of all hit us with all of your best shots, rendering it painfully difficult to make quick, easy decisions. which likely means that about five times as many Bloggistas as once planned will actually get a LET’S-DO-THIS from TKB. a good thing?  methinks…)

… Like WHOA.  Tangent in the premiere paragraph, eh Alison?  My affliction is growing worse by the hour.  Here, let me get back on track…

As I was saying, I’m truly overjoyed about this particular Wednesday afternoon, and mind you I’m saying that while trying to survive from inside the thickest and most aggressive cloud of puppy gas ever documented by man.  So, why the transcendant excitement, despite these hardships?  Because today is the day I get to introduce to you our newest Bloggista and DIY Contributor.  Huzzah and mitzvahs!  Her name is Andrea Gray Harper, and she’s the talent behind AGH Event Maker.  And the inspiration she sent me a couple weeks back for her very first introductory post pretty much blew my BRAINS OUT.   {Continue reading…}

↑ Get outta my dreams, get into my car.

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Whew!  Happy Monday afternoon, my friends my buddies.  I’m relieved to report that the hurricane’s over, and we made it out alive.  Thank you ALL for your incredibly kind well-wishes and concern!  I’ll tell you, there were some light breezes that, for a moment there at the height of the storm, we thought *for sure* were going to blow some loose papers directly into our faces, potentially – and this was the worst case scenario – potentially leaving behind some of the meanest paper cuts ever left on a face. {Continue reading…}

FYI, ↑ these cakes ↑ have got me by the balls.

First things first – happy weekend, folks!  An early Saturday morning post is happening right now.  Yes, literally.  It’s like midnight.  This is happening, in part, because I feel like communicating with you all before we inevitably lose power this weekend, but mostly because something happened yesterday that blew my Friday RIGHT UP.  So, among other things, here’s that story.

All I’ve been able to do is think about two major situations that are impacting the virtual world, and the physical world, respectively: One has to do with Pinterest, and the other is this goshforsaken Hurricane Irene that’s about to slam into my face.  And that’s when I realized something.   {Continue reading…}

So, apologies in advance if this post gets a touch out of hand.

How’s your Thursday afternoon going – going well?  I’m also accepting “good!”  - see, no judgment here at TKB.  Yeah, so that was some intense blog post titling, eh, up there?  I’ve always wanted to write “bride lives to tell… [enter life-changing experience here]” or some variation on it.  Can check that off the bucket list now.  (Listen I’m not gonna sit here and say I’m proud of the items on my bucket list.)

Ok enough pleasantries, listen up.  I’ve been a proponent of chalkboards and birch in yo’ weddin’ for what, a year now?  Wait, what’s that?  Almost everyone is a proponent of those things?  True, true.  You got me.  You got me good.  Lemme throw something else atcha face then.  … Ok got one, howzabout this: I need the mustaches to come to a screeching {Continue reading…}

I’m sure you’ve seen me express my love and affection for Ryan Gosling over the time you and I have known one another.  Especially if you use Twitter, because on Twitter you know I do it on a regular basis.  Because I love Gosling like McAdams loves Gosling. That’s right I’m Alison, that girl who tweets about Ryan Gosling and also weddings.  In fact my Gosling tweets are like in my top five most retweeted, so you’ve given me no reason to put a stop to this.  Fun fact: coitus- and kindess-related tweets are in the top five, too.  Coitus and kindness, they go hand in hand!  Or minimally so.  And kindness has no place at all if you’re kinky.  I’m moving on.  {Continue reading…}

I have news.  I now know what an earthquake feels like, since, as many of you know, one just happened along what seems to be the entire eastern seaboard, including parts of Canada.  I’ve always wondered how I’d react in an earthquake situation, and I’m proud to say that I know the answer to that now.  That is where the pride ends, though.  Here’s what I did and thought as the eaaarth. mooooooved. undah-mah-feet:

What I did - remained still; looked Ames Shocked.

What I thought to myself -  {Continue reading…}

Happy Monday afternoon, everybody!  There’s a reader out there who needs a little advice regarding her body.  But I think this question could stand to be heard by all of us.

Question from a reader:

“I’m in a little situation for which I have only myself to blame, but I’m hoping you can give me some advice, because at this point I’m completely unsure about what to do and if I’ll regret it or not.   {Continue reading…}

I’ve had this pair of boy short underwear sitting on my desk – my desk, on it – for four days now as a visual reminder to buy more boy short underwear for a vacation we’re going on soon.

Guess if I’ve bought more boy short underwear yet.  Go ahead, guess.

Anyway.  It’s late Friday afternoon, friendsicles!  And I’m excited to leave you with this magical post, as we head into our weekends. {Continue reading…}

My friends, my buddies, my pals.  Today is a special day here in Knottyland.  For, today, I get to introduce you to our very first Bloggista.  Whaaaaaaaat????  I KNOW. I’m trembling with delight and anticipation and also because this building shakes all day and I’m just generally trembling.  But I assure you it is PRONOUNCED.  Because holy heck, there is reason to be excited.  {Continue reading…}