It's all British all the time here lately.

It seems to be Anglophile mania here lately. I got my fabulous Cath Kidston products last week, and tomorrow, at a ridiculously early hour of the morning, is The Royal Wedding! Yes, I'm totally one of those dorks that's completely into it.

I'm of the age when we all remember getting up obscenely early to watch Diana and Charles get married. It seems fitting to watch her son do the same.

I don't really care what Kate and William do on a daily basis, and think the press should stay out of it and let them live their lives, but boy do I love a good wedding. And a Royal Wedding is a whole stratosphere above your average wedding in fabulousness.

Yes, there are terrible things going on all over the world, as there are every day of every year, but you have to let that go and enjoy some pomp and circumstance every now and then or you'd be totally depressed all the time.

Ashley, her hubby, and their dog are coming tonight to have a sleep over so we can get up at 4am to watch it together. My hubby said to not bother waking him up for it. I told him he's a big pooper.

Ashley has secured tiaras for us to wear with our jammies, which totally rocks. I have scones, devonshire cream, lemon curd, crumpets, chocolate croissants, Prosecco w/peaches and fresh strawberries and Harney & Sons Royal Wedding Tea, which will be served in my Liberty of London teapot and matching cups. We are doing this thing up right.

Then at 9am, I will be picking up PittiPat and we will be heading off for our annual Spring quilting retreat at Evergreen in Janesville! I can't wait. I have the projects all packed. Needless to say there are waaaayyyy too many of them. I have the makings for 10 bags and 3 quilts (one of which is the Strawberry Fields quilt) packed. We all tend to bring too many projects. Do you think we have delusions of grandeur? PittiPat asks that every retreat, but I like to think that we are just optimistic.

All of those bags are projects, except the wheely one, which contains my beloved Janome 6500.

Ridiculously Freaking Fabulous!

I wandered into Target this weekend to find some of the new

items they have been showing on commercials, at Apartmen Therapy....

Can I just say, OMfreakingG!!!

Thanks to Amy who originally pointed it out to me.

On Friday, I indulged in this:

 Among other things. As I wandered the aisles admiring the happy florals, I thought "wouldn't it be great to have an umbrella like this?"
Since the products weren't officially supposed to hit the stores until today, I went back to see what new things they had. And low and behold, an umbrella!!!!

AND, the best rain wellies ever! I have been looking for a nice, comfortable, reasonably priced pair of rain boots for well over a year now to use in the rain and when we go to clean out kennels at the Husky rescue shelter.

I totally couldn't resist the hat either. It goes with the whole rain ensamble.

It's rained pretty much every day here this week, of course, now that I have such fantastic rain gear, the sun is out and there is not a stinking cloud in the sky!

Really, where is the stinking rain when you want it?