It's so nice to hear from so many old YLF friends! <3

Jaileen, the cat sweater is not handknit. It is a really soft cashmere though! Someone gifted it to me several years ago, and I love it.

Suz, I think I had *at least* 47 hairpins in my wedding updo. I remember it took like 20 minutes at the end of the night to get them all out!

Angie, I hadn't thought of the hair as ombre, but you are right! Trust Angie to always find the bright side of things. (It's actually just the leftover dye job from a year ago, although at this point I think there's no actual color left and that's just what my hair looks like when it's been chemically lightened.)