Color Scheme

Maybe not the orange...

Project 10": January Edition

In the December Edition, my hair was 6" below the earlobes.   

Today, halfway through January, the measurement is as follows...

6.75" below the earlobes. I am right on schedule!

DIY - not so hard!

I had no idea how to get my hands on Adobe Illustrator, and everything I learned about PhotoShop is a vague and distant memory. I'm not too confident in my designing skills anyway, but I do know my way around Microsoft Word.

I pretty much copied a graphic I found from a save-the-date that I liked onto a Word document. Then I used almost the same wording on that save-the-date, then found similar fonts on my work computer!

I didn't know how to put four on one page like a postcard, so I just made it a full 8.5" x 11" size to be scaled at the copier's

I saved it as a PDF, put it on a flash drive and made my way to Kinko's. There, they got me my cardstock, scaled it down to fit four on a page, and made a buncha color copies! The colors turned out perfectly, and it looks like a bona fide save-the-date!

We saved a whole lot of money doing it ourselves, and now, making our own invitations and RSVP cards doesn't seem so hard!

Save the Date

Thanks to the wealth of unmonitored time at work and fonts on my work computer, we have "designed" our save-the-dates! We're not big on stationary, but we want our stuff to look clean and nice and elegant. Here's a little sneeeek peeeek! 

Thanks, Kinko's!

Pablo

Welcome to my classroom. In my classroom I have a desk. On the desk I have a framed picture. Next to the framed picture is... 

PABLO! (aka little blue guy) 

Solar power helps his head to move left to right to left to right ALL DAY. He's blue...AND green! :) It's awesome!

I got this last year, and it was one of the cutest most unexpected gifts I got from Cyrus! ...But not as cute or unexpected as the engagement ring, of course. :)

INAuguration training

2009 is a very special year! Not only is it a new start for Cyrus and me AND my brother and FSIL Ollie, but it's a new start for our country with Barack Obama as president! I had the privilege of being chosen as a volunteer (15,000 chosen out of 80,000 that applied!) for the inaugural events next week!

The evidence:

It was so exciting! The best part about it? We got these hats! ("Presidential Inauguration 2009 Volunteer")


See you on the Mall at 5:00am next Tuesday!

Sam & Simon

Cyrus and I had the privilege of attending the wedding of our friends Sam & Simon this weekend! What a gorgeous wedding! The couple was on a budget, so we were warned not to expect much. But this wedding was decadent, large but somehow intimate, and you could feel how much heart the friends and family of this couple put in to make this happen! We couldn't get a shot of Sam & Simon, but here's one we took of ourselves! :)

The only thing we could complain about was a stinky diaper.

Congratulations, Sam & Simon! We wish you happiness forever and ever and ever!