A Day at Court

Yesterday and today have been so strange! Yesterday Mr. Sunshine was telling me about how he was talking to someone at work who told him off for not helping with the wedding. I think the exact word was "uninvolved". He made up some lame excuse about me having it under control, but I think it got to him enough that a few hours later this is what happened:

Me: *addressing RSVP envelopes*
Him: (from the couch) Hey.... whatcha doin?
Me: Addressing RSVP's. Almost done! I only have about 15 more to go!
Him: Um... do you need help?
Me: Sure!
Him: I might screw it up
Me: That's okay, because it erases if you make a mistake.
Him: Um... okay then... *sits across from me at the table* How do I do this?
*** I show him how to trace the address over the carbon onto the envelope ***

So I'm all excited because this means I might have help for addressing the return address and regular addresses on our envelopes and all sorts of other things when I hear this.

MY HANNNNDDD HURRRTTTS!

So I look at him and go, "What do you mean your hand hurts! You've only done ONE! I've done 30!"

I guess he feels bad so he does another, whining the entire time that it hurts his hand so bad, asking why I'm doing this, getting mad at the paper and envelopes, etc.

So I told him to go watch tv and finished them myself.



Sometimes, it's just not worth it!


In other news, today I had to go to court (oooOOOooo) because I witnessed a car accident back around January 5th (oh). I had to be there for 9, got there, waited and waited and waited and then at 10:30 I talked to a cop who was hanging around and asked him how I know when it's my turn or what is happening. He tells me to go talk to the prosecutor during the break, so I thank him and the break starts. I go in, the guy plead guilty and I got to go home!

I think the best part is that the cop who dropped off the subpoena at my house in February suggested I take the entire day off because sometimes these cases can become extremely long, and in other cases they are settled before they begin. Needless to say, I wasn't complaining!

You'd think that with all this time I'd do something wedding related, but no. That certainly did not happen. I am sick of addressing things, so that is at the bottom of my list right now! I do, however, have to go back to school for 6pm or so because they are doing a musical and I volunteered to supervise a bunch of 7 year olds. I figure I'll go to Michael's, get some DIY stuff I am lacking, visit the post office, and slowly make my way back to work.

Ahhh, the hard life ;)

Anyone else doing some fun projects recently or thrilled a difficult or tedious one is over?

~Miss. Sunshine

Addressing RSVPs

Wanting to be a perfectionist, because I seriously cannot do anything without it being perfect, I decided to learn how to do calligraphy JUST to do my invites. Seriously did. It took hours upon hours of practice and I managed to have a decent hand at some alphabets.

So what did I need next? A good calligraphy pen with a super fine nib. Insert massive failure here! I couldn't get a nib small enough and once I did it snapped with barely any pressure on the page! I was so mad. I then decided I would go the "cheating" route and do faux-lligraphy. Be prepared, because the tutorial is coming up....


NOW!

Amazing Faux-lligraphy

By Miss. Sunshine

The first step, of course is to find a font. I ended up stumbling across http://www.dafont.com and picked out three fonts I loved. The second step was to figure out how to install it when you have Word 2007! Thank goodness for the ease of this tutorial gem: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/195151-add-a-font-on-microsoft-word-2007/ it was very, very simple!

And so I managed to create this with my favourite three fonts...

So pretty!

The big problem here was how to get any of these onto a fricken invite! Most people use a light table or some sort of light/glass rig, but my envelopes are so thick this was not a possibility for me. Not even in the least. So after a day at work randomly thinking about it I got this "aha!" moment!

  

I'm such a genius! For those of you who have never used carbon paper before, it's that weird black paper that back in the good old days was used to make second and third copies of something. Before FedEx and Canada Post did everything electronically, you had to fill out forms on this and press hard-- reallllllllly hard. Anyways, I thought that this would be the best thing to used and it was amazing. 

My only tips:

1. Practice on a piece of paper first. Getting the pressure right is key. Since you don't want to see the lines really dark on the invite, you want to press softly. How softly you need to press will be dependent on the paper you use and how "used" it is.

2. Do NOT rub your fingers on this and then touch your invites. You will cry. I promise.

Anyways, to make it easy for positioning and such I then killed a few trees by printing off different spacing in boxes and font sizes until I came to the perfect combination.

Many trees were harmed in the making of this labeling system.

I then took the carbon paper and cut out a smallish piece, cut out one of my labels and grabbed an envelope. Tip number three-- there IS a top and bottom to an envelope. Make sure you check before you write.

I placed the carbon paper dark side down onto the envelope and positioned my label as perfectly centred as I could...

Then, I carefully and lightly (have I stressed that enough yet?) traced over my printout. I could not take a picture of the traced lines because they were that faint. Seriously. I mean, it could also be because I put gray onto gray but such is life!

My tracing skills are incredible!

As you can see, quite some time later I now have three done. Yep. Three out of 40. I think this is mostly because simply doing one involves cutting out a small paper, positioning it on carbon paper, carefully tracing it onto the invite, then taking it off and retracing it with a super fine (0.5mm) black gel ink pen, and finally putting it to dry without smudging. It will certainly be a long night!

Three done... of 40.

Any project conundrums you've solved? This has been my biggest "aha" so far, I believe, but I'm sure there will be more!

~Miss. Sunshine