crafty crafty

So I randomly will decide to get crafty at times.  Ok, I know that cross stitching can be considered crafty but there’s not too much personal creativity in it for me (because there’s a pattern to follow) – but that’s part of the joy of it for me.  I think it’s a math-brained thing really.

But I do like to get creative sometimes.  I really loved coming up with the various paper design elements for our wedding – the programs, the place cards and the table numbers.  I think that part of it was that I spent easily 3 hours or more searching the internet for a free source to provide me with the exact same font on our wedding invitations (I found it a whole bunch of places for sale for about $50).

Of course, what you can’t see (and there aren’t pictures) is that inside each place card there’s a “fun fact” about us (thanks to Ruben and Sarah for that idea) and on the back of each “table number” is a story about our time spent in each state.

I’d also designed the invitations for my matron of honor’s bridal shower and bachelorette party.  If I wasn’t in NC, I might make the effort to dig them out and take pictures.

Sometimes I wonder about trying to make an actual paying side project out of it like Michelle has but then I just don’t think I’m creative enough in a graphic design sense and I stick to just doing what I like for people I like – and myself, of course.  Besides, I don’t need to encourage my Paper Source habit in the slightest.

Oh – and I’m lazy.

Oh – and I really am going somewhere with this. 

I swear. 

It’s just that sometimes I feel the need for intros when I launch into something new and then the posts get really long if I continue on to my point and I don’t like that.