Embrace Your Geekiness
Another piece for the wedding. We had our final meeting with the caterer today – gave our final headcount, picked out our table settings – things are really coming together.
We need to talk to our venue to see if this layout could even work in the space we’re in, but we’d love to have the sweetheart table in the middle of all of the tables.
John started a blog this year to both work on his writing and to try to get his writing out into the world. His blog is titled “Coffee and the Quill”.
I wanted to create a logo/header for his blog. We discussed adjectives he’d use for his writing and himself: relatable, concise, and uninhibited were words that came up.
Gill Sans, to me, feels concise – it’s very to-the-point, no-frills, while still a bit round, so it has an air of friendliness. I also wanted to portray that ‘uninhibited’ feeling, so I used Bickham Script, which could have been written by the quill. And of course, the espresso coloring has an obvious origin.
We got John an 3DS for his birthday, along with Animal Crossing, and it’s taking a lot of will power for me not to spend all of my free time playing.
I made this mock advertisement for the T&T Mart, where you can shop in Animal Crossing.
And as a bonus, I found this awesome Animal Crossing rap when I was searching for ideas. It’s got some cussing, so don’t watch if you’re offended by a few little words.
This was next on the list of wedding things to design. I will probably make this taller and add a little note about being done at the bottom of this, but for the challenge (and so that I can go to bed), this is what I’ve got. 🙂
I feel like John and I have been planning our wedding for years. We have less than a month to go now, so we’re starting to wrap up small details. My family is full of Instagrammers, so I’m hoping everyone can share their photos from the day.
I couldn’t decide on a layout, so I thought I’d post both. Any preferences? I’m thinking we’ll print and frame this (kind of like this).
My dad always told me that you can’t rely on others for your happiness. Now that I’m becoming more familiar with Buddhist teachings, I find that this is something that is reiterated over and over.
Your feelings are generated from within, not without. One thing I find that helps create a happy mood is to just smile. Like a dork, on my way to work, I just try to smile to myself.
This is a quote from Denis Waitley that I saw on TinyBuddha’s FB. The picture is more than a few years old of my niece, skipping around in DC.
I’m feeling under the weather, so all I can think about is tea. I’m also in the middle of two books and just started a third (I have ADD sometimes when it comes to books). A Storm of Swords, Dragons of Autumn Twilight and I just started Stormdancer. Anyone else reading those?
Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76124444@N08/8037482361/
I’m not sure how long ago I learned how to knit – maybe 3 years? I feel like I’ve been doing it forever. I feel insanely guilty when I’m not producing something and I could be – knitting can be done (unless it’s a complicated pattern) while watching TV, sitting in the car, at my lunch break… And it’s a nice way to zone out while still creating something.
Elizabeth Zimmerman is a big name in knitting. She created tons of patterns but also re-introduced continental style knitting to the US after WWII. For non-knitters, continental style knitting refers to the way the yarn is wrapped around the needle to make a stitch. It’s, in my opinion, way faster than knitting English style, which requires you to drop your left needle to wrap the yarn around the right.
But, aside from that, she also had a knitting series on PBS, knit on the back of her husband’s motorcycle (how badass?) and wrote a few books.
I got the image from this lovely lady on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixwix/5284371365/
…But you did and I thank you!
This matches the Save the Dates and invitation I designed for John’s and my upcoming wedding.
Jessy coordinated a bachelorette party for me last night and it was awesome! Sushi, improv at SAK, followed by karaoke and then of course the obligatory late-night IHOP run. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten home around 3am.
Anyway, since my brain is still a bit muddled from the sake, I decided to design a little thank you card to match the rest of my wedding suite.
Another quote from the land of Skyrim. The whole story of the game revolves around these dragons that are trying to take back the earth and ultimately just end everything. Paarthurnax, an old dragon, made the choice to be good and struggled through his own instincts to make it happen.
