Wednesday Nov 21st 2007
Merry Birthday!!!
Now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are over, we can start thinking about Christmas. I love Christmas; it's definitely my favorite time of year. And it's not just because of all the presents and good cheer. It's also because I have a Christmas birthday. Yes, that's right, my birthday is December 28th. Everyone I talk to about this says "It must have been rough, sharing your birthday week with JC, but it's never really been a problem for me, and i'm sure JC hasn't even noticed much.
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My family was never mean, or cheap enough to try and combine my birthday and Christmas into one big Merry Birthday celebration, which I am really glad for. I think they set a good precident early, so none of my relatives were able to get off the hook for just one present for both events. I'm a little more grown up these days, so I won't mind if people send me Merry Birthday Ecards. It actually works out well, because many of my friends are on holidays during the Christmas break, so it makes it easy for them to come to my Birthday party. It's a busy time though so I always have to be sure to send out the Birthday party invitations early enough so people can plan to attend in that busy season. It's always worked out well for me. Everyone's in a good mood and filled with holiday cheer; either that, or they're ready to get away from their families for a night and party down with their good friends. This party should be the best yet.I sent out the Christmas/Birthday Party invitations today and people have already started to respond. I don't think my man JC will be able to make it, but I can't really blame him; he'll probably be a little tired after the whole world celebrates his birthday on the 25th.
Friday Sept 14th 2007
Invitation to be Cheap
I'm getting married next summer. I'm really looking forward to the day, and I'm very happy about my fiancee, but I gotta tell you: Wedding planning is not easy. That being said, I need to admit that I'm hardly doing anything. A lot of nodding in agreement whenever possible is the name of the game if you're a groom to be. What's really difficult is watching the amount of money we're spending on this oh so special day. So far we've taken care of the place, the cake, the dress, the decorations in the past few weeks, and just yesterday we turned our attention to the wedding invitations.
Wedding invitations are a tricky thing and it's not just wedding invitations any more. According to some awesome bride magazine that my fiancee read, the new and trendy things are to send out "save the date" cards about 4 months before you send out the invitations. Save the date cards are invitations to the wedding invitations and are essentially, just another way for you to spend cashola more on your wedding.
We picked out a nice design with cherry blossoms on it. It's a very nice design and it only cost something like $50.
I started looking for some cheaper options. MyFunCards has some cool options for invitations, but they're really more party invitations. They're all animated and you can't really print them. They're all a little too jokey for a proper wedding invitations. Then I started playing around with the other free greeting card/invitation program on this site, EZ Cards. You really can make some cool looking cards and invitations with this program. I made some nice simple ones to show my fiancée what could be done for free. She liked them so much that she agreed to send the ones I made out as the Invitations to the Invitations or the ‘save the day' cards we talked about. She still wants to send professionally designed invitations for the actual invitations, but I was happy to contribute in this small way. And the save the day cards really do look good.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really not that cheap. I'm keen on having the nicest wedding invitations ever, and even the nicest invitations to the invitations. I'm pretty much resigned to making it the nicest day ever in whatever way I can, and if that means inviting people twice, then I'm all for it. I just wish she didn't have to write my name in such fancy pink letters, but I'll get over it.
Tuesday July 31th 2007
Ecards are Warm Fuzzies
Everyone likes getting a card from someone special. You knew this in kindergarten, and you know this now. Remember back in Kindergarten? My favorite holiday in school was Valentines day. Valentines day meant that you got to make a special basket for your desk and every student in your class would give you a small card with something nice written on it. You could count on a card from every kid, from Sally, the cute girl with the strawberry blonde hair, to Ricky, the one who smelled a little like pee.
As you'd get older you'd start going through each of the cards you received looking for little extra touches that the girls might have left just for you. A simple heart, over the small letter I, in place of a boring dot, could send you swooning, or into a cootie induced rage, depending on your opinion of the opposite sex at the time.
We don't do Valentines day like that any more, and I don't even think they do in school any more. Terrible shame, because there's no better feeling than getting and giving a little warm fuzzy to or from someone you care about.
That's the spirit of this website; You don't always need a reason to send someone an ecard, printable card, or greeting card, but you can be sure that whoever you send one of these to, will get a little rush of good feelings and hopefully it'll be contageous.
And that's my plan for World Peace. hehe.
