Future.

Went to my second PRSA OKC chapter meeting this afternoon and got pretty inspired to make (pardon me) shit happen at work.  I'll be completely honest, after New Year's, I haven't been the most motivated, compelled or even excited to get to work in the mornings.  I would much rather scuff around the house in my robe, drinking a tasty hot tea.  I'm too young to be this boring. 

I think a good jolt of energy will come next Monday, when we're finally housed in our original location - a cool, old fire station.  Back in June, our offices got completely ruined by a crazy flood.  Crazy as in helicopter-people-rescues-crazy.  The flood day, the day of despair and tragedy for the Arts Council, was my first day of work.  Talk about a bad omen, huh?  "Turn baaaack!"  "Do not enterrrrr!"  Haha, I just imagine little ghosts flying around the old building yelling at me.

Here's a gorgeous photo of some flooded nastiness. 

So, back to this coming Monday.  We're moving into a freshly-renovated office space with all new Ikea furniture, great lighting, polished concrete floors, new paint, etc.  It might be just what I need to shake me up a bit so I don't get too far-removed from the duties of my job.  I really do enjoy it here - great folks, great events, even greater hours.  I'll be happy to have a 'new' home. 

Wedding Design Struggle

Out of everything involved in planning the coolest wedding in the world, the absolute hardest task for me is determining how to design our save the dates/invites/stationery.  Surprised?  Yeah, me too.  I've done plenty of wedding designs for friends, colleagues and even strangers.  I have about fifteen thousand ideas floating around in my head, but for some reason, I'm having a difficult time harnessing my thoughts and cranking out a great wedding suite.  Trust me, I am frustrated beyond my ends.  I even (gasp!) thought about asking a friend to do them so I'd quit racking my brain.  I think this comment from one of my design pals made me even more nervous!  (It honestly made me laugh/relax a bit...thank you, Jeff Clark.)

I had zero tough time figuring out my flowers, cake, dress (OK, maybe a little bit of searching!), the date, etc, etc, etc.  Finally, Mr. Level-Headed-Trotter said, "Em, whatever you make will be great.  You just need to sit down and actually get the save the dates done.  Then we'll work on the invitations."  Deal.

I've ordered our paper and envelopes, and, pat on our backs, they're made of 100% recycled materials.  Green is good, folks.  Then tonight I decided we needed a cute little return address stamp, which will be used long after the wedding is over.  And, friends, it's so much more affordable to order a stamp (think of all the fun colors!) than to print your return address on your envelopes.  The latter costs more because your print house has to run them through a special press - the cost could probably start at $55, maybe more.  Anyway, I love stamps and here's where I ordered ours.  I got 2 and my total was about $24.  Boom.

We're also giving away little treats at the end of the evening in sweet little bags, so we thought stamping on those could be neat, too.  While I won't show you the save the date design just yet, I will show you our two little stamps.  Simple, clean, yes.  At least my hamster wheel is turning...we'll see how it all turns out!  (Turns?  Get it???  Oh, nevermind.)