Thursday, January 27, 2011

gift wrapping made cheap!

- the only way i do it!

i don't really get into christmas very much, but i do like to get a little something for my family and closest friends. usually i wrap these little somethings in newspaper (no color printing) with red ribbon, and black paper tags with silver pen: i like the crafty industrial-ness of the black and white with the bright flash of red. but this year i found a bunch of business cards left over from a job i had for about six months, and i decided to use newspaper in a different, more graphic way.

(really, i just can't bear to throw away good card stock that's only printed on one side... :P )

so, i present, the "financial section gift tag" - ta da! hahah. they're smudgy, but super-cute.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

fickle weather

it was a toasty 60+ degrees today, sunny and bright. short sleeves in abundance! i laugh to think of the new students in town, thinking that they'll be going to college in a italianate climate - too bad for them! five days ago it was damp and overcast and almost gloomy. not gonna lie; i prefer the gloomy. i headed up to the park in said gloomy-ness, and romped about in the mud with fashionable boots and my camera. who cares about camera shake in atmosphere like this!

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Sunday, January 2, 2011