What the February

Posted: March 9, 2010 | Author: Mika | Filed under: All's Well That Ends Well | 2 Comments

…all over again?

Having the flu twice last month was miserable. Now, because March got off to such a great start, I have bronchitis.

The good news is that before I got sick enough to go to the doctor, I finally went to the library. I’m almost done with one book and will hopefully post a review by the end of the week. Imagine!

Other news? There is none.

Speaking of Christmas

Posted: March 7, 2010 | Author: Mika | Filed under: All's Well That Ends Well | 3 Comments

Did you get our Christmas card? Some of them were mailed out later than I planned, but I almost definitely sent you one. Blame the postal system if it didn’t arrive…

I thought they were amazingly cool cards. I don’t know how I’ll top them this year. My inspiration was this save-the-date postcard idea from Martha Stewart:

I wanted to include a wallet-sized family photo, so I had to change a few things. I got a larger (though still quite small) envelope, which had to be turned vertically to fit on my postcard. And I stamped our return address on the top flap of the envelope so we could see whose card was undeliverable and so friends could mail us cards, too. Want to see what I came up with?

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Originally I wanted to get a lot of vintage postcards from ebay, but that turned out to be way too expensive and complicated. I was able to find a book of old-fashioned Christmas postcards on Amazon. The envelopes were #17 Mini Envelopes bought through ActionEnvelope; they were the perfect size for the photos, which I had printed at the BYU Bookstore (I alternated between 3 of my favorite pictures from our portraits in September). I ordered a set of 100 postcard stamps online to save myself the trouble of going to the post office during December.

Total cost? About $0.85 per card. Not bad, considering the other cards I like were over $1 apiece, over $2 apiece, over $3 apiece, and over $4 apiece (do I have expensive taste?).

Admittedly, it would have been cheaper to buy a box of 12 cards from the dollar store (with change in postage, about $0.67 per card), but…definitely less cool, although I think I will go a somewhat cheaper route this year. We had almost 100 cards to mail out!

Happy Christmas again!

(Our family photos were taken by the amazing Angela of angie milne photography.)

Decorating

We (mostly I) rearranged the living room to make way for a photo backdrop for the mustache party. Now there’s a big, beige, empty wall right when you walk into the apartment. What should I do with it? For the moment I’ve started hanging my giant crossword puzzle, but I realized that it’s so big the Bwun will be able to reach it (and tear it to shreds). Besides, I’m too short to fill in any of the top spaces. The thing is 7 feet tall.