confession

i think i want to be a scrapbooker!
i've always liked cutting things up and, of course, stickers.

what i don't understand is when scrapbooking became a retail category in it's own. there's nothing scrappy about that! when i purchased the corner punches for our invitations, i went into "archiver's" for the first time. totally overwhelming. riduclously, unforgivingly, expensive. they had beautiful sheets of paper wrapped in shiny celophane envelopes, tons of themed stickers, and even fake passport stamps. for my scrapbook, i am inspired to use the actual scraps of my life. not purchase the scraps and make more scraps. silly! andrew bird tickets stubs, post-it love notes, our first piece of mail addressed to the "kajander family," how could i simply recycle those things?

i have this box of hundreds of tiny origami paper squares, in the most beautiful colors and patterns imaginable. i brougt them to a women's retreat last year, and my friends cut them up as part of an art project. i used them for making the advent calendar last christmas, which was my last crafty effort. i had been wondering what to do with them next. seriously, hundreds of them! they will be right at home decorating my scrapbook. i think big sometimes. i can already imagine this idea turning into a scrap-pile.

more gentle

we put our wedding invitations in the mail!

i can go back to being a good person.

how did the process of making our wedding invitations become a metaphor for life?

i worried too much about the little things. the guest list. the addresses. a smart lady told me one time that "it's none of your business what other people think of you." i need to remember that.

as bill murray says in meatballs, "it just doesn't matter."

i thought i could take it easy. some days i did, some days i did not.

after looking at countless samples of wedding invitations. after discussing the difference between "inchworm" and "chartreuse." after getting to know the staff at paper depot. after falling in love with andy a little bit more; they are in the mail.



the most important part to andy was that they were colorful. they are. the most important part to me was that the corners were rounded. it makes the paper seem more gentle. rounded corners, i think, are easier on the eyes, easier to hold on to.

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so, i wrote this little blog entry a few days ago and i was going to post it on my old myspace blog. but it does not seem to belong there. the myspace blog was so fun to write. it encouraged me to take notes on my life, to pay attention. but i feel like i've grown out of it. i'm 30 for heaven's sake! and facebook is too full of words already.

so here's my new blog. thanks for reading it!

now you go write something down too.