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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

DIY Invitations and how to not kill your printer

I haven't mentioned it yet, but both the fiance and I are pretty computer savvy. I actually taught myself a little photoshop to pass the time when the boy was younger. I also like to try my hand at things that seem cheaper to make, than to buy.

With that in mind, let me tell you a tale. This tale starts out nicely, where my photoshop and I have a loving relationship. I take the time to lovingly pie e together an invite that looks like I spent some sort of my eye on it and didn't just use Microsoft Paint.  The perfect shade of blue. Just right nautical stars. The perfect size and angled anchors. I ordered my card stock and envelopes. They arrived with such speed, I was excited to print the and assemble the envelopes. I even splurged on self-adhesive envelopes!

I am a friend to technology. I use it on the regular. In fact, most of my posts are drafted through mobile, because...lazy. Not the point. Airplanes and my wifi, however, not friends. I live in a flight path. My printer is wireless.  When said planes fly over said wifi connection, said connection decides to blink.  Blinking means interrupting the print job.  Which means half a printed invitation.  Now, let us discuss exactly how happy I am to have bought the pack of card stock that had 100+ invites in it.  (we won't discuss that that was the smallest pack I could purchase)  It took three printing attempts and two computers before we realized what was going on.  I was done.  So done.  I was going to throw everything out the window and set up a FaceBook invite.  Because.  Klassy.  So much so that it needed a K.  

Moral of the story?  Check your wireless connection, sit near your router, and pet the printer while telling it that it really is special.  I promise, that totally works.  Totally.

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