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My goal for January was to get the Save the Dates made. While they are technically not yet made, they are out of my hands.

I ended up going for magnets from VistaPrint. I was extremely hesitant to use VistaPrint because there are tons and tons and tons of horrible reviews about them (just do a quick Google search and you’ll see), BUT one of my coworkers has used them a few times and had no complaints or mystery charges on her credit card so I decided to give it a go. Said coworker also hooked me up with an email promotion she had received for free magnets, so that was my starting point.

All I have to say though is that VistaPrint sure works hard to make a buck and does leave a bad taste. For example I was hemming and hawing over whether to order 50 or 100 magnets, it was $8 for 50 and $26 for 100 (which makes no sense whatsoever), in the end because of their funny ’shipping/processing’ charges ($8 for 50, $9 for 100), I got confused and figured I would just get the 100 and have it over and done with. Although now that I’m sitting down and doing the math I see that it would have been cheaper to order 2 sets of 50. Oooops.

To add insult, as soon as my order was sent through (point of no return because they claim the millisecond you hit that button the order is sent to their production system, making changes or cancellations impossible) I got an offer for another 100 magnets for only $13 with no ’shipping’ charges! Makes me wonder if something similar would have happened if I had just ordered 50 to begin with and tacked another 50 on for a discounted price. I could have really saved! I’m already having buyers remorse and haven’t even seen the goods!

Has anyone else had any experiences ordering from VistaPrint?

Ok so it’s January and it seems cliche to say that I am starting the Couch to 5K running program. I have good intentions to see it through to the 9th week yadda yadda yadda but it’s more about the journey, right? And a journey needs good music.

So that’s why I was pretty happy to find out that there are quite a few Couch to 5K podcasts out there to make the journey more enjoyable. Unfortunately after downloading and listening to a few them and realizing they would actually be more of a disincentive to run, I realized like so many other things in my life (it seems everything?!) I was gonna have to DIY it.

Thanks to the googles I found a step by step guide on how to Create your own interval running playlist. So far I’ve spent more time making the playlist to go running than I have actually running. But let’s just keep that between us.

Here’s an example of a gorgeous Ikea sewing studio. I love how it looks so light and airy even though it’s in a basement. That EXPEDIT bookcase sure is popular for studios. It’s great to see things being used, rather than just imagining it in your head. For example when I was at Ikea about a month ago buying my sewing machine table I seriously considered buying the VIKA ARTUR trestles for a cutting table (although at the moment I have nowhere to put it) because the white ones were on sale for a pretty good price. But I wasn’t sure if they were what I really wanted for a cutting table or if they would work. But it looks like it works in that studio! See more lovely photos at The Yvestown Blog.

My first encounter with Marimekko was discovering a vintage dress from the 1960s in the Clothing and Textiles collection at my University. The dress was one of the pieces in the collection that was lacking documentation so I took it up as a class project and delved in to the research and have been a fan ever since.

Today I discovered they offer free desktop wallpapers on their site. I’m getting a Marimekko theme going on at my computer with my Marimekko desktop and mousepad.

Spent all day working on a website for the wedding. Now that it’s actually happening This Year I really ought to get crackin. Found this Wedding website wiki page over at Wedding Bee a very good starting point.

I ended up throwing together a simpel site using wordpress. I’ll post about the whats and hows soon.

I like the simple charm of these Felix Doolittle wedding invitations. A simple illustration that is repeated throughout the event ties everything together quite nicely. I am still strongly considering a blueberry wedding theme and they have a very cute blueberry option.