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I’ve been playing with Wordle, making word clouds that I could somehow incorporate into the wedding. Not sure for what yet? The invitations maybe? Table numbers? A big poster? Anyway, it’s fun to pick fonts and colors and I like the way it looks and how it has significance to us as a couple. I ended up using text from the story of the development of our relationship and I like that you get the main gist from the big words and then can dig down and read the smaller ones. But really you could use text from anything, whether a favorite story or poem, or even emails you’ve written to each other… Or if you both have blogs it can pull the words from the RSS feed. Lots of possibilities!

2008 was the first year that more people lived in cities than rural areas. Unfortunately over 1 billion are living in slums. These amazing photos document the lives and homes of people living in 4 different cities around the world.

So we made the trek down to the Making Memories with Scrapbooking store and although it was far it was totally worth it. They have such an amazing selection and we were able to find a nice card stock to mount our save the date magnets on. The best part was that since it’s my birthday month, I got 25% off my purchase. It was also great to check out all the wonderfully creative cards and wedding invitation samples they had throughout the store. They have a wedding invitations class coming up soon and if it weren’t so far I’d really consider going.

So we got a new printer, yay! First thing I did was print a test sheet, a photo, and a pdf (calendar from Mibo). The pdf came out pretty good so I am happy enough. The photo left much to be desired, but it’s not a photo printer so I can’t complain.

What’s with the ‘usb cable not included’ racket though? Why can’t the printer just come with a cable that probably 99% of people buying the printer will need? We got the printer at Future Shop where they were selling the USB cables for an outrageous $30. So we went accross the street to NCIX and got one for $7. Yeesh.

The magnets came in the mail today, so I guess it only took 2 weeks when I was expecting them to take 3. That’s not bad. The quality is ok. I’m really picky about printing though but I guess for the price I can’t complain. So as long as I don’t start getting mystery charges on my credit card I’ll have to say VistaPrint isn’t all that bad.

Now I am researching printers because I decided I don’t want to address all of these Save the Date envelopes by hand. Besides, we’ve been meaning to get a printer anyway because every so often we’ll need to print something at home and it’s annoying to have to take it out and do it somewhere else.

I also want to buy some cardstock to mount the magnets on, but I don’t really know where to find nice paper in Vancouver. I checked the Staples website but their cardstock colors are so blah. There’s always Michael’s but the locations here are far out in the burbs. A google search turned up this place called Making Memories with Scrapbooking, it’s also kind of far but looks very paperlicous. Looks like I’m going to have a busy week-end because I’d really like to get these all stuffed and ready to send out by Monday.