Christmas cards in the making
Chrissy and I spent a day making Christmas cards for the year. It was great fun printing and stamping cards although I got sick of writing cards midway. There were just too many cards to write and it was hard to think of a customized message and not those generic ones for all. It wasn't hard, I was just lazy to think.
We thought that making cards together would be a fun activity to do together.
Remember how I said we learn new things about each other every day?
While shopping for paper:
C: Let's choose this one.
G: It's okay, but I was hoping to get something a little stiffer so that it would feel more like a proper card you know?
C: Why! I don't like cards that are too stiff.
G: (speechless)
While trying to design the card:
G: What nice funny quote or message shall we put inside?
C: Let's leave it blank.
G: Why! Won't it be nice to have a funny message inside?
C: Nahh I don't like cards with one liners in them and then the person has to write around the whole space.
(:
And through this process I realised one thing. I have lost my ability to write in a straight line in a blank space.
THE HORROR.
Thank goodness I am less particular about the whole perfectionism nonsense these days if not I would be re-writing a lot of cards (again I attribute it to my laziness). I've learnt this "i don't really care anymore" attitude works really well for me. In this case I mean to say that I've learnt to cope better with mistakes and not to add so much pressure over silly things like that.
Chris writes beautifully in a straight line. Of course I had to inject an engineer joke to that.
So those of you getting cards written by the both of us (we each wrote half of the message. He would write part of it then I would continue it. More fun that way), you would notice that the bottom half, which is mostly written by me, is the one that ruins the entire card cos it starts to slant.
Writing in a straight line is a gift I tell you. A gift that Chris says he is more than willing to give me if he could. I am so touched.
I also ruined the cards because my handwriting is not as nice.
I am so proud to have a boyfriend with nice handwriting. And even though it is nicer than mine and I ought to be ashamed of myself because I am a girl, my heart beams with pride.
Of course I say this all with humour in my heart.
Now there were some slight printing errors in the cards...
C: Oh no then how??
G: Then we give those uglier cards to those people we don't really like.
C: No! The reason why we are giving out cards is because we like these people! People whom we don't like don't even get cards.
G: HAHA. Oh yeah, you're right.
Of course we're only joking. We're just silly that way.
We thought that making cards together would be a fun activity to do together.
Remember how I said we learn new things about each other every day?
While shopping for paper:
C: Let's choose this one.
G: It's okay, but I was hoping to get something a little stiffer so that it would feel more like a proper card you know?
C: Why! I don't like cards that are too stiff.
G: (speechless)
While trying to design the card:
G: What nice funny quote or message shall we put inside?
C: Let's leave it blank.
G: Why! Won't it be nice to have a funny message inside?
C: Nahh I don't like cards with one liners in them and then the person has to write around the whole space.
(:
And through this process I realised one thing. I have lost my ability to write in a straight line in a blank space.
THE HORROR.
Thank goodness I am less particular about the whole perfectionism nonsense these days if not I would be re-writing a lot of cards (again I attribute it to my laziness). I've learnt this "i don't really care anymore" attitude works really well for me. In this case I mean to say that I've learnt to cope better with mistakes and not to add so much pressure over silly things like that.
Chris writes beautifully in a straight line. Of course I had to inject an engineer joke to that.
So those of you getting cards written by the both of us (we each wrote half of the message. He would write part of it then I would continue it. More fun that way), you would notice that the bottom half, which is mostly written by me, is the one that ruins the entire card cos it starts to slant.
Writing in a straight line is a gift I tell you. A gift that Chris says he is more than willing to give me if he could. I am so touched.
I also ruined the cards because my handwriting is not as nice.
I am so proud to have a boyfriend with nice handwriting. And even though it is nicer than mine and I ought to be ashamed of myself because I am a girl, my heart beams with pride.
Of course I say this all with humour in my heart.
Now there were some slight printing errors in the cards...
C: Oh no then how??
G: Then we give those uglier cards to those people we don't really like.
C: No! The reason why we are giving out cards is because we like these people! People whom we don't like don't even get cards.
G: HAHA. Oh yeah, you're right.
Of course we're only joking. We're just silly that way.