Sunday, April 27, 2008

Day 118 - Sunday 27th April

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily” - Sally Koch - author

What small opportunity did you grab by the horns today?

My oldest friend and Zoë’s Godmother is getting married in September and as money is a bit tight for them, I have offered to do her wedding stationery for her. I made samples up the other day and we went over to her house to discuss colours and to pick a final design.

I have never taken on such a big task as although the wedding isn’t going to be huge, I have to make invites for the day and evening, thank you cards, order of services and place name cards. I have managed to come up with a pretty simple design which I just needed to finalise the details. She has changed her colour scheme from burgundy to aubergine so I needed to try and match some card stock to the cravats. She is really easy to work with and was quite happy to go with my suggestions.

I have said I will make one final sample up with the right colours and put all the wording inside and post it to her this week, so this what I am just about to do this afternoon.
After we left her house we went to her local pub for lunch where I had the largest and scrummiest roast dinner I have ever had. I would really like to just go to sleep on the sofa now.

5 comments:

Shirley said...

Love the look of the sample on your desk Claire, your friend is so lucky to have you make these for her.
Roast lunch sounded good :)

knitkath said...

Lovely thing to do for your friend, it is a great undertaking, I know as I did it all for 2 of my children, but it is also fun!I know they will all be perfect!

Curly said...

It's great to do a job like this but I learnt the hard way that heat embossing on over a hundred invites is a bit time consuming.

Mary B said...

that card look really classy well done.

Steph said...

Invite looks great - well done you