I received the wedding announcement a while ago but forgot to put it online. I have designed it, created the artwork and send it off to the Lowlands to have it printed there. I’m happy with the result in general, there’s just one thing that’s bugging me which I noticed straight away when the card came in. I wanted a bright shiny varnish on the front. It’s a porthole and I wanted the ‘glass’ to be shiny. Also on the inside, I wanted the heart shape of the tattoo shiny.
Unfortunately the printer chose the wrong type of paper [that’s what you get for not being able to be there to sort things out] and ended up applying about 5 coats of varnish without getting the result that I wanted. I must admit I was disappointed but I reckon due to circumstances I wasn’t able to correct this, there was simply not enough time. Although I had left plenty of time to have it printed, the printer probably didn’t see this coming until the last moment. Which clearly states ‘no professional’ to me.
I don’t know this printer, he wasn’t my choice, the one that I used to work with for years never replied to my questions when I sent him an email about the assignment. So I gave up on him too. A shame because I know he would’ve done it perfectly fine. It frustrates me at times that people tend to ignore emails, they just don’t respond to them, what’s the point then in having a website and email address available for enquiries? I don’t know any good printer in London yet, I should look into this. But I couldn’t have done it here anyway since it needed to be send from the Lowlands.
I chose for the theme of a porthole and old school tattoo design because T. works and lives on a river barge. Even though I wasn’t happy with the varnish, the fact that they received so many responses -each and every one of them very positive- made it all worth it. After all if they are happy with the announcement and if others are too then that’s the biggest compliment I could get…
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Deceit
I have no respect for lies and dishonesty. I don’t understand why people feel the need to lie to each other no matter what kind of degree of lying, there is in my opinion no such thing as a white lie, lying is lying, period. I found out, someone from my past has been making things up, complete total bollocks, and I honestly believe that he/she is being deceitful. I just don’t get this, deceitful behaviour is something that is not in my vocabulary and people who practice this are kind of sad to me…
It’s annoying me, I guess I’m just very disappointed to find out his/hers true colours once again. Trust me I have been thinking hard about this and the tough bit is that I totally can’t come to terms with it and what he/she is trying to accomplish, especially when there are others involved as well. To me it feels like bragging and showing off to those around him/her by intentionally keeping the truth hidden or stretch it big time. I could end it easily and reveal the truth by making it public, which would make this person lose face.
But I won’t… Me and a very dear friend had a really good laugh instead when I told her. After all, this person already makes an utter fool of him/herself ‘en public’ [yes that’s French for publicly…]. [Edit January 2009: I honestly think this person has a slight mental problem as in making up stories that never happened or is extremely thick, I was there so was my friend IvS, we both know lies are spread…]
Btw, here’s the picture my best friend IvS sent me last Tuesday which was taken when I met up with them on the 22nd of May to have dinner. IvS and husband FvS came over from Scotland to see the Chelsea Flower Show on Wednesday. We had a drink and falafel [that’s what I’ve got in my hand] at a tiny organic restaurant/terrace [Covent Garden Plaza] and went for dinner an hour later in the same area. They really spoiled me that evening!
