It’s Saturday morning, the day of the wedding. I have to get ready in a while so I won’t be writing a long post. Yesterday morning I met up with Christiaan at ‘De Prins’ to have a chat with him, a personal one because it was just the two of us instead of a whole bunch of people. I didn’t forget to bring him the DVDs that I’d burnt this time. De Prins is a cozy little pub at Prinsengracht and I used to go there ages ago to have a nice cup of coffee and some breakfast or lunch. We ended up talking for almost three hours catching up on the latest news.
I was really happy Christiaan had time for me in the morning, it just didn’t feel right that I didn’t speak to him that much yesterday. Unfortunately he had to rush back home because of a mistake I made: I checked my clock and noticed it was only midday not realising that it was still on UK time… I only found out when Christiaan received a text message because he was running late. I called C. too, to tell her about the mistake because I was supposed to be back at 13.00 as well: I promised her Friday would be ‘her’ day, a day of relaxing and pampering. She didn’t mind though.
Around 14.45 we left to bring my bicycle back to the storage unit because I wouldn’t be needing it any longer. I was happy in a way because the weather had been really pants so far, pissing down rain once again, opposed to yesterday when the sun was out and shining, it was a beautiful day yesterday! C. took the wrong route and we ended up in traffic jams. It took us over an hour to take back the bicycle and get back home and not just because of the fact that we also stopped at KFC to get something to eat. Amsterdam is a mess at the moment: lots of roadwork all over town. To be honest, it has never been any different.
We spent the evening faffing and pampering, the usual girls stuff… until A. came over at 22.00… It’s past 10.00 now so I’d better get ready for the wedding. C. has gone to the hairdresser along with a friend of hers. Another friend just popped over to decorate the front door. I have a few hours left still but I’ll probably end up being in a rush so I’d better go! Later!
Btw, the weather is lovely, I think it’s going to be a perfect day! 
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Bold Print
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…
