1 Set Down, 2 to Go

The thank you cards for my first bridal shower will be in the mail this morning. THANK GOD! Just in time to start preparing the invitations (Booooooooooooo!) to be mailed on Monday. I am so the Post Office's b*tch for the next two weeks. The next time the attendants at the PO in my office building are rude to me, I am going to glare at them, tell them that my name is "Job Security," and show them the receipts for the $3,000 that I've spent on postage this year between wedding-related mailings and etsy and eBay purchases.


Anyway, I love the way the TYs came out. I think that they are my favorite wedding project yet. I made my own envelopes! I'll post photos next week, but here's a sneak peek:

I couldn't resist on the stamps! (Even if it was more postage.) I can just hear my mother saying "Tina, you're 33. You need to act like it." To which I would respond by rolling my eyes at her and asking her to make me chipped beef or green beans with white sauce.


My bridal shower with Andy's family is Sunday. It's the one that's a cooking class at Sur La Table. I am actually getting embarrassed when I tell people what my showers are. Someone's spoiled...

Sendin' Out in Style (i.e., The Obligatory Stamp Post)

Although stamps like this would be fun, they're expensive. And if I'm too cheap to cough up cash for calligraphy, you better believe that I can't get myself to cough up cash for decorative stamps. (Much less stamps that maybe six people would notice.) Those stamps have a HUGE markup! ($84.75 for $42 worth of postage!)

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Besides, I'm on dot overload. Too much of an OK thing is a bad thing. And I could never put our photos on a stamp unless we were in costume or something totally camp. So we're going with Frank Sinatra stamps instead. They're fun, cheap, and more likely to be noticed by my family members.


The RSVP postcards will have 41 cent Celebrate stamps. I hate giving the P.O. extra postage, but I am just high-maintenance enough to refuse to put a blue panther on my invites.




I'm kind of disappointed in myself. I always thought that I'd be the type of girl to spend hours looking for fun vintage stamps. But at the end of the day, I'd rather serve Garrett's Popcorn as favors than spend money on stamps that will end up in the bin, you know? I guess that I'm not as much as a Martha Girl as I thought. Who would have thought that food trumps style for me? OMG. My Joe's Jeans just collapsed laughing at that. Now they're running from the room in fear. (Ha, Ha.)

(Stamp images from USPS)

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Update:

I meant to reschedule this post since I added the Andy post. Oops. I saw the tropical fruit stamps last week, but didn't realize that they were postcard stamps. However, the I can't get past the fact that the papaya looks like a vagina (and so does the guava a little) and the Kiwi and Star Fruits look like rectums. (Isn't "rectum" funnier than the slang words for that?) The Pomegranate would actual work, but it looks like an illustration of something internal too.

Son of a B*tch

I am about to order the Celebrate stamps:

Image: United States Post Office

for our Save the Dates:

and decided to check the Champion Stamp site for kicks. I found these on page 4:

Image: Champion Stamp

Unfortunately, I'd have to buy 10 sheets at $17.50/ea to get enough of the hand stamps* for my STDs and still cough up another $10.80 in postage. That's a lot of change for something that no one but me would notice. But it's still a funny coincidence, no? Martha would have been impressed!

*Not to mention that I'd have 100 29 cent stamps featuring a mom telling her baby to "hang loose" floating around the house.