Time for a wedding! ...almost.

Well it's getting to that point in our planning that we are needing to get on top of save the dates. Being a creative type that knows photoshop and our wanting to save money, we decided to design them ourselves. We had already talked out what we were thinking about doing so Heather sat down one day while I was at work and made a rough sketch. I got home and went from there. Our general wedding plan is do slip in the nerdy stuff we love without it being an overtly nerd wedding. Basically we're taking the classy parts and certain styles and building on them, if you know what to look for you will likely see the patterns and references but they'll be loose enough that we're expecting some "...did you guys mean to do this? is this _____?" and the answer is probably yes. Then we're fleshing it out with our love for art deco looks and we've got what is, (in my opinion) a pretty stylish wedding. Without further ado, here is the front of our save the date for what promises to be a rather.... timey wimey wedding.

Showing this around to a couple of people (the non nerd types) they immediately (thank god) picked up on the art deco theme. The fanned shape, the rays of light at the top, the background and of course the font helps sell that. But I'm sure all the Whovians out there probably noticed the tardis sitting in the middle and the Galifreyan on the edges. We'd both seen the real Doctor Who save the dates that are floating around, thanks to pinterest, but we both agreed that they were a little too overt for what we were doing. We, ironically enough, are hoping for a real timeless feel here. I suppose if you don't catch the references it could look like the music stand for a big swing band and you'd never know the difference.

For the most part this is our color scheme too, the tardis blue (though this is a bit darker for the purposes of the save the date), yellow, and grey.

The Galifreyan and background continue on the back side of the postcard just to help tie it all together and to keep the style consistent.


While it has been quite a time since I last updated the blog, expect there to be more wedding updates like this as we keep going through the planning. Now that the school year is slowing down I'll have some more time to get into a backlog of posts about my various projects through the year, the next one will likely be covering making curved wooden shields for a show, and a WW2 Captain America shield, so check back for more!

Sunday Entertainment

Today (as usual for sundays around here it seems) was a lazy day of stumbling on the internets and working on class prep. Also that cat has been crazy annoying today, from climbing on things he shouldn't to clawing at the  door molding, to continually licking and chewing on plastic things and folders and such in my office. He has been driving me crazy. The upside of it being the first week of classes is that I actually only have 6 class periods to teach and I'm done. Since we start Wednesday I get a break in classes so it is a pretty easy ease into it hand out syllabus and waste 10 minutes type of stuff. It's going to be hard to adjust to 50 minute classes after having been in college classes so hopefully this first week will give me an idea of how much or how little I can accomplish each period.

Now for the fun!

here are a couple of gifs to start us out. I think I've seen this panda before except in a kitchen setting, I wish I knew what it was from.

Because everybody loves kitties.

And finally for the gifs, potentially the favorite thing I've found in awhile, we've got a dog reacting to tasting a lime for the first time.

This next picture is just full of sheer awesome, there's nothing I don't like, Felicia Day rocks and her posting of pictures like this from Dragoncon has been a lot of fun to follow because she is having just as much fun with the fans she has been finding as they have with her. In either case I have decided that at some point in time in the future I must make Statler and Waldorf masks like this to wear around just as these two folks are doing.

For those of you out there who are Doctor Who fans here is an old DW Confidential video from christmas time and features some really neat video of Matt Smith and company and shows an interesting love he apparently has for badgers.

Also continuing on the muppet theme here is a behind the scenes video of the filming of OK Go's new muppet show cover. If you haven't seen the video for the new song check it out too it is pretty entertaining.







and now I leave you with this thought.

Until another day...