Graduation Cards

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Graduation cards are not my specialty, shall we say? Here are four I made for my family to give Simon tonight. They're coming over to celebrate tonight with pizza and wings.

Here they are in descending order of preference, because I always save the best for last, don't I?

Because I flat-out ran out of ideas. The spirelli in the center is from my cards part drawer. I'd made a bunch of them this size into pins, then decided they are too big. The school colors are red and white, at least I thought they were. Simon's gown is blue and the tassel is red and blue. As I recall from DJ's ceremony last year, the girls wear red gowns and the boys wear blue? Seems sort of pathetic that I don't know the school colors, doesn't it, for a school district Simon has been in for 12 years?

Heart Balloons. Wish I'd spread them out more or added more or something. I used Mizuhiki cord for the strings. Sorta okay.

My standard grad card - a scroll. I like the clean lines and fonts chosen though.

I'm kinda diggin' this one! It was sort of plain until I added the gold ribbon around the tassle. But my favorite part is the 06. It's something I've been wanting to try. I die-cut the numbers 4 times and stacked them. I love the effect - I'll be doing more of that.

I'm sure my enthusiasm for these 4 cards probably has my family heading for the Hallmark store as we speak.

Simon has one final exam this year - Politics - next Monday. I asked him if we're having the party kind of prematurely and he assured me we are not. The ceremony is next Thursday. For one who isn't big on tradition and ceremony, I'm finding the ceremony oddly important to me and I'm very much looking forward to it.

Work has been crazy busy - for everyone, not just me. It's a good problem to have but I've been having trouble this week kicking it up a notch like I need to. I'm going through the motions but my heart isn't in it. I'm blaming it on hormones and think I'll be back to normal next week.

The woman that does accounts payable for us was assigned to Grand Jury duty. In our county that means all day, every day, for 4 weeks. I wasn't that worried about coverage for her position because there were 6 of us splitting up the work. After covering for my accounts receivable counterpart for 3 months, this was going to seem like a breeze. However, she called this week and was able to change it to their new rotating version. Apparently it's a new way they are trying but don't really publicize it or something. So she'll go for 2 days and 3 days/week, alternating for a few weeks. It's weird, it's only 11 days total, instead of the 20 she was originally assigned to - all because she asked. This is how a couple of surrounding counties do it, which makes much more sense. The straight 4 weeks thing has to be an imposition for anyone - except maybe retired folks. It has to really suck for sales people who get paid on commission - not working for a month. Or single moms who have to pay for day care if they can't make other arrangements. Plus the county doesn't reimburse for parking. Guess that's a good built-in source of revenue for them.

So mostly that's why I haven't posted in a week. Feeling blah. This too shall pass.