I’m not a perfectionist…
Really I’m not, I just do what you have to do to get things done, perfectly.
It’s funny the things you face in life sometimes. Earlier tonight I was hand-feeding my printer little papers to print out baby shower invites for a shower I’m giving. They’re only 7 x 5 inches, and will be 3 1/2 x 5 inches when finished. My printer was being very finicky and I had to push them all the way back with a pencil, because the paper tray pusher thing is not centered on the paper and thus the paper goes in crooked when I was just using that to push it back and so I figured out it’s just easier to use a pencil and carefully push it back in the center of the paper. Then I gently tap the paper on each side to make sure it’s in straight. Then I hit print, and repeated it 16 times.
Yeah, I’m not a perfectionist, I just do what you have to do to get things done, perfectly.
Really, this comes down to wanting invitations that were not written in my own hand-writing, and not having scrap-booking stuff to make oh so cute and personalized invites, so I went and saw invitations I could print and thought, “These are the ones I need, because no one wants to see my janky hand-writing on an invitation.” I didn’t even want to write the addresses on the envelopes, so I took the time and figured out how to print them on there.
I just want to note, if I was a true perfectionist, I’d go buy new transparent paper and print new info on them to put in the announcements, since I realized the ink stayed wet f.o.r.e.v.e.r. and half the invitations became slightly smeared. I ended up blotting the invites, that is correct, I blotted them to help them from smearing more, at least I hope it helped.
(Anna, don’t worry about the invites, I was just mostly annoyed at them and sorry for any smears, I tried to give you the nicest one to have for yourself. )
July 16th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I’m not worried. I’m sure they’re wonderful. A lot of times we notice a lot more wrong with our own work than anyone else will ever notice. For instance, I feel the same way about my costumes. I notice things that no one would ever notice or care about. Sorry that they were such a pain, though. ๐
July 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I love the way you said that…you just do what you have to do to get things done perfectly! I’m going to say that from now on because Elliott always says I’m a perfectionist. I too, take the time to make sure they are right the first time, but I would never start all over on invites either just because of some smears!