Diet Shmiet & Tag Grief

So, Daniel and I have been on a sorta detox/diet since returning from Tahoe. I've been eating steel cut oatmeal for breakfast and veggies for dinner. (Gotta get in shape for our engagement photos, know what I mean!) Surprisingly, it's been rather doable except I feel like we'd probably run out of ideas soon---you can only cook vegetables SO many ways. (And scratch salads! Who eats those anyway?!?!) ;) Really, though. If anyone has any great recipes on how to cook up veggies or even healthy meal options---message them my way!

As for our invitations, I finally got a hold of a giant paper cutter last night at FedEx. Daniel went with me and helped slice hundreds of sheets of paper. (Weirdest thing...I've NEVER been to Kinko's before until the other day!! I didn't even know they had a self service area where you can use all their machines and cutting boards!!) GREATEST. FIND. EVER. (For me, at least.)

My hand's still sore from 'doily' punching so many tags! The project started out with these 2" x 4" manilla tags from Staples. (They only came in boxes of 500, oy! Fortunately for me...I messed up one whole batch, so I'm glad I had a ton to spare.)

I took my Martha Stewart hole puncher thingy ma' bobs that I purchased at Michael's for about $25 and hole punched the crap out of them...all 170 of them!!! (Which explains my ridiculously sore right hand. Ick.)

I wanted a rustic feel to my invitations to match the theme of our outdoor wedding, so I had to find a way to distress the tags a bit. First, I tried using a giant pot of black tea soaked with 3 Tazo tea bags which gave it a darker tint to the tags, but I realized something in the tea was making the tags super 'spotty' looking. (No bueno.) Next, I tried using a cup of Nespresso coffee which I found gave the tags a rather even, but most importantly SMOOTH texture to them. I set my oven to 350 degrees and  lined up all the tags on the sheet...line by line...tag by tag, and baked for 5-6 minutes until they were dry:

Cute, no? The tags still had a leftover scent of coffee, so I put them all in a shoebox with 3 pouches of lavender potpourri which instantly cleaned up the smell! I spent the next hour stamping all of these puppies with the personalized RSVP stamp I purchased off of rubberstamp.com.

I woke up this morning and my WHOLE body was sore. I'm going to go ahead and say it was all the work I put in yesterday making these RSVP cards. Do I regret it? Not one bit. It was totally worth every dime!!! Until next time, au revoir!