It is the
Final Countdown down to the last three days until the magical day in which I
promise myself to the woman I love for the rest of my life. 3 days left and it
is creeping up fast on me there is so many little things that I have left to do
as well as a lot of family events that I am required to attend. The amount of
time I have to do things is significantly less than the amount of time I need
to do everything, there are a lot of times I find myself saying “I will do that
after the wedding”
With so few
days left there was still a big amount of things to do this weekend that
required my attention. I spent two days laying down sod and doing other
finishing touches on the home renovations at my folks place. That is relevant to
the overall event because they are taking on a big burden of handling the rehearsal
BBQ so the least I could do is give them a hand.
I am coming
out of a weekend more exhausted then I was going into it with so many tasks
left before the big day. There were a lot of little things that still needed
procuring and that included two trips to Michael’s to pick up some needed
supplies. I finally got to finish the seating chart I still may put a couple of
finishing touches tonight if I get the chance to but we will see.
I got to have some creative liberties with the
seating chart. This will be the first thing that folks will see when they walk
into the reception and guide them to find their fictional organization. So the
first requirement is that it needed to be big. So I started by obtaining a
piece of foam board and a poster board and picked the smaller size to work off
of.
This project
was an excellent excuse for me to get a new set of water colours to create the
primary background. First I painted a base of golden yellow trying to coat as
much as possible to give the entire thing a underlay. Next I used a brown to
give the entire thing a texture and make the background have more depth to it.
Using some
stickers I found in the sale area of the scrapbooking section of Michael’s I
formed the borders in the corners. Once the poser board had dried I affixed
with glue the poster board to the foam board.
Using a
basic printer I printed out a card for each table which I had designed on my
computer using the table toppers as a basis to keep continuity. After printing
I found the colours to not be organic enough for the effect I wanted so I added
a water colour overlay. Here is where I get to apply little ingenuity, instead
of using basic water for this water colour I brewed some coffee and used that
with the golden yellow.
After using
the water colour on the table cards I attached each card to a dark brown piece
of texture card stock. This adds a much needed contrast to the entire thing
with the light browns and yellows this bold accent makes everything stand out a
lot more.
With ruler
in hand I laid out all the cards in the appropriate order on the poster board
and I only screwed up the order once yay go me. I used some of the Wify’s books
that she always has lying around to weigh down the cards in order to allow the
glue to dry. This process also stopped the wet white glue from causing the
paper to curl.
There are
still some things that if I had some more time I would like to try but unfortunately
I do not have the time to do them. In some ways I feel like this looks like a
grade school project but it is what it is and that is just my inner
self-loathing critic talking so let us ignore him and be proud of my accomplishment. My coffee table is a utter mess after a large mix media project such as one like this, but this is just one of the prices of art.
Sincerely
Urban Yeti
