Change of heart: escort cards

Remember my fun lollipop escort cards? Well, they're out. And here's whats in:

[found here]

Paper airplane escort cards! Cute, right?

Although I loved the lollipop idea, they were fairly pricey (as candy goes) and at the end of the day, I didn't think anyone would really eat them. Paper planes will be cheaper (although a tad labor-intensive, but I don't mind obsessively folding paper while watching TV) and pack the same sort of visual punch that I am going for.

Now I just have to find great paper and review the paper plane tutorial I found online. No, I'm not kidding.

A new last name

I love my current signature. I don't write in cursive at all, except for my signature. I worked for years to perfect it. It's swooshy and kind of awesome looking, if I do say so myself.



See? I love making those L's.

Problem: I am an L no longer. My new almost-last name begins with S. I am bad at making cursive S's. Like, super bad.


Look at that pathetic cursive S in the lower right hand corner. Sad, I tell you. I like to blame my lack of cursive skills on skipping second grade, since that is the time that everyone else I know learned cursive. But I'm probably just lazy.

So I practiced:


I know, am I fifth grade or something? I made FH sign too, to see how he does his S's. I even practiced signing my new signature at stores over the weekend (no one seemed to notice or care that I was signing a different last name that what was on the credit card) and it just doesn't feel natural yet. But if you think about it, I've been writing the same combination of first and last names for roughly 25 years. That's one heck of a habit to break.