Crafty Lady

So it has been a while since I've done anything crafty. School is really kicking my ass and I have just been feeling very lazy the past few months. But my best friends decided to marry each other and so I offered to make their wedding invitations. She is a librarian and he is as nerdy as it gets. So I decided to make a library card wedding invitation. Enjoy the pictures below:

This is the total package. Cute, no?

It took me several weeks to get everything ordered and made. Then a long night to put it all together.

Here is the invitation. Blurred are the names, so you don't attack me in my sleep. Don't lie, you know you would.

The reception card. Made to look like a card catalog card. They asked me to use the dewy decimal number 507.8 because that is for "science experiments". Which I thought was nice.

I made all this using excel and word. I had them printed on cream colored card stock at my college. I bought a seal press (which later became their wedding present), stickers, and library card holders all online. It was pretty fun. Tedious, yes, but the payoff was quite nice. Everyone said they liked them, I only hope they weren't lying. The wedding was fantastic, they had a really great time and looked very much in love.

See, I think the border makes it all the more magical!

Also, check out the groom's cake... code cake?! Coolest. Cake. Ever. Ammitrite?!

Geekery Abound!

So I just recently pre-ordered the new FallOut 3: New Vegas game. I am really excited about it! I was creepishly in love with the last installment, FallOut 3. In love as is played-it-for-weeks-forgot-about-all-responsibility-love. So I am really interested to see what the new one will be like. Also, I read over here that they introduced robot sex into the mix. So... that will be interesting. Anyway, no one else I've talked to about this game is as excited as me. Is anyone out there? Plus I really love the music they use. One of my favorite songs of all time is "Civilization" by the Andrew Sisters, which was found in the last game. You can check out the debut trailer here. Tell me what you think!

Any other games coming out soon-ish that you are interested in?

On a side note: I hate how all over I am with this blog, is it a geek blog? A science blog? A personal blog? Craft blog? Shit in my soda I have no idea!

I think it's because I have so many interests. I know so many people that are just really good at one thing! Boom. Done. Me? I'm kind of good at many things, my interests are all over the place. So bear with me whilst I find myself out.

Senior Research

I wish I looked this cool.

So in order to get my B.S. in Biology, I have to complete a legit research project. I have chosen to do mine on the phytoremediation properties of Brasenia schreberi. Without all the geeky, science terms; I am checking to see if this aquatic plant can "soak up" nitrates in the water. But I am having the hardest time just keeping the damn things alive!

How can such a tiny plant, give me such trouble?

They are a really neat little plant though, they have this layer of slime under the leaf and around the stem. I might have picked this particular species of plant to study just because of this slime.

WTF?!