shoelaces and what?

happy tuesday

jerilynn looks so beautiful as a mother, doesn't she?

mandy, i emailed you a long, rambly email about what i do for a living these days. hopefully it's useful to you.

it's been a busy day. i'm glad for lunch. sadly, xerox man (lovely superhero name, yes?) is going to arrive in a few minutes and disturb it. ah well.

a hypothetical question for you all:

so about two months ago you designed the wedding program for a sweet local methodist girl. 7 x 7 inch square, simple folded deal, the elegant Bickham Script Pro paired with stately little Copperplate. The finished proof got stuck in your massive Folder of Wedding Junk, which on occasion you drag out of the file cabinet to show to indecisive customers.

this month, yet another one of those sweet local (possibly methodist) girls comes in and needs a wedding program. She has a basic idea drawn up. Then she looks through your massive Folder of Wedding Junk and sees methodist-girl's program.

"Oh," she gushes, "do it like this."

Exactly like this?

"Yeah, here, just put my name in, and change all the other wording, and it'll be great."

Erm... but this wedding was only two months ago... are you sure you want to blatantly rip off the design? What if we make it less square, for a start, to match your invitations (which were 8.5 x 5.5 inch rectangles). What if we not include all the details exactly the same? I can make you your own custom layout too, how's that sound?

"I want it just like this one, dang it!"

Sigh.

Anyway, what would you have done?

The customer is always right, of course. But geez... local girl 2 even knew local girl 1 personally. local girl 1 might even get a chance to see these programs. What is local girl 2 thinking!?

Sigh.

To be sneaky and to make it at least a little bit original, i swapped out the Copperplate for Engravers.

Geez people are funny.