So as I have mentioned before, I tried my hand at my own stationery business once. So of course that would lead me to the crazy idea of creating my own business cards. I saw some really cute ideas for hand crafted business cards on Pinterest as I was casually browsing the site in bed a few nights ago.
WAIT. Hold that thought. I wanna talk about smart phones in bed for a hot sec.
Do you do it? I don't think I know anyone (except my 92 year old grandma who still doesn't even own a cell phone), who doesn't. My husband and I can literally be sitting on the couch, with both of our noses in our phones, and look at each other as it nears a certain time, say "oh it's time to go to bed," and head upstairs to our bedroom, only to do the same thing for the next hour or two under the covers. Like we literally move 30 feet to basically tap our screens in a different position.
All of that constant technology in our face cannot be good thing. Especially at night. I've read articles about how the constant glow from the screen of the phone keeps our brains from relaxing/shutting down for proper sleep, and it's contributing to unneccessary stress and anxiety. Most people even have a true addiction to their phone/internet. We have wifi signals and cellular networks constantly buzzing around our skulls, exposing us to constant radiowaves/radiation. If futuristic cancer turns out to be a side effect from constant cell phone use, I will be getting that cancer.
That's a pretty funny joke except that there IS proof surfacing that cell phone radiation is causing cancer. Teenage girls who kept their cell phones stored in their bras developed breast cancer in the very spot that cell phone was kept. TEENAGE GIRLS WITH BREAST CANCER. Sure it's great that we have the world at our fingertips, and it's like having a library of information in our hands at all times. But 9 times out of 10 we're just mindlessly wasting away our time. AMIRIGHT? I'd like to hear your argument if you're not on pinterest, facebook, twitter, instagram, or any other social networking site 24/7. Tell me you're not checking blog stats, retweeting, favoriting, liking, or saving memes to text to friends or post somewhere. Tell me all about how you're reading research articles and learning about the latest and greatest advances in biochemistry.
It's kind of sad actually. For the first time in history our generation has access to an INCREDIBLE wealth of knowledge. You don't have to trek to the library to find the latest information on whatever subject you want to learn/write/hypochondriacally obsesss about. All you have to do is type it into a search engine and in less than 1 second (unless your internet sucks balls), you will have a million answers all competing for your click. But we don't use the internet for this reason most of the time. We use it to pass our time.
The other thing that makes me sort of sad is that we are living in a world in which we are constantly connected to each other, yet we never really connect anymore. People are legitimately losing their people skills. Communication skills are now dominated by text messages and emoticons.
I love this poem by Erin Hanson and it pretty much sums up my argument here:
That girl has crazy sick talent. Her words somehow know exactly how to pierce through me like a dagger. But that is another blog post entirely. If you haven't heard of her, take a peek at some of her stuff. She is going to be insanely famous someday....
Ok. Sorry for my long winded rant against cell phones. I love them. I do. But enough is enough. SO ANYWAAAAAAAAYS....
Back to my DIY project from yesterday. I saw some great ideas on Pinterest for DIY and handpainted business cards, and like I said, it only felt natural that I should try my hand at a few of these babies.
And I have to say, I really loved the way the turned out! I had some really hefty cardstock in a few colors I liked, printed these puppies off at 10 per page (2x3.5inches each), and cut them with my rotary cutter so they would be nice and perfectly rectangle. I gave a handful of them a hand torn edge just for an extra special effect. Afterward, I layed them out next to each other and took a small paintbrush with thinned latex paint and kind of methodically splattered it around. After they dried (took about an hour), I have to say the end result really surprised me. I love how they have a textured feel to them with the paint! And they are so me! I couldn't be happier with how they turned out.
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