I had two days off work due to Thanksgiving weekend. I wish I could have a four-day weekend every weekend. University students have it easy. If they're smart (and/or lucky), they can arrange their class schedules such that they can have Monday AND Fridays off every week. I was able to do that all of senior year....which was GREAT looking back. The downside was that I had 9 hours of class non-stop every Tuesday and Thursday BUT even then, that is less time than I currently spend at work every week.
Earlier this month, I came across an online deal for customized Christmas cards through a vendor called Mixbook. For $20 (plus $6.98 shipping), I get 40 5"x7" cards+envelopes that are supposedly "silk-finished." I guess "silk-finished" means that the printing is shiny?
I like the overall result and I am hoping that the prints turn out okay, otherwise I will be sad =(. Before I set up the print on Mixbook's website, I re-sized my picture to fit almost-perfectly on a 5x7 card but for whatever reason, this was the best I could make their interface do. During the process, I learned to increase the dpi (aka dots per inch), which controls how well an image can be converted from a digital image (seen above) to print. If I was smarter, I would have asked a friend who does art & printing as a side job/hobby...well, now I know.
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