Some of you who know me, know that I'm getting married soon...\r\nYesterday I ran into an issue that I felt was worthy of a short story.\r\nMy girlfriend and I are trying to do a modest wedding and are keeping\r\ncosts down where we can; one of the places we cut back was on wedding\r\ninvitations and rsvp cards. We stopped into Michaels and picked up 3\r\nDIY packs that should suffice our 100+ crowd of adults plus children\r\nand created them in MS Word. I have an small-office laser printer in my\r\nhome office that prints faster than I thought was possible and it was\r\nWAY easier than I ever expected and we only spent $100ish dollars.

So\r\n2 days after we printed them all and put them aside I get a call during\r\nthe day: \"Honey what are we going to do? All of the wedding invitations\r\nare still wet, and they smudge at the smallest touch!\". When I got home\r\nthat night and surveyed that they were in fact not drying that she\r\nwasn't nuts, I came to the most obvious conclusion that any sain purson\r\ncould: \"Lets put em in the oven\".

Click Read More for Directions and Pictures!

So I've spent some time working on renovating my kitchen. In all there will be \r\n

\r\n
• new floors (tile)
\r\n
• new backsplash (redish glass tiles)
\r\n
• new Corian countertops (sandstone)
\r\n
• Replaced all the 'dead-end' cabinents with corner units
\r\n
• Gas cooktop with wall oven (electric) installed below
\r\n
• Corian built in sink with new faucets
\r\n
• Removed old dry wall closet/pantry and will replace with one matching cabinets
\r\n

I own a new townhouse that is ruffly 1600sq feet, making use of that space is important and certain looks/styles make the place look bland or like an apartment.

\r\nOne of the biggest offenders in my place was this blank wall under the stairs to the upstairs. I had this stupid little country shelf where crap just got thrown and the rest was blank.

\r\nMy solution was to build a built in shelf, one that would hold DVDs since we were lacking a good solution up until this point.