von is designing a set of calling cards for me! well he won't let me call them calling cards, as he thinks those should be used in their strictly victorian sense and should have only my name on them, and what i want are name cards. but even crane's is now calling social name cards (as opposed to business cards) calling cards, so why not? i've always wanted cards since little town on the prairie. so after lunch we went to bob slate's to look at our options. von says i'm not allowed mossy green ink ("do you want to look like one of the nouveaux riches?") and no pinks. this crushed me, as i secretly wanted pink and teal, but i admit that's a bit of an eyeful even for a bimbo. you can have pretty or classy but not both. and i suspect pink and teal isn't even pretty, just bimbo. he also forbade whirly types. that's okay because i don't want an unreadable whirly type either, but i did want something readable and feminine, preferably italic, because i don't write straight under any circumstance and would like that reflected on my card. i'm also not allowed flowers (i don't really want them, i just am so influenced by laura ingalls wilder's card that i think flowers are very acceptable, but i quite see his point) anyway, they won't charge us extra to use custom plates, so von has come up with this idea: a very dark expresso brown on cream, with, on the reverse side, a very translucent hummingbird in a very dark magenta. that sounds really cool. i'm not allowed a girly type because, as he says, that and the hummingbird together are too much. one or the other, and i'd rather have the bird. can anyone draw me a nice and abstract picture of a hummingbird?