Gocco meets tears

I broke down and bought a gocco printer. I don't know what made me decide I could spend 200 dollars on some printer thingy, especially considering I am not planning on using it to make my invitations (which would have saved me money). Instead I wasted a lot of money, and now I feel I must use this crazy contraption on a bagillion other DIY projects to make up for my splurge.

So today, I present my first ever Gocco'd project; Tears Of Joy packets! I bought glassine envelopes off of ebay, printed a design I quickly put together in powerpoint, and voila! I was a gocco printing machine. (Personal Photos)

I know these have become fairly popular in the wedding blogosphere, but I've actually never seen them gocco'd before, and I'm pleased to say they look nice and were SUPER easy to make. I am a little scared by how smooth things went. I almost feel like it was the calm before a really bad gocco storm.

Did you splurge on a super unnecessary item and then buy more things to rationalize the original splurge?