by Betsy | Cards + Stationery
Noah is playing with the toy truck. Sam wants the toy truck. Sam grabs it out of Noah’s hands and bops him with the front left tire when Noah tries to take it back. Sam’s mom wishes she could spontaneously disappear. The next day, Noah’s mom receives...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I guess now that social media has taken over the world, it’s time to redo all those mommy calling cards and start adding your Facebook vanity URL, your Twitter name, your Skype name, and whatever other way there is to reach you these days. Smoke signals?...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
So you reeeally should be acknowledging your friend’s high school or college kid’s graduation, but you want something just a wee bit beyond a card although not quite in gift territory. I’ve been there. Which is why I love this spectacular handcrafted...
by Mir | Cards + Stationery
I’m a huge fan of the electronic invitation, because I’m an online kinda gal. But I have to admit that sometimes there’s simply no substitute for nice stationery if you want to be proper about it. So it’s about time someone created a service...
by Betsy | Cards + Stationery
I am a list junkie, only the problem is that I tend to jot stuff down one place and lose it or write everything on one endless list so it looks like I need to buy bananas, milk and my pap smear results. Not good. That’s why I love the Shop Call Do Pads from...
by Mir | Cards + Stationery
I went to summer camp for five years, and I loved every minute of it. I also almost never wrote home, despite my mother’s exhortations, because it just seemed too much trouble to write a whole letter when there were things to do.But maybe if I’d had this...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
The beautiful new collection of modern cards, announcements and invitations from Paper Culture have me as excited as any note cards we’ve seen in a while. And we see a whole lot of note cards so that’s saying something. The baby announcements are a welcome...
by Mir | Cards + Stationery
Sure, maybe you got some pretty flowers for Mother’s Day. But where are they now? Dead and gone, I’ll wager, because flowers don’t last forever.Usually.Hoopla has recently introduced the Forever Bouquet, what you give when you care enough to send the...
by Betsy | Cards + Stationery
Don’t you love the look on your child’s face when you give her personalized pencils with her name? Now imagine the look when she gets a set of personalized note cards with her own face on it. Or at least a retro-hip illustrated version of it. Olliegraphic...
by Mir | Baby, Cards + Stationery
I am not a baby book person. I mean, I wanted to be a baby book person, but my children’s baby books ultimately overwhelmed me and now sit in a drawer, not even half filled out. I can’t remember to record every little thing! The pressure!Of course, now my...
by Betsy | Cards + Stationery
Confession time. When I was a kid I was totally into gnomes, fairies and pixies. And, while my love for airborne nymphs has diminished, I still have a soft spot for the old, bearded, chubby forest dwellers.I think that’s why I got all nostalgic when I saw these...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Personalized stationery is one of those things I never think to buy for myself, but when I get it as a gift I tear through it. So when I was looking to maybe be a little proactive and refill the stash, I was shocked to find what it cost — or at least the stuff I...