by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
With back-to-school season here, it’s the time we start thinking about teacher gifts, thank you notes, and for those of us with college kids in our lives, tokens we can send to let them know we’re missing them like crazy. For a gift idea that makes a...
by Christina Refford | Father's Day Gifts, DIY
Homemade Father’s Day cards are so perfect, whether they’re from kids old enough to manage their own craft supplies, or you know, “from the baby.” In fact we all feel like a homemade card should be part of any Father’s Day gift...
by Christina Refford | Cards + Stationery
We’ve reached the end of the school year (hooray!), but before our kids run out of those school doors for summer, let’s encourage them to write a short-but-sweet teacher thank you note. After all, a personal note from their students is the #1 pick from...
by Caroline Siegrist | Living, Cards + Stationery
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to support my fellow pandemic parents, and I’ve landed on sending some funny, “just-because” cards as a start. To be clear, I think every parent who’s survived the past 18 months deserves a...
by Christina Refford | Cards + Stationery, Kids
As I was browsing ecards for teacher appreciation week, I was thinking that when I wrote about 8 creative ways to thank our teachers during a very different Teacher Appreciation Week last year, I had no idea that a full 12 months later, many of our teachers and kids...
by Liz Gumbinner | Mother's Day Gifts
Leave it to Em & Friends, the site formerly known as Emily McDowell and Friends, to create the perfect pandemic-era Mother’s Day cards. From funny to encouraging, insightful to empathetic, they’re got to be one here that suits someone you know. As soon...
by Christina Refford | Cards + Stationery
This global pandemic has impacted so many small businesses we have loved for years, from indie bookstores to local restaurants. And, now, one of our favorite letterpress cards and gifts shop, Sapling Press has raised the alarm that they — along with about 250...
by Christina Refford | Cards + Stationery
As we enter the hundredth or so month of this COVID-19 craziness, I have been thinking so much about all the far-away friends and family I’m missing this summer: The nieces and nephews I cannot hug. The great aunt I won’t see down the Jersey Shore. The...
by Liz Gumbinner | Cards + Stationery, Gifts for Grads
Whether you need a graduation card to honor a high school senior, a college student, or maybe even a middle schooler, things are…a little different in 2020. While Christina has shared some amazing ways to honor your 2020 graduate during Covid-19, there’s...
by Liz Gumbinner | Cards + Stationery
I just got wind of Statement Cards, a new line of greeting cards designed to honor women’s successes beyond the traditional congratulatory occasions. You know, like engagements, weddings, pregnancy and childbirth. Not that there’s anything wrong with any...
