From the monthly archives:
lassy holiday cards, and Papeterie’s innovative invitations!
National Friendship Day is August 2nd (this Sunday), so I’ve decided to spend the day with my friend Molly, who was the first official college friend I made in the dorms my freshman year. I can’t wait to customize this O+D friendship card for her with one of our many classic freshman year photos. Here are a few other ideas to show your friends how much you care:
Whatever you do, be sure to acknowledge at least one of your friends that day, for as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘ The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
I have fond summer memories from my childhood where we’d head to the beach dragging our trusty green Igloo cooler filled with now vintage items like cans of RC cola, PB&J’s, and Charleston Chews. Our cooler was a monster and not much to look at, but it did hold up through the 80′s and well into the 90′s before it was desginated to a corner of the basement and forgotten about. Now that I’m planning beach trips of my own, I think it’s high time to get a cooler that’s as cute as my bathing suit! Which is why I was excited to come across these stylish coolers from Bungalow. They’re bright and colorful and will be a perfect complement to any beach trip.
Bright Summer Coolers from Bungalow
Last week, my family welcomed the newest addition to our clan of 20-plus cousins: a baby named Jane, with a mop of black hair and legs so long they landed her in the top height quartile! Jane is my aunt Blaithin’s second child, and despite 2-year old Stephen’s pleas to ‘put Jane back in the cot, Mummy,’ she’s had her hands quite full. Since Blaithin (pronounced ‘Bla-heen’) & Co. are an ocean away in Ireland, I can’t help her out by babysitting, so I happily volunteered to order Jane’s birth announcements instead. I picked a few of my favorite Cardstore.com photo birth announcements and Blaithin chose this adorable pink one from Driscoll Design. I personalized it with Jane’s impressive stats (8lb, 14oz!) and had Cardstore.com mail them directly to our relatives in Ireland, all from the comforts of my couch in California. I’d like to think of myself as a remote personal assistant –that, or just a helpful niece.
At Cardstore.com, we do our part to keep our lifestyles as green as possible. But we do have our indulgences (like printed fashion magazines) that are hard to give up. So our ‘green sensors’ went off when Papercrave highlighted these chic bowls from Luckyou. They’re made from recycled magazines and many of them are assembled by women in townships of Capetown, South Africa. Stylish, female empowering and eco-friendly, a perfect trifecta in our book!
Image via Papercrave
