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On Writing Thank You Notes…

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First of all, I really should own a stationery store or company with all the excitement I have regarding notes and letters and pretty papers.

The other day I got a sweet email from someone asking if Reynolds has learned to write a thank you note.  Sadly, he has not, but he’ll scribble his name or trace his hand on a birthday card so that counts for something, right?!  {We’re getting there…}

That email did get me thinking about the fact that I have not written thank you notes just yet for all the Christmas gifts we received {sigh…} and I can’t believe that January is half-way over so I’ve got to get on them…fast!  So where do you go for help to write your thank you notes?  I’m not the most creative person when it comes to writing {or anything else} so sometimes I need a little inspiration.

Well, lucky for us, Gifts.com has created a helpful guide to inspire us all. It provides tips and examples on how to properly write a thank you note, including some do’s and don’ts to make our friends and family members feel appreciated.  It really is terrific!

Now go get your stationary, I’ll get mine!, and let’s get writing! Don’t worry about being too formal, a thank you will always put a smile on anyone’s face!

If you’re in need of Thank You notes or stationery, check out my last post about Basic Invite or check out the link below!

Happy writing!

Basic Invite :: A Mini-Review

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Oh hey!  It’s me…I’m sorry I totally fell off the planet for four weeks…  I guess that’s what a newborn will do to you.  How, with this being our third child, I didn’t anticipate that, I don’t know but I didn’t.  So thanks for being so gracious when I totally didn’t finish with the Christmas Carols posts when I REALLY REALLY wanted to.  Maybe a goal for this year {Christmas is only 347 days away you know…}.

So Happy New Year!  I hope you all had an amazing Christmas season and rang in the new year with great flair!  I was asleep by 10:30 so I didn’t see the great crystal ball drop, but I was up at 2:30 a.m. if that counts for anything…

I’m back…or at least, I’m trying to BE back.  Emory is almost eight weeks old now (can’t believe it really) and I’m getting myself prepped to go back to work in the next few weeks.

Before Christmas, literally right after Emory was born, I had someone from Basic Invite reach out to me and ask if I’d be willing to review their stationery…  Um, yes.  I told him that I am a BIG fan of stationery and would love to see their product(s).  He sent me the info and here’s what I have to say about them.  {If you want to check them out, there’s a link over there on the right →}

And y’all know what I fan I am of both stationery and a certain few stationery shops.

Basic Invite is amazing.  Seriously.  I was sitting in my room pumping (sorry if that’s TMI), looking at the sample kit I’d received in the mail and I truly got school-girl excited.  The paper.  The colors.  The peel and seal envelopes.  Really, they had me at peel…

So then I got on the site to design a dedication invite for Emory and it was such a great experience!  So.many.options.  I started off with this invite:

Then, I discovered that you can change EVERYTHING.  The colors!!  Basic Invite LOVES color, which is why you literally have a rainbow of colors to choose from for all aspects of the invitations.  Love it or they will either reprint your order for free or you can return the product for a full refund.

The wording – you can CHANGE anything…all of it if you want.  

The paper…and I have to say the Luxe Velvet is so elegant.

AND, almost all envelope options are peel and stick. No licking. No taping.  Peel and stick.

At checkout you’re able to review your invitation and the options you chose for your particular invite.  Also, like most companies, you have standard quantities/prices, but then you’re able to choose your own number (15 wasn’t a preset option, but I’m able to specify that I want 15).

Seriously, this is all so incredibly fantastic!  Told you.

And that’s not all!!  Free Printables?!  Yes, FREE. Printables.

Father’s day card and gift tags – hello?! adorable.

Valentine’s Day Coupons – Forget V-day, I’m printing these asap!

Rustic Placemat – I absolutely adore this and will be printing these now…

I’m really excited about getting my first order – I ordered Emory’s dedication invites from Basic…and I’ll update you guys once I receive my order on timeliness and overall satisfaction of the product!

Hope you all have an amazing HUMP day!

Paper and Crayons

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I’m a card person.  A paper person maybe.  I love stationery and pretty things on which to write notes, messages and anything else.  I’m not entirely sure where this love comes from, but as a child my grandparents sent me cards for special occasions and when I was in college I would receive sweet notes from my mom and friends.  It was always so exciting to receive a pretty envelope that you knew was not something about grades or a bill, but a letter…from someone…who was thinking about you.

So in college I had a box of stationery…pretty papers, envelopes and even stickers for writing and sending letters.  It has carried into this home but instead of just a box, I have a little two drawer chest that mainly has all of mine, Reynolds’ and Eliza Jane’s stationery.  Remember last year when I bought thank you cards for the kids from Tiny Prints?  It’s got stationery that I received when Andrew and I got married: pretty red cards with my new initials embossed on the cover.   Cards that Andrew had made with my new initials as well as some that have “Mr. & Mrs…..” which are so special.  Then I’ve got random paper in there like graph paper (from highschool(?!), resume paper, fun scissors, all kinds of pens, markers, color pencils and crayons.

I think it was last year, that I announced to my husband that I didn’t particularly want (need) a gift for Mother’s Day, but rather, I just wanted a card.  And a hand made card…using paper, crayons, markers, scissors if needed, etc.

I got just that.  A card made from construction paper that had a sweet note from my husband, a traced hand of Reynolds and even something from Eliza Jane (who had not even been born yet).  Talk about special.  That’s better than anything I’ve ever received from Hallmark (not that I don’t love Hallmark).  For Christmas and Valentine’s this year Andrew did the same – he gave me an “Andrew card”.  They’re the absolute best!

So today, when I was asked by the Tiny Prints community board what my favorite gift has been so far, I almost said the simply gorgeous lilies Andrew got me for my birthday that were seriously the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever received.  Or the fun dishes I got for my birthday – that a special group of friends had collaborated together on, or even the kimono-ish robe I got in the mail from another friend.  Nope, I submitted that it was the hand made card I’d received from my husband on Valentine’s Day.  Where he used a piece of résumé paper and crayons.  He even drew red hearts on the outside.  On the inside was just a sweet note from him that speaks more truly than any Hallmark card could.

Maybe it was the time he took to do that, and not just his creativity, that makes it so special.  Yes, pretty sure that was it.  But paper and crayons, they’re not just for kids.

vday card

 

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