Logo

Look up.

We are playing with our final logo so it may look different over the coming week or so.

Do you like it?

Blank hedgies

I am in love with these hedgehogs. Robot Candy's cards are "printed one at a time, using hand carved blocks." Name is cool. Technique is cool. Two girls starting a company together -- always cool.

They say it doesn't smell

I am all for saving wildlife... but do they have to call it Poo Poo Paper?

Apple scoops me. Again

Somebody call my patent lawyer. I need to get this model I have for alcoholic greeting cards into legalese.

More on how Apple continues to revolutionize how we get basically everything.

Design spin

Things that have caught our eyes in the last few weeks ...

• OhJoy! blogs from the Stationery Show in NYC this week. Next year for PEP. Next year...
• Mollaspace features pretty, delicate things and lots of weird ashtrays
• Irene Hoofs features the "beauty of things created and happy" from artists around the world at Bloesem
• Print and Pattern is a U.K. blog focused on surface pattern design. Looking at this page is like looking at the walls of Doreen's studio.
• And last, but not least, HONK IF YOU LIKE CHEESE
  

Calif., Mass. wedding guests rejoice

There is a new line of same-sex, all occasion cards -- celebrating everything from adoption to Jewish holidays and anniversaries -- which are being billed as "family friendly." The approach is a good one for this underserved market, which is mostly dominated by, well -- NOT so family-friendly tone. OpenCloset celebrates families and love "with gay regards" -- in all shapes and sizes.

Hungry?

I did some blogging over at Maine Food & Lifestyle last weekend as part of a story I am writing on classic Maine eateries. I drove more than 800 miles over five days -- some

highlights: Blueberry pie from Maine Diner; strawberry pie with cream from Helens; fresh local burger with hand cut fries from A-1; pancakes at Moody's; and a granddaddy lobster roll from Red's. Yes, that's an entire tail, plus a lot of claw meat. Those were just a fraction of things we ate along the way. Read more at Plating Up.

Freeee Coffeeee of the iced variety!!

The summer season is officially in full swing! I bought my first iced coffee the other day and took my flip flops out of the closet.
And to add to my glee Dunkin Donuts has made today FREE ICED COFFEE DAY!! From 10 am- 10 pm you can get a free 16 oz. iced coffeee. Weee! My mind is so excited for the free caffeine buzz, I must go get one now! Ooops it just came to my attention that I left the "D" out of "iced" in my illo ha ha, that's why I'm not the writer :)

The scary aisle

My brother needed some Mother's Day reinforcements the other night, so we took a quick trip to the frightening mecca that is SuperWalmart. We went to the card section -- after passing the brilliantly placed "quick grab" gifts of ice tea makers, candles, flowers and candy -- and were faced with a sight that probably only has its match on Christmas eve in a stocking stuffer aisle: men, and men with their young children, grabbing at every heavy-card stock, flowered, singing, script-emblazoned greeting card they could find an envelope for. Art to follow as soon as I get back to Virginia.

For the record, I purchased all of my cards 2 weeks ago -- when the getting was still good.

For the boys --- and girls -- in harm's way

A Nebraska woman is campaigning to get 1 million greeting cards to troops. Her initiative is called "Make Two Tell Two" -- and it doesn't matter if the cards are purchased or hand made, the idea is to get them there. Here's how to help: Send cards to Make2 Tell2, 991 Road 325, Harvard, NE 68944 or go online. The deadline is June 1.

Waiting

Have e-vites made us ruder? The NYT explores how folks deal with electronic invitations of all kinds. It takes a lot to plan a party these days. I like to send invitations at least a few weeks in advance for any gathering of more than 10 -- but the last time I did a written, hand addressed invite set, I got the worst response ever. Of course it was for a 60th birthday party. It seems the older you get, the busier you become.