Snailmail

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I love mail.  Not bills, junk mail, magazines but plain old simple mail.  The kind I don't get enough of. Maybe I just need more friends.  I'm talking about party invitations, announcements, thank you notes and holiday cards (not just X-mas). Yes, be on the lookout for my Easter card. 

I hate evites.  Waa waa. I COMPLETELY understand why they are so popular. They are efficient, cheap and easy to make but I still dislike them.  I would rather receive an invite written with a crayon or magic marker on a white lined piece of paper than be invited somewhere via evite.com.  Maybe because I'm a visual person and a bit of a paper, texture, font junkie - who knows. Whatever the case, I want to come home from work and open up something other than my Citibank or AMEX bills.   I want something I can pin up on the bulletin board in my kitchen. 

Some of my favorite pieces of mail are birth announcements, thank you notes and birthday invites. So all my preggo buddies out there be sure to check out the super cute announcements below that I'm hoping to see in my mailbox sometime soon.

I'll start with birthday invites.  My daughter turned one a month ago hence all the children's b-day invitations.  How adorable are all the kids on these invites?  


                                                                Paperculture - unbelievable site.  Pricey though.

                                                                                        

                                                                        hi buddies

                                              Pear Tree Greetings - one of my favorite sites and super affordable.

Birth announcements.  Joy.  Laughter.  Happiness.  Miracles.  

                                                                         Paper Culture

                                                      Paper Culture                                 Pear Tree Greetings 

               Elum - letterpress = swoon.  Everything in the world should be letter-pressed. Seriously.

                                                          Pear Tree Greetings - chartreuse.  best. color. ever.

                                                   Also from Pear Tree Greetings - unique and fun.

 

Easter.  Now that I have a daughter  I feel the need to be obnoxious and constantly show her off. I decided after she was born that I was going to start sending out holidays cards for occasion's other than X-mas.  It hasn't happened yet - shocker. We'll chalk that one up to lack of funds and a husband that believes it's pretentious.  I'm going to try to send out an Easter card this year so perhaps you may see one of these gracing your fridge, bulletin board or your trash can....


                                    Paper Culture                                                               Pear Tree Greetings

My last thought.  Send thank you notes. They are meaningful - to me anyway.  My mom was and still is a stickler about this.  At age 33 she still calls to ask me if I sent out my thank you notes.  Sorry to anyone I may have missed along the way.  

                                         Egg Press - oh look nautical                         Egg Press

Egg Press - it does not get better than this.  True love.

Hello Lucky 

                                    Hello Lucky - BOOBIES!!!!!!!!!!!                 Hello Lucky - nautical. again.

Two Trick Pony - simple. cute. 

I didn't include anything wedding related. I have a very unhealthy obsession with all things wedding so that will require multiple posts.  I have 100's of images of my fav wedding invites and save the dates that need to be sorted through before I could even tackle such a post.

That's all I have for today - hope I didn't scare you into jumping over board with my dislike for evites.