Pretty

F&W style: Elliott

Boxed and Ready

It's beginning to look a little like Santa's Workshop around here—boxes of stamps and cards and custom stationery all shipped and delivered with the help of my trusty, albeit disgruntled, elves at the post office.

Return to Sender

F&W stamp style: Sterling

F&W stamp style: Torrie

'Tis the season for gratitude...and custom stamp orders. I've got lots of both!

Monogram It

Instant custom stationery courtesy of a monogram stamp. Coupled with some pretty patterned washi tape, these two calligraphed letters spell fancy.

Happy (Birthday) Weekend

Before skipping town to celebrate a certain special someone's 33rd birthday, I'm busy wrapping up a few projects and sending off some final art... 

Happy Weekend, hoping yours involves cake and party hats too. 

Julie & Julia

I'm currently reading Julia Child's My Life in France, Julia writes of her husband Paul's letter writing:

"Paul took letter writing seriously: he’d set aside time for it, tried to document our day-to-day lives in a journalistic way, and usually wrote three to six pages a week in a beautiful flowing hand with a special fountain pen; often he included little sketches of places we’d visited, or photos..."

I think Paul and I would have gotten on well. I love a handwritten letter...sending, receiving... In the days of email and texting finding something other than a bill or J.Crew catalog in your mailbox is all the more rare and decidedly special. These custom monogram and address stamps were ordered as a gift for a fellow lover of letters, a kindred spirit.

Side note... It's safe to say Julia, her butter and I would have been fast friends too. She comically notes that her letters were "full of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, and exclamation points..." Ha!

F&W stamp style: EK Monogram & Katz Address

Happy Birthday from one Julie to another; silver ink on scarlet A2 envelope // F&W style: julie

White gouache on eggplant A2 envelope // F&W style: samantha

Black ink on mint 5 3/4 square envenlope // F&W style: olson

Black ink on lime A4 envelope // F&W style: abotts

Black ink on rose A4 envelope // F&W style: simms

Black ink on azure A7 envelope // F&W style: flourished thames

Custom dusty blue (cobalt blue + white) gouache on red A4 envelope // F&W style: miller

Gold ink on eggplant A2 envelope // F&W style: michelle

Black ink on powder blue A2 envelope // F&W style: emily

Black ink on ecru Crane #10 envelope // F&W style: fitts

Black ink on natural A4 envelope // F&W style: james