A new year. A new plan.


For 2011, after struggling to come up with a singular New Years Resolution for ourselves, we decided to do break down our ideas and goals and do each of them for a set period of time. We started on January 3rd with "Not Eating Out" for 36.5 days and set out to keep the momentum going over the entire year. What we found throughout that process though, was the easier, less collaborative they got, the harder it was to keep, and the easier they were to let go. We SO enjoyed everyday of our toughest challenges - and this year, having reflected on what worked and what didn't- we've decided to bring back our favorites- push ourselves by doing less longer and keeping each other motivated along the way...


So, for 2012, please join us on our new adventure and wild ride that will be 50 days.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Endless Love.

One of my greatest loves is, and always has been, well designed stationary.
I just love it.
I love the way it looks, feels and smells. YUM.
Get me into an awesome stationary store, like the Paper Source, I could be in there shamelessly oo-deling all day.

Stationary is actually one of the reasons I was so looking forward to this challenge. I find it to be almost meditative, and it inspired me to create and innovate in new and different ways. As silly as it sounds, I am inspired by beautiful stationary. So this challenge? Loving it so far, as it is an excuse to use, and then possibly need, to enjoy even more stationary than I could possible imagine.

In preparation for our wedding I allowed myself to do an abnormal amount of online stationary searching (literally, hours from my life- gone now to online, oo-deling)- but now, to find inspiration for this challenge, I couldn't resist sharing some of my top online stationary picks and why I love them.

The first online sight that I really fell in love with was Expressionary. Expressionary is wonderful for a few reasons- first and foremost, they run pretty great deals, and often. If you buy right- you typically don't need to pay for shipping and can get 25% off your order (score!).

Jon and I also really like this website for the
"Do It Yourself" feature, which when it comes to holiday presents, we've found all too convenient and fun! Check it out. We've especially enjoyed making the memo pads and folding cards with the people you can design for family and friends! (There is also a huge mother's day sale coming up!)

Wedding Paper Divas, which has everything from really beautiful wedding stationary, to just really gorgeous stationary, address levels is a great site if you are looking for incredible stationary, especially anything involving a big event like a wedding. So nice!

I've found my absolute favorite address labels with their parent company Tiny Prints. They have such personality and fun- I especially love the ones that represent your city. Jon and I made a major order of the DC ones and we just love them.


The Green Kangaroo was another site I fell in love with and often browse when I need a bit of meditation or procrastination time. They also have a great do-it-yourself section. These wedding invitations are just my very favorite and actually the map helped inspire part of our "Welcome to D.C" packets for our wedding guests. How amazing are these?!








































Looking forward to many more posts and days ahead- oo-ing and aw-ing at the beauty and love that is: stationary.
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2 comments:

  1. Cindy DeMayoMarch 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM

    This is a really good list of sites! And Tiny Prints is where Georgia Paulding found the whale invitations that we used to Patti's baby shower (check them out under the boy baby shower invites). Adorable!

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  2. UnknownMarch 23, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    Perfect timing, I'm getting ready to order some thank you notes! :)

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