The Shopping Bag Chronicles: MOMA

03 December 2011

A Card Would Be Nice!

I live my life gorilla glued to an email box. I think at last count I have 10 email addresses that actually get used everyday! I truly get dizzy hopping from one to the other and sometimes I forget which box I am in and why on earth I am there. A very strange life for someone who loves all things paper.

MFA

I know! I know! We need to save our trees (there are wonderful cards on recycled paper by the way...) but I love getting REAL mail...knowing that someone cared enough to take the time to select a card and write me a note of hello, address the envelope, place a pretty stamp on it and send it off.

Art Institute of Chicago

Receiving a card in your postal box is always a treat - romantic and nostalgic in this day of three letter texts. Yes, there are some fun and lovely e-cards available -I am a fan of Ojolie- but can you tie an e-card in a ribbon and keep it for years?? I still have the very first Birthday, Holiday and Valentine cards I ever received. I have cards from so many who are no longer with me but I will always have their notes and their love in an envelope forever, can't get that with an email!

Paper Source

I love Holiday Card shopping and my favorite spots include Museum Shops...Whimsical, Creative, Elegant Letter Press, Artistic and always special.


MFA

Art Institute Chicago, MOMA, MFA

I am crazy for Pop-Up Cards---A surprise in every envelope-all from MOMA and The Art Institute of Chicago

The loveliest way to send a card this time of year is through the many many charitable organizations that offer Holiday Cards with proceeds supporting their cause -Visit Cards that Give for some wonderful greetings that Give Back!

Dana Farber/Jimmy Fund, The Humane Society, Parent's Project Muscular Dystrophy, Pine St. Inn

Project Bread, American Red Cross, Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, New York Public Library, Robin Hood Foundation, The Home for Little Wanderers

Find your favorite Charity/Organization and send a card that is truly from the heart and makes a difference...Love these from Friends of Boston's Homeless drawn by Boston 's own Sidewalk Sam

29 December 2009

A Date for New Year's

V and Shop
I am not a fan of New Year's! Do I need to celebrate that another year of my life has gone by, tossing the 2009 calendars in the trash doesn't help! 365 days of my life into the recycle bin...does that mean I get those days back in another form if I recycle the old calendars?? Just thinking!?

Paper Source

Le Papier Etsy

We do measure our lives by the calendar and sometimes those days fly off much too quickly and we lose the moment.

MOMA

There is a flip side, however, I love a new calendar-clean pages that have yet to be filled with the mundane and ordinary and that hold so much hope and promise for a fresh start--New Year's does give us the chance to start again, get it right this time!

No matter the space you have to keep the date, no matter your passion or style there is a calendar for you and there is no excuse not to be on time. I tend to choose calendars, and I have many, that fill my days with the things I love, am passionate about, and want to look at every day---no boring squares for me

Fred Flare

...I want to be taken to places I adore,

I want to smile

I want to be inspired

I want a quiet moment in the garden in the middle of February

Nantucket Hospital

...and of course

I want style!

Fill those days and months, along with your walls or desk, with some fun, some art, a special locale,lots of laughter... you'll see a dragging day or endless conference call can be lifted by a glance at a great image!

How about a date planner for... you know dates!!

I love shopping for calendars, and I worry in an age of PDAs and Blackberrys that the wall and desk and pocket accessories that help us remember where we are, where we are going and where we should be are going to become dinosaurs--hope not since there are so many fun ways to keep track of 2:00 on Thursday or 10:30 on Monday...