30% Off PicMe Notes

PicMe Prints is offering 30% off their folded notes and flat correspondence cards through August 23rd.  They have great basic stationery for both adults and children.  In addition to stationery they also create fabulous birth announcements with digitally printed photos. 

Hayden Avery Ring Dish

I am super excited to present a Hayden Avery exclusive -
a hand painted (by Ann Marie Murray) ring dish in the Hayden Avery signature blue!  I ordered these back in January and am thrilled to have them (obviously it's time consuming to hand paint 20 ring dishes by hand).

I've blogged about Ann Marie Murray and her hand painted items before (Here and Here).  We sell so many of her ring dishes and I know that there is another store here in Austin that does too.  So I asked Ann Marie if she could make a ring dish in the Hayden Avery blue and she was so sweet to say yes. If you know anyone who's recently engaged or just needs a sussy - this is the perfect gift. 

P.S. - ended up closing the store early on Thursday (as it got up to 90 degrees in the store).  So Friday I was playing catch-up.  Good news is our new compressor works very well!
Hope you all are having a good start to your week.

NEW AC

You know how in all of my posts recently I've discussed being lazy and hot...I am getting a new AC unit/compressor while I type this.  However, I decided to take a bad photo of my thermostat so you could what I am complaining about.   If you can actually see the picture you will notice it is 11 a.m. when I took the picture and although the air is set for 72 degrees it is actually 83 degrees in the store!?!  I need to ask these workmen how long they think it will take to cool down - because I may just need to close the store for the afternoon (with high temperatures today being 105).  This isn't pleasant for anyone.  Does this explain any of my laziness and lack of creativity?  Hope you all have a cooler day than me!

Advertising on Style Me Pretty

I would love to tell you all that the reason I have not been good at blogging recently is because I've been insanely busy.  The truth is I've been hot and lazy.  The store AC unit has not been cooperating with the 105 +/- degree temperatures - so it's been averaging about 80 degrees in the store in the late afternoons.  When sitting indoors at 80 degrees all productivity comes to a stand still (at least for me).  They (the landlord) is replacing the unit in the next day or two - yippee!!!  The true test will be if I am any more productive once the store is cool...

This morning I had a fun project though!  I'm going to be an advertiser on Style Me Pretty Texas and so I worked on an ad.  I came up with the 3 above options and let the staff at Style Me Pretty select the one that they thought would be the best.  It was super fun and a little challenging to design something so small that got the point across and made an impact.

Click here to find out which one they selected.

Cute New Calendars

Dabney Lee has some new designs for their desk calendars that I am loving.  I'd previously done a post back in November show casing their desk calendar (HERE). In addition to the new desk calendar designs, Dabney Lee also just updated their albums.
I keep adding to my list of "I want"...

Dauphine Press August Sale

One of our lovely letterpress companies, Dauphine Press, is offering 20% off their wedding invitations in the month of August.  They recently started incorporating colored edgings and foil stamping to their already fabulously designed invitations. 

Love a Chevron Liner

One of our customers just ordered this stationery from the new Crane & Co. stationery album.  I love the new chevron envelope liner.  It still has the classic Crane & Co. look, but with a more modern feel.  I hope she loves her stationery as much as I do. 

On a completely different topic - I noticed on Sunday that I've posted the Prentiss Douthit Flask invitation before (in October 2010).  Sorry to cheat you all of seeing somthing new.  Clearly there is some sort of deep emotional tie with
Fridays and Flasks for me...