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Rain, rain… stay away!

Friday, January 29th, 2010

enc_monkey_textThe rain has finally stopped, I think. The rain started last week and it really rained. It wasn’t a San Diego rain, which is mist, that puts all the drivers around here in an absolute twitter. It was a real mid-western rain.

I would walk around my house and look at the ceilings, thinking that for sure, water must be dripping in. Luckily, we didn’t have any water damage inside or out. My flowers and trees are lush and green and things are smiling a little bit more now that the sun is shining.

When I walked on the beach yesterday, there was a pelican sitting on the beach looking at me. He was obviously sick or hurt and when I asked the lifeguard he told me that you’ll see a lot on the beach right now because, get this… they are tired. This guy was tired from the rains. I really think that he might have been sick (and I know the wildlife protection agency had been called for him) but I’d rather think of him as tired.http://sites.google.com/site/whalewatchingsandiego/_/rsrc/1221607042837/Home/Sunset%20Pelican.jpg

Anyway, we are all ringing ourselves out and returning to normal paradise living.

Our monkey is staying sheltered from the rain under his little red umbrella. One of my personal favorite designs, enjoy the monkey with the umbrella or see the many new monkeys we now offer!

Tradition

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Torrey Pines Christian Church by wendyness.Tradition means bringing something from the past into the present.  It can mean a holiday tradition or something that is passed along from one generation to the next.

I was married on Wednesday, for the third time. I can hear you all gasping and wondering how I might have found the time to marry three times. Really, my life is quite simple and I do take the vows of marriage very seriously.  This is why I married my husband, one man, three separate times.

We were married, the first time, twenty years ago in a church in Upstate New York.  In our early twenties, we were both so nervous that I’m not sure I could tell you exactly what I repeated in front of a hundred family and friends to proclaim my love for my husband.  I stood and held both hands of his hands and repeated what was read to me.  I remember walking on the beach, the next day, hundreds of miles away from the silk and tulle and thinking now that it’s all over, I wish I could have the wedding again and really enjoy it… remember it.

So ten years later, we renewed our vows on the beaches of the Outer Banks.  We stood with our toes in the sand together with our two year old daughter, Lilly.  It was totally different than the first time we said our vows, yet we were making a commitment, the same commitment again. As I stood on the beach, I held the hand of Steve, my daughter, and the leash of my labrador, Rex.

Wednesday, the evening of our 20th anniversary, he surprised me and took me to a church here in La Jolla.  We stood together, again with Lilly, and promised to love and cherish one another for the rest of our lives. Standing at the alter of the little chapel, I held Steve and Lilly’s hands and a fist full of pink gerber daisies.

We think of weddings as the tradition, but I think it is marriage that is a tradition. Marriage is a tradition that should be brought from past to present to remind and reinforce the bond between two people.  To make the promise of love and commitment to one another was memorable, but to see my 12 year old daughter taking it all in… was a gift.

Create traditions within your own families that include your children.  They will take those traditions and make them memories which will last long beyond your lifetime.

enc_weddingcake_textWe only had wedding cake at our first wedding, but it seems like the best design to tie to this blog post.

I do love to use these gift enclosure cards when sending a gift to a bride-to-be. They are colorful without being over the top. This design makes a great stationery gift for a bride also. I’ve sent a stationery set, along with an engraved letter opener, for a memorable gift for the bride and groom.

15 Years! Where has the time gone?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Fifteen years ago, I was getting ready to go to my first National Stationery Show in New York. 

I wasn’t going as Letters from Lilly (yet) and I wasn’t even going as a retailer (yet). I was going as just me.  I was going as someone who loved stationery and wanted to begin a retail business and needed the necessary tools to do it. 

Soon after, I started my own retail business offering all kinds of beautiful papers to my customers.  Each year I would return to the National Stationery Show to find more, new, and different products that would entice my customers in the months ahead. This is a photo from my retail space.

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I never would have predicted that my first customer, in 1995, would take the reins ten years later.  This enabled me to continue my career from retailer to wholesaler.

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Today we have grown to have over 1,700 products that are sold worldwide.  We focus our marketing efforts differently now and althought we no longer display at the National Stationery Show, it’s a show to see.

I hope I will see many of you there as I celebrate 15 years of my career in the stationery industry.

enc_logofairy_textHere is our well known logo fairy, the design that introduced Letters from Lilly years back and continues to represent the announcement of new designs, products and stationery items on the horizon.

Enclosure cards make great hostess gifts and of course come with our signature, lined envelopes.

Darling Dolls and Bountiful Boys

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

I’m always looking for something funny to give friends to pass the time when they are awaiting the new love of their life.  These paper dolls are sure to get a giggle from the gals at a baby shower and might even help make bedrest a little entertaining.

But once that little bundle of joy arrives, there will be no time for paper dolls.  Reality arrives without warning and all the sudden we wonder ‘what exactly did we DO all day’ without this little being demanding every second of our waking AND sleeping moments.

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Make your announcement with style using our maryjanes for a girl or red wagon for a boy.  Perhaps you are lucky enough to get T-W-O or … hold your breath… T-H-R-E-E!  Whatever the case, Letters from Lilly has the announcement and stationery to fit your growing family. Now’s probably not the right time to mention that you’ll need to write thank you notes for all those gifts…

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When our Feathered Friends need us most

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

February is when our little, feathered friends need us most.  Don’t forget to keep an eye on your feeder.  Birds remember your feeder, they come back to it, and depend on you for their food while their seeds are beneath the snow and ice.  birdhouse2If you don’t have a feeder, get one easily online and reward yourself when you look out your office window. If I were ordering, I like this birdhouse, pretty to look at all year. Birdwatching is exploding as a sport.  My favorite are the hummingbirds that flitter around my yard all year long. Did you know they flap their wings 55 times a second!

Our birdhouse is more simple and fun to use even during the winter months.  Just like all our designs, you can get it on all 15 of our products.enc_birdhouse_text 

Birdhouse shown here on our gift enclosure card.

New Valentine’s Day Design

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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We are very excited to start 2009 with a Blog for you.  This is a space we will use to share our designs and products in a way that will expand your thinking. We’ll share fun facts and tasty tidbits about communicating and about things you might never have known without us sharing.

Introducing our new HEART design, just in time for Valentine’s Day.  Did you know…according to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today.

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