While I was charmed by the romantic florals of Fashion Week, I have no interest in reliving my Laura Ashley years. I’ll leave the pretty prints to my stationery.
Gotta love the high school nostalgia of writing down pop song lyrics for your crush on Valentine’s Day. I might have to rekindle the habit.
Speaking of new year’s resolutions, this year I want to make much more of an effort to send hand-written thank you cards. It is such a treat to get something in the mail that’s not a bill or a catalog, and in the age of email and texts, the familiar sight of a loved one’s handwriting is enough to make my heart swell.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article reporting that twitter fans were giving small letterpress shops a boost in business. Apparently social media has rekindled a desire to engage in old-fashioned paper correspondence. And what’s more, your pen won’t run out of ink after 140 characters.
Gone are the days when most of us had a land line, let alone something with a curly cord attached to the wall. Yet it’s always handy to have a notepad exactly in the place you want to find it at home… even if you’re not scrawling down details about who called, at what time, and did they leave a message.
