By Jackie Hernandez •
February 25, 2009
I loved this post on upcycling greeting cards and it got me thinking about my stash of notecards that are out of style. In this economy, instead of buying new greeting cards I decided to make my own. I need a beautiful thank you card to send to the hostess of a dinner party, but all I have is a stack of blah thank you cards. They were purchased originally years ago to send as a follow up thank you after corporate interviews, therefore they are very corporate.
I decided to spruce up a few of the cards giving them a handmade touch with a scrap of fabric, bias tape, stamps, and a sewing machine. It took less than 10 minutes! I will probably never buy a new card again. If I ever run out of blank notecards to transform, I can make my own with recycled card stock.
By Jennifer Lance •
January 4, 2009
One of my favorite parts of elementary school was lunchtime. I always looked forward to my sack lunch. My friends and I would compare our goodies and trade, as well as feel sorry the kids stuck with an overcooked, bland, awful school lunches. Of course, I didn’t have a cool organic lunch tote, but I had one of those retro metal boxes, I think it was Scooby Doo. Families today have more choices then we did in the Seventies, especially when it comes to eco-friendly lunches.
Print*Pattern*Paper offers many unique eco-friendly products from recycled stationary to totes. I especially like the Lunch Pack. The Lunch Pack comes with a darling organic cotton sac, a matching organic cotton napkin, a bamboo plate, and bamboo utensils. The bamboo utensils are really cool, as I have never seen them before, but the spoon is rather shallow causing my four-year-old son to spill lots of yogurt with it. The whole set makes a nice presentation, and for endurance sake, the bamboo plate and utensils may be better suited for dramatic food play. The organic napkin and lunch sac are very hardy though.
By Wenona Napolitano •
October 14, 2008
Smock is a brand new stationery and invitation line designed by Amy Graham Stigler (founder of Snow & Graham) and sustainably letter-pressed on bamboo paper.
Smock is the first print shop in the U.S. to offer printing on a luxurious and sustainable bamboo paper, which is made just for them at a historic European paper mill.
I loved this post on upcycling greeting cards and it got me thinking about my stash of notecards that are out of style. In this economy, instead of buying new greeting cards I decided to make my own. I need a beautiful thank you card to send to the hostess of a dinner party, but all I have is a stack of blah thank you cards. They were purchased originally years ago to send as a follow up thank you after corporate interviews, therefore they are very corporate. 
