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Seal and Send Wedding Invitations - a personal project

2013-04-05T15:48:48-05:00

I'm so happy about the collection of Seal and Send Wedding Invitations that my company has created this year. It's funny how it goes with a new product idea. We'd been wanting to create this style of invitation for a while but it was only once it captured the imagination of one of our designers that it actually happened. Despite a few false starts with figuring our postal requirements in Canada and the US, we launched first with three special designs.

Over the last months, we've been adding more and designs. Many of the designs are also available in single panel format, like the Romantic Lace Seal and Send Wedding Invitations.

And what's awesome about this style is that it combines the invitation and reply card into one all in one wedding invitation. There's no mailing envelope, so you save the waste and expense of the envelopes. And the piece is so fun to receive - open it up and the design unfolded panel by panel.

Check out all of the designs of Seal and Send Wedding Invitations here and let me know what you think!

It's Earth Month - 6 things you can do

2013-04-01T07:00:00-05:00

Happy April! This month, we'll be celebrating Earth Day on April 22 and Earth Week April 17-24. To help you celebrate, here are a few fun and simple things to do:

Decorate your desktop with free downloadable Earth Day wallpaper for desktops, iPhones and iPads. I love to switch up my wallpapers every month to keep things fresh.
Get a jump on gardening season by starting your own seedlings indoors. Seedlings today means fresh veggies and flowers in a few months!
Find tips on how to garden in small spaces with this helpful article.
Encourage your friends and family to beautify the environment by planting flowers with these Plantable Earth Day Favors.
Read this great post on easy, no-money ways to celebrate Earth Day.
Make an up-cycled greeting card using seed paper and a pop can.

Share how you're celebrating in the comments below. We love hearing from you!

2 Free Tools to Better Understand Yourself

2013-01-22T16:30:56-06:00

How are those new year's resolutions going? If your situation is less than what you had hoped for back in December, here are two great tools that you can use to get to know yourself better.

TypeCoach Verifier is a free tool to help identify your Myers Briggs Type. The Myers Briggs questionnaire measures preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The original developers of this personality inventory began creating the indicator during World War II to help women who were entering the industrial workforce for the first time to identify the sort of war-time jobs where they would be "most comfortable and effective". It's a useful tool now for anyone looking to understand themselve within a work and family context. I've found it helpful to understand my little quirks, like my need to plan vacations well in advance; turns out I'm just being a good ISFJ!

Another tool to use is the free RHETI sampler for the Enneagram. The Ennegram maps nine different personality types and identifies your Dominant, Stress and Security points, the types that influence a person during stressful or relaxed situations. Each of the nine Enneagram personality profiles has a distinct, well-developed coping strategy for relating to self, others and the environment. Here's an article by Tony Schwartz on how his company uses the Enneagram to help staff see through their blind spots.

Both of the above tools are free, and are worth the small investment of time to take them. Good luck and let me know how it goes.

New Years 2013 Free Printables

2012-12-28T21:08:01-06:00

I've been using Pinterest a lot lately, to save, sort and organize the free printables that I find on the web. There are a lot of great freebies available to celebrate New Years Even 2013, and you can see them all on my free printables page. Here are a few favorites:

New Year's Party Kit from Botanical PaperWorks

New Year's Eve photo booth accessories from The 36th Avenue.

New Year's Eve printable table runner from Susan Brand Graphic Design.

New Year's Resolutions worksheet for kids from Thirtyhandmadedays.com.

Hop on over to Pinterest for these and more being added daily.

Some free Christmas printables

2012-11-12T12:19:37-06:00

From Michaela at Hey Look, here's an easy and fun DIY Advent Calendar project:

Go to DIY Printable Advent Calendar to print out the templates.

From the Botanical PaperWorks blog, here's a new (and free) printable 2013 monthly calendar. I received a pre-release copy back in September and have been using it to plan for the new year. I coil bound it and love it!

Go to Free Printable 2013 Calendar to download and print.

For more great free stuff, I've saved lots of free Christmas printables over on Pinterest and in the Freebies section at Botanical PaperWorks. Check it out!