In Canada, we have a long weekend starting today. Monday is Victoria Day and a national holiday so yay for three days off in a row!
I'll be back on Tuesday with new blog postings, so in the meantime, I wish you a wonderful weekend.
Heidi
I can hardly believe that graduation is right around the corner. From my cousin graduating from med school to our cherished babysitter finishing high school, there's lots to celebrate. Here's our Plantable Eco Graduation Favor, a great way to commemorate the special day and symbolically plant the seeds of knowledge.
Botanical PaperWorks' quote for the graduation season is this from Robert Louis Stevenson:
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
Give us a call for assistance in planning favors and gifts for your special grad!
Happy Monday to you! I hope that you had a wonderful weekend. We celebrated Mother's Day yesterday with my family. It's always fun to get together, especially since the Reimer Family is very good with celebrating. We know how to have a good time and honor our loved ones. And ending the evening with a round of Guitar Hero didn't hurt!
The food was delicious - my favorite fancy sandwiches from Winnipeg iconic restaurant Rae and Jerry's and coconut cupcakes made with a new favorite recipe from Chatelaine. I brought the left-over cupcakes to work today, but I sheepishly admit that I ate one on the way into the office this morning. Nothing like a cupcake to start the day!!
It's prime time for planning Spring Wedding Showers and Summer Weddings. A fresh plantable favor perfectly fits the theme of blooming love and growing families. This combination favor and place card is one of my favorites because
Thanks to clients InCourage for choosing Botanical PaperWorks for this recent project. The back of this piece has some great stuff about the company's values, principles and vision.
My parents recently returned from several weeks in Turkey and did us kids ever benefit from their travels! I wanted to share some pics of the beautiful gifts they brought back because the colors and textures are so lovely.
My sisters-in-law and I each chose a bag. I got the blue one, Toni chose the red one at bottom left and Anne got the red one at top right.
My brother Nathan received this icon. It's quite large - maybe 5x5 inches. My other brother, Ben, got a kilim, a traditional Turkish rug. A really nice one.
My daughters each received a pair of these fancy, shmanshy shoes that they now wear around the house, slipping and sliding. They feel the shoes compliment their pink princess dresses perfectly.
Thanks Mom and Dad!
Thanks to Jono for the feature of Botanical PaperWorks' Plantable Mother's Day cards on CNN this week. If you caught the segment, you can buy the cards here. Be sure to ask for overnight shipping so that the cards arrive before Sunday! Also check out the Think & Write & Grow Journals for a great gift.
My Grandma shared this book with me recently. Published in 1908, this special piece is exactly 100 years old. Called "Women at Home 1908", it is a compilation of stories, recipes and how-to articles for homemakers and ladies of the time. It belonged to my Grandma's mother, my Great-Grandma who I called Nanny growing up. She lived until my early teens so I'm lucky to have many years of memories.
We're also really lucky to have this book. As someone who loves books, it's thrilling to hold a 100-year-old volume, still in great shape, readable and solidly sewn. I don't think that today's Grisham novels will be such great shape a century from now!
The book contains fashion advice, including this spread called "A Fashionable Yachting Gown".
Here are step-by-step instructions on dressmaking.
I especially love the real-life profiles of citizens of the time. The violinist shown at left was described as very accomplished and dedicated to her career.
Getting married this year? Or just curious about wedding trends for this year and beyond? Here are some top trends as reported to us by idobride.com and theweddingreport.com.
With 2008 declared as International Year of the Planet Earth by UNESCO, Botanical PaperWorks is striving to make changes big and small to make an impact on the environment. Some examples: we went paperless with our order-taking system in order to reduce our paper consumption. Another: we've canceled our water delivery and are setting up a drinking water system in-house, so now we don't have water shipped by truck and we don't use the #7 water bottles with BPA that is now banned in Canada. It's small stuff but if everyone does their part, it's going to make a big difference.
Here's a client who's making a difference. They're called Pure Tot and they're making children's garments with organic, fair trade and non-toxic materials. And they've chosen to use tree-free paper embedded with seeds for their hang tags. These plantable hang tags grow wildflowers when planted, so it's a double benefit - the paper is made with 100% post-consumer waste AND the lucky recipient gets a pot of wildflowers!
Pure Tot is part of a bigger network of initiatives and you can read about it in their blog.
I'm excited about more and more companies using plantable hang tags because all those little pieces of packaging add up to a whole lot of garbage. And if we can reduce a portion of it (AND grow flowers instead!) then we'll make a difference to the amount of garbage going into the landfills. And that's a very good thing!
