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Proctor & Gamble Gift Bag

In November, Botanical PaperWorks was lucky enough to participate in a P&G Beauty event - the first ever P&G Beauty Awards honouring excellence in beauty/grooming journalism in Canada. The gift bag that each attendee received was full of goodies including a package of plantable herb Yummy Cards. Our thanks goes to P&G Beauty for including us in the special event!

Let's go shopping!

Thanks to Style At Home for featuring Botanical PaperWorks' plantable holiday cards in the December issue. It's a gorgeous issue chock full of decorating and shopping ideas, just in time for the holidays.

If you missed our video from Monday, click here to watch me and Customer Care Manager Toni talk about our favorite items on the 2009 Green Gift Guide. PLUS, click here for a 20% off coupon to use on ALL items in the Gift Guide between now and Monday...so don't delay!

 

As seen in the National Post, The Ampersand

Thank you to the National Post online - The Ampersand "Wish List: Greet 'em with a green card they can plant" featuring plantable holiday cards from Botanical PaperWorks.

As seen in GardenWise

Our thanks to GardenWise magazine for featuring Botanical PaperWorks' Plantable Holiday Party Favors in their very festive Winter 2009 issue.

Speaking of holiday party favors, my husband and I are hosting a party in December and we're going to order these Plantable Christmas Flat Cards to put at each place setting. I love this favor because when guests plant the tree, they'll grow spruce trees as a lasting memento of the event (each tree is studded with spruce tree seeds).

Hope you have a wonderful Friday!

Press in Best Health magazine

Thank you to the editors of Best Health magazine for this feature in the November/December 2009 issue. Shown below are our Plantable Christmas Cards (red and brown), Plantable Holiday Cards (blue and gray) and Plantable Holiday Gift Tags. 

 

Here's the page with the product feature. And check out on the smoothie recipe on the right - it's simple and yummy and I think I'll give it a try this week.

There are 7 1/2 weeks until Christmas - just enough time to shop now for plantable Christmas Cards and stationery gifts. Enjoy!

71 days to Christmas

I checked the calendar today and counted 71 days until Christmas. Not bad - that leaves plenty of time to organize a gift list, write Christmas cards and get the orders into Amazon and Toys R Us.

Speaking of cards, thank you Spaces magazine for featuring Botanical PaperWorks' plantable seeded Holiday and Christmas cards in the October issue.

Our Christmas/Holiday card collection this year includes these beauties in red and cocoa brown:

 

  

and these lovely ones in grey and ice blue:

 

  
You can buy the cards in a set or in singles so please click here to get started.

What's on your Countdown-To-Christmas list?

Thank you London Free Press

Our thanks to the London Free Press for including Botanical PaperWorks in the August 1, 2009 article called Other Trends. Here's the clip:
 
And it's so true - it's easy to plant a card. Click here for the planting instructions and for photos of growing paper.

As seen in Fast Company

Twelve years ago, when I started Botanical PaperWorks with my mom Mary Reimer, Fast Company magazine was my monthly source of inspiration and motivation. I poured over every page and dreamed about the day that my business would be a going concern. I read about the successful [at the time] dot com companies that were blazing a new trail and wondered how I could emulate their approach to innovation and team building.

Then the dot com bubble burst and Fast Company pared back substantially. Where before the magazine had been big enough for a doorstop, burgeoning with large, glossy ads, now Fast Company was a slim edition. However, each page was gold and I read with excitement as I saw manufacturers now included in the company profiles. I read about companies like Boeing and wondered how I could incorporate their world class approach to procurement and on-time delivery. I enjoyed the reduced ads and felt that I was maturing as a business owner as the editors of Fast Company were also maturing and grappling with the new economy. So while the magazine [and economy] was different after the dot com crash, Fast Company continued to be a source of inspiration for this life-long learner (me!).

So you can only imagine how thrilled I was this morning when I checked my inbox and found an email from friend Dan Overall of the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce congratulating me on being included in the September 2009 issue! Being included in Fast Company is a lifelong dream that I hardly dared to imagine.

I'm sharing the images with you now  - it's page 50 if you have the magazine. It feels like things have come full circle and I'm so very pleased and thankful to the editors of Fast Company for including Botanical PaperWorks in their fine publication.

 

Page 50 of the September issue of Fast Company

As seen in The Toronto Star

Thank you to The Toronto Star for this piece on Botanical PaperWorks' plantable seeded cards this past weekend. Click on the image below to read the entire piece. The photos are wildflowers growing from our seed-infused paper planted in an outside garden.

Thank yous

School is almost out and this yea as an end-of-year thank you, we're giving each of our daughters' teachers sets of personalized thank you cards from our sister company Absorb Creative. I chose these designs:

• Bali in green, a favorite of mine since the collection launched
• Hampton in brown/yellow
• delicate Pixie in pink and grey
• Orchid in striking blue and brown

Father's Day was last weekend and I'd like to thank these publications for recommending Botanical PaperWorks' plantable cards and gifts. Click on the image to read the full article.
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This last news item gives some great publicity to Community Natural Foods, a wonderful store in Calgary with two locations.