In business, we have very specific words we use to identify what we want to have happen, both near term and in the future. We have vision, mission and goal statements. We have metrics by which we measure the outcome of the latter. Sometimes we have bubbles on a white board… floating, just because. It [...]

Most everybody has a “go-to gift”. You know, the one when you cannot procrastinate one more minute. I have a few different ones in my quiver, but I am always looking to expand my default wine, flowers, potted plant and cocktail napkin habit. Granted, I have a warehouse close at hand, but I just gave [...]

It’s not a secret around our office that I’m a big fan of Martha Stewart and her omni conglomerate. So when Darcy Miller, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine and Amy Wilkins, Senior Vice President and Publisher, walked into our booth at the Stationery Show yesterday, I was just a [...]

I am a self proclaimed business book junkie. I can tell because Amazon is running out of suggestions for me, although I confess here and out loud that I haven’t read every book in my collection (and there are more stashed just about everywhere). Then there are the business blogs… Yes, we must charge ourselves, [...]

For the record, I am not a designer. In fact, I am the only non-designer partner at Envelopments. Yet here I am, introducing the most “technically” designed of our new offerings. Conceptually, favor containers have been around for a long time, housing a small gesture of gentility and gratitude. But when I started seeing these [...]

Some of you may have seen these original graduation announcements recently posted on the Oh So Beautiful Paper blog. Do we love to “show off”? Yes we do! Our design department is a little crazy and overloaded right now, but they busted these out in a day while they were already burning the midnight oil [...]

I got married during the “Wedding Dark Ages”. Imagine…no wedding reality shows to help me pick out a dress, encourage me to lose those last ten pounds or find the perfect destination. There was no Internet to facilitate endless searches for great photographic poses, color inspirations or to find countless vendors to print my invitations [...]

Imagine that you have just crossed over into the twilight zone; you’re standing in the middle of a big blank white sheet of paper. You need to tell everyone something exceedingly special about your upcoming event…but when you go to shout it out to the world…nothing appears but the echo of bland and colorless…nobody listens… [...]

I have a new found admiration for event designers.  At the top of my list is Heather Balliet of Amorology in San Diego, CA.  From a few little snippets, she creates lushly colored, bride and groom centered events, wildly imagined. I caught up with her and Ramey Ellsworth, an Envelopments Dealer/Designer, recently to ask the [...]

Weekends are always crazy busy… but if you can make the time, here are a few enlightening places to land …  Have a happy, safe and fun one… Utterly Engaged - New issue just out, this e-zine shines. The True Cost of an Average Wedding via Bride Pop – Need we say more. A Real Momental [...]