Texts and emails are all well and good, but nothing will ever replace a handwritten note. Call me old fashioned (or oh so retro) but I still make it my mission to thank, congratulate or commiserate with my pals via snail mail. My obsession with stationery (and compulsion for cool fonts) helps facilitate this and I'll happily while away a few hours at Kate's Paperie in New York or perusing the letterpress on Etsy. I'm also a big fan of Smythson in London. Last year I snapped up their fashion notes, with sketches by Giles Deacon, with bold tissue lined envelopes, this year I have been scribbling my sweet nothings on their Love, Peace & Hope cards. While getting a sneak peek at their upcoming Autumn/Winter range the other week, I also spied these gorgeous Alice in Wonderland cards, which I'm now trying to conjure up a good enough reason to buy. I wonder if the Mad Hatter can help me think of one?
I want to sashay out of the kitchen with a platter of freshly baked scones… in five-inch heels and a push-up bra. My lips will be scarlet, my pencil skirts a little snug, yet my bed linen crisply white and my homegrown blooms artfully arranged. Forget the dilemma that faced the females of the 60s – “will I be perfectly prim Jackie Kennedy or lusciously languorous Marilyn Monroe?” – I’m a thoroughly modern woman and I want to have it all! Of course the baking, eyelash fluttering, handwritten correspondence and cocktail drinking has to fit around my day job (Entertainment Editor for GLAMOUR magazine), and my purse (mini breaks before thread counts), oh and my attention span (knitting = no way). But as I already spend every day deciding whether to channel Betty or Joan, sharing recipes and shoe envy with my pals and have written an etiquette guide called L Is For Lady and a self-help tome, How To Be A Sex Goddess, I figure I’ve got this domestic seductress thing in the bag (almost!).
Texts and emails are all well and good, but nothing will ever replace a handwritten note. Call me old fashioned (or oh so retro) but I still make it my mission to thank, congratulate or commiserate with my pals via snail mail. My obsession with stationery (and compulsion for cool fonts) helps facilitate this and I'll happily while away a few hours at Kate's Paperie in New York or perusing the letterpress on Etsy. I'm also a big fan of Smythson in London. Last year I snapped up their fashion notes, with sketches by Giles Deacon, with bold tissue lined envelopes, this year I have been scribbling my sweet nothings on their Love, Peace & Hope cards. While getting a sneak peek at their upcoming Autumn/Winter range the other week, I also spied these gorgeous Alice in Wonderland cards, which I'm now trying to conjure up a good enough reason to buy. I wonder if the Mad Hatter can help me think of one?
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