ahoynative: Collections

There's a fun vintage store at First Friday we always stop in. A few years back I found these Valentines there. They ranged from $1.00 to $2.50, and I planned on giving them out as Valentines, but somehow misplaced them and didn't find them until weeks after Valentines Day. I've had them sitting in a basket for weeks now anticipating giving them away this year. My favorite part is almost every single one has a name/"to" "from" on the back. It's so fun to imagine the little girls and boys going to school excited on Valentines Day to give these to all their friends. Little "Earl" in his suspenders and sweet "Patty" in her saddle shoes. They still have a box full, so I plan on going back to refill my supply. I hope that one day Dakota will want to give some of these to her most special friends!

Maybe I'm a super nerd, but ever since I was a kid I have always adored paper supplies. I remember getting so excited at the end of the summer to go "school supply shopping" and I would always stack my composition notebooks, lined (college ruled) paper, planners, and folders in pretty piles. Truthfully I never used half of the stuff I convinced my mom to buy, but the love of shopping for pretty paper products is still something I very much believe in.

I have a constantly growing collection of stationary and journals. Whenever I go into Target or the bookstore, it's a sure bet I'm going to browse the stationary. There are just so many pretty journals/notebooks/cards/stationary out there that I want to add to my collection (and I usually do!) There is only one problem....I hate to use it. I'm so afraid that once I use it, it will be filled up and I'll never get a do over. So for now, almost all of them (and that isn't even all of them!) sit on shelves throughout the house, looking pretty.

When I was little my grandma sent me a stationary set that had little kittens all over them, just like this happy camper set. It even had little matching stickers + envelopes. Totally 90's and totally awesome! Also, see those adorable sticky notes by the lovely Boy Girl Party? Well Bean gave me those (along with all of the other BGP stationary) 2 Christmases ago...I've only used 3 sticky notes. Someone tell me there is a class I can attend! A Wreck This Pretty Paper class. Help me out!