Old School + A Contest

With e-mail, texting, twitter and facebook, does anyone ever write anymore?  I've just received 2 party invitaions by e-mail this week plus a save the date for a wedding.  Don't get me wrong, I love technology- but I remember when I was little, one of the best parts of the day was walking out to the mailbox to see if we had anything "fun" in the mail.  Which is why I love these:

 

We took a few of our canvas art print designs and had them printed on stationery. 

 
 
 

These little cards are perfect for babies, weddings, house warming gifts or just to send to your favorite quilting friend.  They also look really cute framed on a shelf.  They come in a set of 5 (1 of each design) and are available on our Etsy site now. 

If you would like to win a set, leave us a message telling us something that you miss that technology has taken the place of. 

Also, we wish everyone a very happy and safe 4th of July.  It is my absolute favorite holiday!  If you happen to be on your computer Monday, we are participating in a blog tour that starts on the 4th.  The tour is called 4th of July Fireworks.  Here is the schedule:

July 4th - Open Gate - Monique, http://opengatequilts.blogspot.com/
July 5th - Stashmaster -  Lisa - http://stashmaster.typepad.com/
                This & That - Sherri, http://thisandthatpatterns.typepad.com/
July 6th - Sweetwater - Lisa, http://www.sweetwater.typepad.com/
July 7th - Quilter's Window - Denise, http://www.quilterswindow.com/blog/
                 A Quilting Life - Sherri, http://www.aquiltinglife.com/
July 8th - Cupcakes 'n Daisies - Thelma - http://www.cupcakesndaisies.blogspot.com/

See you next week!

 

Comments

[Judy Carter]

Oh, these seem to be the perfect little "extra" Christmas gift for my niece who will be graduating from college soon. These fit perfectly with her desire for urban style and also her love for family and values.
Thanks so much!!

[Jessica B]

I miss mail as well. Although, I do still get excited to see the mail truck come.

[Dale P]

Looks like we all miss the same thing - writing and receiving a letter. Used to look forward to getting the mail and finding something personal. Now all there is are bills and junk mail.

[jackie deguevara]

I miss thank you cards and birthday cards. My grandmother always taught me to send thank you cards after I recieve a gift. So I do, I usually make them, being a scrapbooker and stamper..then send them off and the people are shocked when they recieve a real thank you card! I lvoe that!

[robin]

I miss spending time with my son. He's so busy with his laptop and texting. sigh...

[pjmesser]

I love the cards!
I miss all the same things everyone else has listed- the world is changing FAST

[Jan Richards]

Think I miss getting mail the most...emails are just not the same. I try to send mail to our grandkids even though they only live 65 miles away and we see them often. I send them a skirt if I sew it for them just so they get a package in the mail....a small expense for the excitement a 5 year old girl gets when a small package arrives for her.

[Patty]

I'm with you I miss letter writing and thank you cards by the mail. I'm a teacher and i always send the students who give me gifts thank you cards by mail. The kids get a kick out of it and never fail to thank me for sending them mail.

[Nancyz]

I LOVE your notecards. Definitely going to do my Christmas shopping for my quilting buddies on your etsy site (and maybe some for me too!)

[Melody King]

I miss the voice to voice talking, texting is just to easy for people. It takes away the kids learning to communicate.

[Sarah]

I just cannot get myself to sign up for Facebook. I feel like I have a home phone, cell phone, mail box, e-mail. Sheesh!! If people can't get in touch with me with all of that, there is a problem. If I had a business, it would be a different story. But, as far as friends go, I like things a little more personal.

[Karen]

I think kids today are missing the experience of secretly passing notes in class, with the possibility of having it confiscated by the teacher. Now they just text each other. Poor kids.

[elizabeth]

i miss hearing my kids voice... i just get texts most of the time...

[Mary]

I miss sending and receiving letters.

[Sarah Melville]

So Cute!!! I too miss that people don't send as many hand written letters. I do still send letters because I also look forward to what's in the mailbox. Mostly Thank you cards and invites.
I remember sending letters back and forth when in grade school to my cousin. I still have them. It was so fun having a pen-pal! :)

[Robin H.]

I miss cards and notes. Also phonecalls with friends and family. The most sad thing is seeing parents with their small children, not interacting but texting or talking on their cellphone and missing those special moments. What are these children missing in their development?

[Perry]

I miss receiving letters too. They had a smell about them that you don't get from emails, and they were an actual thing you could hold and keep close by without having to wait for your computer to come on and hunt for them. I have gone back to reading real books from the library. Kindle is not the same, lol.

[Eryn]

I really miss those good old fashioned birthday cards. Since when did wishing someone "Happy Birthday" on Facebook count? It's definitely not the same. Good thing my grandparents don't have a computer... I'd miss my birthday $20 to treat myself to some fabric treats ;o)

[Nancy]

I miss birthday cards in the mail. It is nice to have so many people wish you a happy birthday on Facebook but nothing beats a card you can save and savor.

[Donna Stephens]

I miss telephone conversations with my girlfriens or friends in general. Everyone says leave me a message of facebook or send me an e-mail.

[Jane]

I miss the simplicity of communicating this way. So many others have expressed it also. The happy emotions felt when you held a real card or paper in your hand, knowing that someone was thinking of you when they took the time to write it....that are precious. These cards are just wonderful, your talent seems endless. Thank you!

[Pat S]

Writing and receiving handwritten letters. I still have a couple of cards my mom sent me and I treasure a book she wrote in - Grandmother Remembers. She had Alzheimer's before she died and I wish I'd saved a lot more of what she wrote.

[Donna Wheeler]

Since email, I miss the sound of the voices of the people I love.

[Robin]

My best friend and I were just talking about this (via email, no less)-- we both really miss the acts of writing and receiving letters and using pen and paper to communicate. The first thing I'd do if I won the cards would be to send one to her. :)

[Mary Ann B]

I miss getting together with a friend to catch up on life... instead of knowing what's going on almost every minute of everyone's lives almost immediately due to Facebook and texting. I also do miss handwritten letters and cards! Love your prints and would love these cards! I would frame them and order another set to use!
Happy Fourth of July!

[Lindsi H]

I miss not having a cell phone. You could leave the house and run errands and when you returned home you could check the message machine that ran on a mini cassette tape! Alway being available sometimes is inconvenient and cell phone have made people rude.

[Jessica]

I miss writing letters and sending postcards, or receiving postcards from people on holidays now you get texts and emails. There is nothing to touch and hold, it is not the same as the little thrill you get when you open the letterbox and see a personally addressed envelope!

[Meg in CT]

I miss writing letters. Email just isn't the same. Don't even get me started on texting. Pretty stationery, a pen that writes smooth as butter, taking time out to put your thoughts on paper, just for one person. I really miss that.

[peggy R]

Although I don't do this. I miss going to a restaurant and seeing people enjoying each others company. Instead I see so many people disconnected from each other. Everyone at the table seems to be on their cell phone. Why are the people your with not as important as the ones on the phone.

[Lisa LeBlanc]

Books..lovely hardcover, softcover, hold in my hands books...I love my laptop and the internet but have no interest at...all..in eBooks. Lisa in Texas

[Amanda]

I hasn't completely happened yet, but I don't want to loose our books. E- books are becoming so popular and I can see their appeal, but nothing can replace a good heavy book in your hands!

[mathea]

Lovely cards - I see there's an online shopping expedition about to happen here...
I miss being able to meet up with friends and relations without being told, when asking what's new: "but don't you read my blog/follow me on facebook?"
A real life hug and conversation is so much better than an online "like"!

[Louise]

I miss photos that you had to get developed instead of sitting in a computer file that never quite gets printed.
I also miss a time when everyone wasn't so proccupied with missing a text or a phone call.
As always love your ideas. I'll have to buy those notecards if I don't win them. I am really becoming a Sweetwater Junkie!!!

[Jacque.]

I miss writing letters...and receiving them. I used to correspond with several family members and friends...I would write long, rambling letters, full of details of our days.

[LeAnne]

I miss face to face greetings such as Happy Birthday or I miss you. It's not as fun to get a Happy Bday text message! I also miss hand written letters. When my family moved away in elementary school, one of my friends and I stayed in touch as penpals for years... even into college. Thanks for the giveaway! I just found your site and etsy shop, everything is sooooo wonderful!

[Kathleen Ch.]

the quiet and calm of leaving the house, even to go out into the yard without some electronic device in my hand or pocket or purse. Don't get me wrong - cell phones are handy - but I wish that i could leave home without it , and not feel like the earth might stop spinning because i had left it behind!

of course, without technology - I might never have seen 'sweetwater' wonderfulness!!

[Barb in MI]

I miss seeing people going for a walk without one of them talking on a cell phone. And yes, I do miss people exercising outdoors without earphones. Does anybody still listen to nature sounds - or is it just me? Love real personal mail as well - it so beats any bill...
Happy Fourth!

[Julie]

I have to agree...I miss 'real' mail in the mailbox!

My best friend from high school and I wrote 'books' to each other when I left for college...and I always looked forward to her letters!

Thanks for a fun giveaway!
Julie

[janita]

I miss the old ways of keeping in touch. I use to write pages and pages to my cousin. I lived in Iowa and she lived in Alabama. It was so thrilling to get a letter from her in the mail.My little granddaughter likes to send letters to my sister's little boy. She thinks it is great to get something in the mail and she always wants to write back right away. she gets so excited to think someone would send her something. She loves to go out to the mail box and get the mail. it makes my heart smile. I need to slow down and try to make time for writing again. beautiful cards thanks for achance to win.

[Angela H]

I miss getting the old fashioned kind of mail too.. and what about a good old book to hold and have a good read tucked up on the sofa by the fire.. or even looking up something in an encyclopedia instead of goggling it!!!!!

[Patty D at NC]

I miss the sound a rotary phone mail when it dials the number.

[Kathryn]

I miss the sound of the telephone ringing, hanging clothes out on the line, homemade pie crust, bubble bath that really bubbles, getting a card or letter from a friend or family just because. I still send cards for all occassions. My daughter thinks I'm nuts...I don't care, I love doing it.

[Carol H.]

My daughter is in D.C. visiting and instead of calling us she keeps texting us and sending pics via her phone. Just missing some of that personal contact.

[Karen a/k/a/ The Lazy Quilter]

You can't dial the guy you have a crush on and hang up with caller ID! lol

I was also big on pen pals back in the 70s when I was in elementary school. No one does THAT anymore I'm sure. Write? Longhand? On paper???? What is that!!!

(sigh)

[Lynn]

Love your notecards! And I do miss getting letters or cards in the mail. Thanks for the chance to win!

[Lacey]

I love your stationary idea. There are a lot of things that I miss that technology has taken place of (getting texts instead of hearing a voice on the phone) but the most sad thing to me is seeing books going to nook-books/kindles/ipads. It's sad to think that future generations may never know what it's like to walk into the town library and take home a physical book that you have to actually flip pages to read. . . schools around here are going to that method (to become paperless) and its scary to think kids will never have the experience of learning to write with paper and pencils like we all grew up doing.

[Cheryl]

Hmmm....I miss talking over the back fence or dropping by someone's house for a glass of lemonade and a visit. It seems like more and more communication is not being done in person but virtually.

[Erika]

I miss the old ways too. the great thing is that my mom loves to receive letters and cards in the mail and since she lives far away I try to write her often.
I love the cards all of them are so gorgeous!
Happy 4th of July to you too!

[pam]

One thing I'm afraid of technology taking over is books. I love books, but with all the ebooks around I'm getting nervous.

[Jenny]

just heard our local schools are going to discontinue the teaching of cursive handwriting...oh what a pity. i love handwritten letters...im still in touch with a college friend by snail mail only! so nice. my daughter loves to decorate my envelopes with stickers!

does anyone miss the rotary phone? ha! my dad still uses his!!

your stationary is lovely