I have much to write about the above offering, but since I have to do about 8,000 things before 5p.m. today I am going to have to swing by later.  Please tell me you love this gorgeous stamp as much as I loved making it.  This is only one of two hands, the other is all lowercase which I also adore.  I promise to divulge the artist whom I collaborated on this fine specimen. I am also happy that I could show off the custom wood handle stamps, they are perfect for Besotted Brand. The box the stationery stamp comes in has a magnetic closure so a beautiful sleek, natural profile indeed and they are sized to work with an A2-A7 flat perfectly.  Think about all the stationery you can make yourself!  Never ever will you not have a thank you card or a quick hello at the ready.

I am going to be giving away one custom wood handled stationery stamp it will arrive in a signature Besotted Brand wood box. You  will have until next Friday October 7, 2011 to enter and I will announce the winner on October 8th. Just leave a comment, you can enter as many times as you help me spread the word. So comment and then pin this post, tweet it, facebook it, get a friend to join the mailing list and come back and leave a comment, whatever it takes, spread the word! These are also available for pre-order prior to the launch at a special discounted price, but you must sign-up for the newsletter to be in on that;)

P.S.  Thank you to all the amazing visitors from Making it Lovely, I am so happy to have you drop by my little virtual studio.

P.P.S. I would love to see your links to Pins + Tweets so I can stop by and thank you!
 

New York I love you, but the weather has not been pleasant.  Tuesday had to be 100% humidity. If you follow me on Twitter you would know that yesterday when I was running around from meeting to meeting that my t-shirt was soaked through and through and my hair, oh please, my hair looked liked I stuck my finger in a light socket.  Such a bad look. My event though, now that was a huge success, I was surrounded by so many editors from the top tier home magazines that I thought I might faint from being so star struck. Dara and Eugenia from everyone’s beloved Domino (now at Veranda), oh come on, does it get any better than that?  Yes, yes, it does, Margaret Russell the editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest and Michael Boodro the editor-in-chief of Elle Decor (who happens to be one of the nicest individuals ever). The girls from Lonny were at the event (be still my beating heart), Newell the editor-in-chief of House Beautiful. I am serious, little ol’ Miss B. was in the epicenter of the home publishing cognoscenti.  Do these people even have any idea how enamored I am by their books?  I love, love, love perusing through each and every one of their mags planning my future dream home(s) but who doesn’t?  Minus the humidity the night was sublime. BUT, I was equally as excited to come back to the hotel and post another giveaway!  The above is a wood handled stamp, I used this same style stamp for the muslin bags for my pretty parcels.  This is an actual ‘Fig. 1’ from an 18th century natural science plate.  I saw this and knew it was the one.  Believe me I bought a lot of these plates before I settled on the perfect ‘Fig. 1’. It’s tiny, as it should be, I am all about the petite.  Since this photograph was taken I convinced my manufacturer to custom make my wood handle stamps so they are more in line with Besotted Brand, they will have black handles and bleached natural wood at the base, a divine combination.  Most of my hand stamps are set up with lucite bases but I believe a beautiful wood handled stamp does have its place and I think makes a fine functional decorative element for your decor, no?

I am going to be giving one wood handled ‘Fig. 1’ stamp away, it will arrive in a signature Besotted Brand wood box for  safe storage. You  will have until next Wednesday October 5, 2011 to enter and I will announce the winner on October 6th. Just leave a comment, you can enter as many times as you help me spread the word. So comment and then pin this post, tweet it, facebook it, get a friend to join the mailing list and come back and leave a comment, whatever it takes, spread the word! Thank you to everyone that has been helping me spread the word, it is such a delight to see ‘Besotted Brand’ in lights, I can’t tell you enough how thrilled and grateful I am for all the love.  

P.S. Em asked about Souvenir Foto School and I will be doing a class as soon as the shop is launched and the events are over for work. I will make that announcement soon!

I sent out these pretty parcels to some of my favorite bloggers last week (I still have a laundry list more to go, but ahem the budget is a tad constricted right now. In my haste I did send the wrong note + package to the wrong recipient which is such an outrageous blunder, but no one has mentioned it yet, so either they didn’t mind or expect me to be a bit scatter brained.  I still owe the original blogger one. I do plan to sell gift packages like this in the shop, they may not be exactly the same, they may be even better, yes indeed.  I love the idea of easy gifting, anything that takes the angst out of finding the perfect gift is all right in my book. May I point out the notecards in this photograph?  They are the Besotted Brand signature stock and they are so luxuriously thick, the individual on the receiving end of your card will absolutely comment, I haven’t had one person not mention how perfectly thick they are.  For the purposes of using them with the Besotted Brand hand stamps they are also perfectly smooth.  I tried countless cardstocks before I created these notecards, I was like the Goldilocks of paper, nothing was quite right and then I came across this one mill that had stock so gorgeous that I immediately ordered their outrageous minimum orders worth.  I must sell it or else my future children will not be going to college.  Yes, I made a hefty investment thus the budget constraints mentioned up above.  I believe it was worth it, I am a paper-phile and if this stock made my heart sing I am sure it will do the same for others with my same affliction.

I am going to be giving a variation of this pretty parcel away, you will have until next Tuesday, October 4, 2011 to enter and I will announce the winner on October 5th. Just leave a comment, you can enter as many times as you help me spread the word. So comment and then pin this post, tweet it, facebook it, get a friend to join the mailing list and come back and leave a comment, whatever it takes, spread the word so my future children won’t have to work in a fast food joint and live at home when they are adults.  Thank you in advance and I am sure that my future children thank you as well.

So here I am a bit tardy, but happy as ever to drop by and say hello.  I am in NYC and haven’t slept for more than 24 hours, I can freely admit that the bags under my eyes need to be checked-in. On another note, I  have two winner’s for the Besotted Brand launch date contest since I had intended to open 9.10.11, which would have been quite charming and clever indeed, but I had some unexpected blips and have to postpone to 10.11, that works, no?  I do believe I shouldn’t limit prizes to the launch date, so I won’t. Above is a photograph of the Besotted Brand Archive labels, I love, love, love these labels and I hope you do too. They are printed on a lightly (and I mean lightly) textured stock, with a jet black frame, the labels are a soft white and are great for everything from gifts to organizing.  I am going to be giving a couple sets away to one winner, maybe even throw in another little surprise (or two).  I just need you to go out and help me spread the word!  Pin this post, Tweet it, Facebook it etc. Every time you do you can have another opportunity to win, just leave a comment below. I plan on doing giveaways all week.  I will pick the winners randomly and will give you to next Monday to comment, I will announce the winner next Tuesday. And if you haven’t already, please sign up for our mailing list, make sure to give us your birthday (month and day are fine).  This won’t be another annoying email, but an opportunity to be privvy to special offers and freebies that others whom aren’t on the mailing list won’t know about, why?  Because I love you…

I have to admit I have a serious antler obsession that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.  I think it may go hand-in-hand with my log cabin and Pendelton blanket obsession which of course both the antlers + blankets would look fabulous in a log cabin, no?  This photograph was taken in New York the last time I was there and you would be surprised to note that I have a dozen plus other antler captures from this trip.  It seems NYC is filled with antler photo-ops, who knew?  Speaking of New York I will be leaving again on the Sunday red eye, it will be a brief trip–Monday arrival, Wednesday a sad good-bye.  Like last time I will be sure to document it with my I phone via my Twitter feed, sort of like taking you along with me without my neurosis thrown in (okay a little bit). I’m not sure if I will have any down time to break out my ‘real’ cameras but I sure hope I do.  

If you are having some antler lust in your heart, may I suggest these fine shops to satisfy your antler needs?

//faux antlers//