My sister‘s having a baby, no I don‘t mean maybe. Her bump in the front would put Angelina‘s to shame.
I‘m always wondering how best to help out since she lives on the left coast. Short of my mom and I digging all the adorable little Audrey Hepburn-style knitty suits my grandma made outta the attic (and running them through the wash two times to remove the thirty-year-old mildew), I feel like I‘m at a bit of a loss with her so far away.
But then I gratefully discovered www.paperbride.com and www.papermama.com.
Clearly, it‘s a tad late for the bride site, but Paper Mama arrives just in time for the… arrival. Honestly, like sis doesn‘t have enough to worry about with all the rearranging, ordering and dulah visits (and deep breathing), amongst the million other things I probably don‘t even realize she‘s dealing with.
That‘s where Paper Bride and Paper Mama come to the rescue. Both sites have really hip cards for almost any minute function you can envision pertaining to getting married and giving birth, thanking every last person involved down to the caterers, pediatricians, maid of honor, best man, nanny, babysitter, lady part‘s doctor, vendors, bridesmaids, and the endless list goes on (and on). Paper Bride even has other handy accouterments like wedding invites and wrapping paper.
Of course tons of vendors sell wedding and childbirth thank you‘s, but these cards get the top shelf seal of approval with really hip graphics and fresh offbeat topics, like a ‘mom going back to work‘ card (which the media seems obsessed with lately, especially if mom went to Harvard!), my fav, the ‘hot mama‘ and ‘mamalicious‘ cards (my sis definitely gets these), and perhaps the biggest reality check for the new mom, the ‘moms get no sleep‘ card.
Since actually being preggers is the most serious and time-consuming commitment of this whole ordeal, sending out cards is the perfect way for my sis‘ man to help out and give him something useful to do while she‘s doing all the real labor intensive work!
www.paperbride.com
www.papermama.com
THAT‘S THE WAY I-I-I-I-I LIKE IT I-I-I-I
By Amber Roniger
I‘ve got a secret. What is your secret? I forgot my secret. Well! Even as little bumpkins rhyming, we were bragging about our secrets. I remember the first secret I was supposed to keep on the first grade on the playground. I blabbed it in like 5 minutes flat. I don‘t even remember doing it; it‘s like a blanket descended over my mind and then I was suddenly in trouble with the second graders.
Psssttt… sssshhhh…. secret, spill the beans, secret. It‘s like the American national pastime: leaks from the government, leaks from abroad, everybody yacking about everyone else‘s business. We love a good secret, but we also love to spill it. I mean really, why is a secret so damn sexy? Must just be our contrary human nature.
So call me loosey-goosey lips but I don‘t care, you‘re gonna want in on this one. (You know how I ‘aint one to talk, but peep on this…)
I happen to be in on this hush-hush atelier-style sale of KAJ ANI‘s truly spectacular Fall-06 line, taking place in a private residence in the West Village this coming Saturday, May 6th between 1-5pm. This contemporary designer collection, focused on fab fabrics and flattering styles that celebrate women of all shapes, will be on sale at 52 Grove Street, #1A. Ani will have samples of the entire line to try on and pre-order, and will be taking measurements when necessary to ensure the perfect fit. Feel like Coco Chanel in her heyday!
Everything will be sold at stellar wholesale prices ($88 - $290), more than half off of retail (whhhoooo nelly!). The orders will be ready and shipped between August and October. The line is at the same time modern and classic (with a hip twist), with extra attention paid to quality and detail. Ani describes it as “youthful and modern, not young and trendy… the buys you’ll love forever.”
The Kaj Ani line is making its re-appearance after two years on hiatus, so even in NYC, where you spy someone on the train sporting the same boots you bought in Interlochen (curses! how high into the mountains do I have to climb for originality?), this line will be the true new do on the beat. Even hardcore fashion hounds will be agog. The six previous years‘ lines were sold in high-end boutiques and specialty stores like Barney’s, Niemans and Fred Segal, so you can trot down Fifth Ave with your couture flag waving high. When they all get a load‘a that purple number strutting down the street they‘re gonna stop in their tracks (cause you know how they always stop in their tracks).
There‘s just something rather pompous and uppity about thinking you know something that nobody else knows. Oh how I love that feeling! Any way you slice or it dice it, something proprietary is something we want to know. The in, the scoop, the slice, the juice; we just love those secrets, so keep ‘em coming and come on down and scope the new Kaj Ani line and be the first in your hood to sport this new couture find. Sssssshhhhh….
Saturday, May 6th, 1-5pm
52 Grove Street, #1A (just west of Seventh Avenue South)
slfhandmade@gmail.com (for additional information)
(917) 689-3278
