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The Regional Assembly of Text

I would love to hang out here.  In addition to being a stationery/gift store, the Regional Assembly of Text has a monthly letter writing club.  !!!  How brilliant.  I love hand-written letters (who doesn't), but other than thank-you notes, it's rare that I actually take the time to sit down and write a letter.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a monthly time set aside to write a few letters and gather with friends? 

And, they have a reading room of rare magazines and self-published books!  I love that they not only sell them, but that they call it a reading room-- implying that they won't be annoyed if you want to spend an hour or two just browsing and hanging out.

Considering the Regional Assembly of Text is located in Vancouver, meaning not available to me (or most of the readers of this blog) (although there are some in Vancouver!  Hi!), I'm inspired to start my own letter-writing club with friends.  Wouldn't that be fun?

[PS - now seems an appropriate time to publicly thank

my awesome brother-in-law, from whom I received a

mix cd in the mail last night!  An old playlist of duets 

he and my sister love that he'd burned for me once before

when I was younger and had since lost.]

[Regional Assembly of Text website]

Necessities >> Letterhead

 This is awesome.  Just discovered a sister blog to Letters of Note (check it out if you don't know it-- it publishes scans of original historically significant letters) called Letterheady, which publishes the letterhead of famous figures and companies.  Could browse their archives for... a while.

(Stephen King)

LustList >> Calling Cards

 

   

 

 

We've taken an epic amount of time designing our company's business cards, and I've been thinking in the mean time I really would like a personal calling card.  I l-o-v-e and want one of the ones from Kate Spade through Crane, above, but I've come across lots of other cool styles as well...

 

For the Modernist, from Mandate Press

In fact, part of our problem is that we don't want our business card to too strongly reflect one particular style, since we design in many styles, so maybe we just shouldn't have company cards, and instead all just have personal cards that have our company email addresses?

Above and below, from Brooklyn Social Cards, here.  The ones above would also be good for a Modernist, and I think the one below might rival the Kate Spades for my personal fave.

There's something wonderfully old-fashioned about the idea of having a calling card.  As if it is essential that you keep them handy because so many people you meet simply must see you again.  Way classier to hand over a calling card that have them enter your cell number in their phone, no?

Anna, from Rifle Paper Co., will create a cute little custom likeness of you for your calling card. 

Another modern option, from Etsy seller ReadyGo, here

A crafty one, for a crafty person (?), sewn (!) on to thick craft paper.  Also from ReadyGo

 

Don't love the font on this one, but do love the pattern!  And you can change the font.  And I bet you can get the chevron in the green she used on a notecard below, which I would prefer.  In fact I'd do font and color like the card below.  From Etsy seller Pixel Impress.