A new addition to the top of my "If I Had a Very Rich Boyfriend I Would Ask Him For..." list*:
Lost Crates offers a subscription service in which they send you a monthly parcel of stationery goods!
They have a brief "Personality Quiz" to assess your tastes - which is mercifully short, unlike the SAT-length form you need to fill out for eHarmony** - although there is some potential for errors. The choices for each question are limited, and some of them I can't really tell what they are (i.e. In the food question Is that a hamburger, or a veggie burger? Why isn't there a chicken option?).
Maybe I'm just being silly. Can one really expect web-based business' customer service department to really know what one wants? And yet I like the idea that there may be someone out there putting a box together thinking, "Oh, she'll LOVE this!"
If I had $38 USD per month to spend on it, I would love to receive a package or 12 from this company.
However, I just noticed now that those of us who live outside the USA need not apply. They do not offer International Shipping as yet. (Insert my standard rant about the North American Free Trade Agreement and how it doesn't work when Canadians want to buy something online here.)
Still, if any of you decide to try it, I would love to see photos of the stationery you receive!
I found out about Lost Crates via Notebook Stories. There's a giveaway there, if you'd like to throw your name in!
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*I do not actually keep such a list. (Maybe I should? No. I'm kidding.)
**Yes, I once tried to complete the eHarmony questionnaire, but I gave up less than halfway through out of sheer boredom.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Woo-hoo!
That's 1 post per month now! At least I'm more active here than on LiveJournal.
I wanted to tell you about another lovely giveaway by Notebook Stories. One of Nifty's devotees has sent her a pile of random notebooks and they are really cool!
I'm especially intrigued by the Levenger Circa system that's in the pile there. (They are the chunk of pages in the top photo that appear in layers of white, lavender, green, cream, yellow and blue). I've never used the Circa notebooks, but I love the coloured pages and the idea of a modular system. Have you used Circa before?
A woman after my own heart, Anene (the generous donor of these lovely notebooks) is quoted as saying, "I share your addiction. And if I send you my duplicates…I’ll be able to go out, guilt-free and buy more!"
I need to have lots of friends like this. Maybe I could start a community of notebook nuts* and we can swap and share notebooks/sketchbooks/journals as we go crazy buying all the different styles we see.
*There has to be a much better name than "notebook nuts". I'll work on that.
That's 1 post per month now! At least I'm more active here than on LiveJournal.
I wanted to tell you about another lovely giveaway by Notebook Stories. One of Nifty's devotees has sent her a pile of random notebooks and they are really cool!
I'm especially intrigued by the Levenger Circa system that's in the pile there. (They are the chunk of pages in the top photo that appear in layers of white, lavender, green, cream, yellow and blue). I've never used the Circa notebooks, but I love the coloured pages and the idea of a modular system. Have you used Circa before?
A woman after my own heart, Anene (the generous donor of these lovely notebooks) is quoted as saying, "I share your addiction. And if I send you my duplicates…I’ll be able to go out, guilt-free and buy more!"
I need to have lots of friends like this. Maybe I could start a community of notebook nuts* and we can swap and share notebooks/sketchbooks/journals as we go crazy buying all the different styles we see.
*There has to be a much better name than "notebook nuts". I'll work on that.
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