Updates on Greeting Cards and Stationery from Lost Art Design

How many times have you actually sent that thank you note you meant to send? If you’re like me, you probably intend to send far more hand-written notes than you actually do send. In fact, we created the subscription side of Lost Art Stationery out of this frustration of mine. I wanted to send more physical greeting cards than I really had time to send. Our local card shop wasn’t open by the time I would get out of work. It wasn’t convenient to go at lunch. If I did manage to fight traffic and successfully buy a card, then...

  I worked for several years in a small stationery shop—my friends loved it! I was their easy connection to greeting cards for all manner of situations in which one might need a greeting card—birthdays, mother’s day, holidays, etc. When I left the stationery store, my best friend lamented that his easy source for greeting cards was lost. He reasoned that most small stores closed before he got off work. The post office closed before he got off work. It was all such a hassle. When I mentioned that one of the reasons I had left the store was to design...

It's been a little over a year since I left a small stationery store in Chattanooga, Tennessee to start my own line of cards under the name Lost Art Stationery. I worked at that little shop for four years. Nearly every day someone would stop in and say, "Ooohhh...writing notes is such a lost art!" It irked me. Writing notes is not a lost art. We write every day! It's true that today's correspondence happens most often over email or social media, but we do write every day. The more we are inundated with emails, Facebook posts, tweets, and Instagram pics;...