Just In! Whitney English Designer File Folders

One of my goals at the National Stationery Show this year was to come home with a bigger selection of designer file folders. I loved these brand new designs by Whitney English and have been anxiously awaiting for them to arrive so I could offer them to my customers. They come in packages of 9 and have 6 designs to choose from. They are even cuter than what I remembered!

Summer Chores

I know a lot of the country has been out of school for awhile now, but here in Newport Beach, California, we are finishing up this week. My son graduated from Junior High today who is pictured here with his sister who is now officially a senior in high school. Do you ever feel the years are just flying by?

While I want them to have a fun and enjoyable summer, I also plan on setting some rules and expecting more from them as far as chores. When I saw these chores charts at the National Stationery Show in NY, I jumped on them because they will benefit me personally.

There is space for up to 5 children and 5 chores per day. There are 50 weeks of tear off sheets and a handy magnet on the back if you want to post it on the fridge. They sell for $15.99.

New Item at Charming Cards- Takeout Menu Organizer

With one more week of school left for my 3 children I am looking ahead to getting organized this summer. During the summers I try to catch up on my photo albums and scrapbooks, clean out some junk drawers, and make my kids go through their closets and drawers to donate items they won't wear anymore. At the stationery show this year I selected quite a few products dealing with planning and organizing. The Takout Menu Organizer by Knock Knock is a handy new product to help you organize your takeout menus for those days you just don't feel like cooking. It has handy pouches to store restaurant menus, an ordering pad, tip chart, tabbed dividers to organize your menus and a place to log all those phone numbers and keep track of what you like. At $20 I am thinking ahead that this will make a great holiday gift exchange gift.

New Products to Organize Mom- momAgenda Dayplanners now available!

I am excited to post my first new product I found at the National Stationery Show last week. It is the momAgenda dayplanner geared towards busy moms who want to better organize their families and schedules. I have had my eye on this product for awhile now and feel confident my customers will love it. Along with calendar and scheduling features for mom and up to 4 kids, it includes a favorite websites section, space for notes on books, movies, fashion, and music, vacation and party planning pages. The momEssentials pamphlet (can be removed to transfer to future versions) comes with space not just for addresses, but also for adults' and kids' medical information, birthdays, websites, passwords, and more. It takes the typical corporate (boring) dayplanner and gears it towards busy moms. It is sylishly bound and comes in pink, brown, and lime. It runs from August 2008-December 2009, geared towards the typical school year.