Mail, Mail, and More Mail!

Does anyone get as much junk mail as I do? And how do all these companies get our addresses anyway? I know companies and organizations can buy address lists, but this is ridiculous.

I spent hours one day last week getting organized with our mail. I shredded, filed, and shredded some more...and paid bills. IT TOOK HOURS!

And now I have a pile again...it's getting on my last nerve.

I recently did get some pieces of good mail though. I received these 3 thank you notes and my order from Crate and Barrel and Pottery Barn arrived.

These are thank you notes from Holly and Jill, both notes are beautifully handmade. Jill came up with a very cute and clever idea. She takes a picture of the gift she receives and makes it the cover of her card (you can click on the picture to make it larger to really get a good look at it.)


Do you remember Jennifer's spectacular 100 cupcake giveaway? Well, while delivering the cupcakes to the lucky 100 recipients, she had them sign a darling handmade card and then she sent it to me as a thank you note. Now it just doesn't get any better than that does it!?! She also included a sign her daughter Abby made which I just loved.



I've been on the lookout for individual serving cups and I found them on sale at Pottery Barn. I'm taking them with me when I leave town today for San Diego. I'm thinking orange sherbert for dessert one night, topped with chocolate sauce and then Dani's Tortellini salad as an appetizer one night. Won't they look great in these individual serving cups...and offered to our friends on a pretty serving tray.


I also ordered from Pottery Barn this cute little asparagus designed tong for our friend Joe. Joe always makes asparagus on the grill for my husband. Joe knows it's my husband's favorite so he goes out of his way to make it for him. PB also had a matching white asparagus plate to go along with the tong but they were sold out, darn it.


And last but not least, I received my cloche that I ordered from Crate and Barrel. I don't know why but I just love the look of these things.


I now have 3...a small, medium and large. Did I need the small one...nope! Did I want it anyways...yep, you betcha! Do you like the look of these glass domes too? If you have one, what do you use them for?