FOODIE DREAM COME TRUE

We were pleasantly surprised to stumble upon our "All Thyme Favorite" card on Bon Appétit's daily blog a few days ago. Ya'll know we love to cook and eat and Bon Appétit is one of my favorite cooking magazines, so it's pretty much exciting as all get out for us. The post is called "6 Fun Greeting Cards for Food-Lovers" so head on over and check it out!

WHAT IS FP?

So we're doing a cool give-away thing right now on our friend Kearsie's blog, Sounds Like Tomatoes. Head on other there, check out her blog, and comment on the give-away post and you'll be entered to win a 5 pack of our French Moderne thank you cards!

Through this give-away someone commented to Kearsie that the Dapper Paper "thyme" card was on the "FP" right now. We and Kearsie both replied with, "what in the world is "FP?". While we were waiting to find out what that meant, we checked out Etsy and saw our card in the hand picked items section on the FP, which we then realized was the "front page". Now we know!

We were really excited to see this, and so glad that one of Kearsie's readers pointed that out. Otherwise we would have had no idea it was there.

NO MORE STORE-BOUGHT CARDS

While most people were rushing to Target, Walmart, or (plug in your store of choice here) to pick that perfect mediocre Valentine's Day card, I was cramming to design one of my own.

My wife loves to cook, and is really, really, really good at it. I'm spoiled. She sits on the couch a few nights a week flipping through her never-ending stacks of cooking magazines, and picks out our menu for lunch and dinner. She's introduced me to flavor profiles and ingredients that I never knew existed!

So as I was sitting there trying to think of a card that really meant something, and was somewhat creative, I came up with this. However, this is not the version I gave her. Due to my lack of knowledge of what most herbs look like, she told me I actually illustrated basil the first time around, not thyme. Oops.

So, we went back to the drawing board, and this time I let her illustrate the thyme. The end product was much better, and we decided to add it to our list of items in our Etsy shop. Hopefully other foodies out there will enjoy this card, and won't have to make that dreaded trip to the store for a not-so-good one.

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