week 50 2025

Ho ho ho! Did you get your holiday cards mailed yet? It's time! And if you run outta time, no worries. We have some great New Year's cards too.

Last week was another blur. I was coming off the very long days and evenings of One of a Kind, I usually take Monday off to recover from the show, but this year, we had three BIG Valentine's Day orders to get out on Monday. And they had to go out Monday, the PO had a cancel date of the following Monday. I felt like I was sleepwalking as I was pricing the cards with their barcodes and bundling them in bubble paper and nestling them into boxes. We finished all three orders and UPS picked them up at 2pm. I was so relieved to see Tony, our driver, walk through our door. Of course, it's UPS' busy season and there was one delay, I was holding my breath and refreshing the tracking daily. I'm happy to say, all three orders were safely delivered by Friday. 

Wednesday I was shop girl. We got in a restock of some Japanese goods. I spent a good amount of the day entering everything in our POS, pricing and restocking the shelves. You all have been keeping up busy this holiday season. Thank you!

Speaking of holidays, it's about time for you all to start wrapping your presents. We still have amazing vintage gift wrap available. Did you know most of our giant rolls of gift wrap came from Marshall Field's? There was a Party Store on the West Side of Chicago that bought Marshall Field's dead stock gift wrap at the end of the season. When the owner's of that store passed, I happened upon their estate sale. It was glorious! I had originally gone to look at the letterpress print shop in the basement. Yeah... the store did custom invitations and had a print shop in the basement and party/stationery store on the first floor. The owners lived on the second and third floors. What a dream sale. At the time I didn't have my store but knew I couldn't pass up all the vintage stationery and gift wrap. I bought as much as I could afford my first visit. They had the sale again the next weekend and I came back and bought more, this time using my credit card. I decided to open an Etsy shop and sell some of the vintage goods. My vintage shop was called If Found, Please Return based off some vintage labels I got at that sale. I sold quite a bit of my vintage goods there. When I opened my storefront in 2019, I shut down the Etsy shop. Now you can see some of the items in person, at our brick and mortar. If want some gorgeous presents under your tree, or just a piece of Chicago retail history, we can help! Come shop our vintage holiday wrap! We also have some more modern wrap too. Along with wrap, we have some really cute gift tags and ribbon.