I love these note cards on etsy

I want to apologize to my niece, Emily, for my forgetfulness in writing this post. Let me explain here. My lovely and talented niece, who you may remember as the newlywed, opened an etsy shop a couple of months ago. She sells handmade note cards and paper goods out of her online shop, My Ode To Rain.

I heard about it through one of the many e-mails that my sisters and many of female relatives write back and forth to each other. As soon as Em told us about her shop, I went to it and bought this set of squiggle note cards.

You know how much I love squiggles.




Getting back to the story, I’m apologizing to my niece because as soon as her beautiful cards came in the mail, I wrote her and mentioned that I’d like to write a post on her work. And then time went on, and Aunt Katy forgot.

Until tonight.




The cards I ordered came in a set of 6 with envelopes to match on good quality card stock. Each hand drawn design is different, and with the inside blank, I can use the card for anything I desire.

Ever since she was a young girl, Em (and her sister, Sam) was always prompt at sending her thank you notes after receiving a gift. As she got older, Em began designing her own notes and I always looked forward to seeing what would come in my mailbox.

You can visit her here:

My Ode To Rain

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I invited myself to a cookie exchange after seeing the invitation on my co-worker’s frig at the faculty party on Saturday night. Today at lunch I told my co-worker that I’d seen the invite on her frig and that I was thinking of crashing her friend, Diana’s, cookie party. “I can bring a dozen cookies”, I told her. “It should be fun”.

I haven’t been to a cookie party in 30 years, I believe.

“Uh, Kate”, Christine said, “It’s 10 dozen cookies. Not one dozen”.

Holy shortcake, Batman. I’d better get baking . . . see you tomorrow, my friends.