yellow owl workshop.
Do you like rubber stamps? A while back I had this thing where I kept saying I would never get in to the whole rubber stamping hobby. I didn’t need to spend more money on crafty things and I just know myself. Once I find a new love, I get obsessed. This is why I try not to become too much of a collector of things. If I start, I’ll have to have it all. Can you relate? Anyway, of course it didn’t last and because I had taken up paper crafts and scrapbooking, naturally the stamps crept their way to my craft supply drawers.
But before leaving Hawaii to move to San Francisco, I had to take a good look at what I had and purged a lot of things. I knew that I wanted to donate items to a place that could really use what I had accumulated. I mean, I had spent money on these things and they were pretty new and really cute. I ended up gifting loads of paper, stamps, inks, pens, pencils, and even shelving units to a wonderful non-profit organization called Keiki Cards. Volunteers around the world would create handmade greeting cards and send them to the Keiki Cards staff who would write special messages in them to children who had life-threatening illnesses. They would add little fun things in the cards as well. What they were doing was really amazing and I am sad to learn that they have since closed due to lack of funding. I currently don’t have a large rubber stamp collection {maybe just a couple things for when I make gifts}. But each time I see something new that San Francisco husband and wife team Christine Schmidt and Evan Gross of Yellow Owl Workshop puts out, it makes me think that I’ll happily start the obsession all over again.
sets are $11.50 each
sorry if I took a little detour with this post. I really did want to talk about Keiki Cards. They were great.
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i love the hand-lettering and little pouches! modern craft stuff like these are really exciting b/c it shows people that craft supplies aren’t the “same old, same old” stuff (does that make sense? well it does in my head!).
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i love this stuff :) Just like jen said is not that same old boring traditional stuff, i love the quirky illustration style :)