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In response to a letter from a mother anxious to have her daughter write thank you cards - but who was reluctant to get her personalised stationery - Annalisa Barbieri in the Guardian wrote,
"I think you're wrong in not letting your daughter have personalised stationery. It doesn't have to have her name and address on if you feel she'll be wallpapering the local phone box with it. And remember, good stationery can make you want to write to people; I was a prolific thank-you letter writer because I always had lovely paper to write on."
Who are we to argue? For this reason have designed unique children's correspondence cards and thank you cards, featuring a range of 14 CLD motifs, available in a variety of ink colours and typestyles.
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A few questions about Christmas cards
Calling all customer survey enthusiasts: do you have a few moments with which to share your thoughts on Christmas cards? Why you like receiving them (assuming you do)? Why you send them? How many are you planning to send this year? Participants will have a chance to win a £50 CLD Stationery
Click here to take the CLD Christmas card survey. Thank you for your time and opinions. And a sample of our Christmas card products can be found here.
Christmas Card Chronicles
CLD customers contribute to the 750 million Christmas cards delivered in the UK annually (note, Royal Mail advises cards to be sent by December 21st to reach their destination by Christmas. Perhaps we should pop them in the post a few days earlier this year).
"The first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London, 1843, and featured an illustration by John Callcott Horsley.
The picture, of a family with a small child drinking wine together, proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier. Two batches totaling 2050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each."
Source: Wikipedia
A resurgence in thank you cards?
We may be biased around here, but we were delighted to have the virtues of personal letter writing described in a recent Daily Mail article (28 December 2008).
I know now that my parents were absolutely right to insist on this small but meaningful courtesy.
Now a present giver and hostess in my own right, I still harbour a grudge against the bride who didn’t take the time to write to thank me for the wedding present I took the trouble to pick out.
Equally, I treasure the beautifully worded missives from dinner guests, house guests and friends who not only appreciated my efforts, but let me know that they had.
It would be all too easy to think that with the advent of countless more contemporary methods of communicating, the art of letter-writing was about to be consigned to a bygone era.
However, those in the know insist that, despite the encroachment of text messaging and email, letter-writing is enjoying a renaissance.