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{happy weekend!}

I haven’t shared any photos of Sophie recently, so I thought I’d end the week with a little update on my sweet little girl. She’s 2.5 months now (11 weeks to be exact), smiling up a storm, and interested in everything and everyone. She had a blast meeting new friends and family members over Thanksgiving weekend! I also hinted on twitter earlier this week that we’ve encountered some sleeping issues, so I’m one tired mama these days! Sophie is at the stage where she really wants to be awake for longer stretches but just can’t quite handle it, so we’re trying to find the right balance between awake time and nap time during the day so that we both minimize her meltdowns and can hopefully get her to sleep for longer stretches at night. I think I might do cartwheels the first night we get 6 or more hours out of her! Seriously. Anyway, this weekend we’re hoping to check out Holiday Heap in Baltimore and maybe even visit the National Aquarium (I’ve never been!). But in the meantime…

  

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…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

That’s it for me this week! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

Seasonal Stationery: Hanukkah Cards

I always worry that hanukkah cards will get lost amidst the overwhelming number of christmas and new year’s cards, so this year I created a separate hanukkah round up!  For those of you celebrating the festival of lights, check out the full hanukkah card round up right here – and here’s a little preview of what you’ll find…

2012 Hanukkah Card Round Up via Oh So Beautiful Paper

1. Smock; 2. Hammerpress; 3. Rifle Paper Co. 4. Dear Hancock; 5. Anemone Letterpress; 6. Sycamore Street Press; 7. Snow and Graham

Check out the full hanukkah card round up right here!

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Seasonal Stationery: 2012 Holiday Cards, Part 3

Um, how is Thanksgiving NEXT WEEK?! I swear this time of year always seems to speed by on fast forward, which means the Christmas and New Year’s holidays will be here before we know it (eeks!). So without any further delay, here are a few more cards from the 2012 holiday card round up!

Holiday Card Round Up via Oh So Beautiful Paper (2)

1. Moontree Letterpress (can also be customized); 2. Ink Meets Paper; 3. Night Owl Paper Goods; 4. Fig. 2 Design Studio; 5. Oslo Press; 6. Smock

Holiday Card Round Up via Oh So Beautiful Paper (1)

7. Hello Small World; 8. Paper Lovely; 9. Yellow Owl Workshop; 10. Dude and Chick; 11. My Little Buffalo; 12. Stone and Feather; 13. Happy Cactus

Check out the full holiday card round up right here!

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Seasonal Stationery: 2012 Holiday Cards

Nothing gets me excited for the Christmas season quite like holiday cards (naturally), and this year is no exception. I’ve had so much fun watching stationers release their newest holiday card designs over the last few weeks!  You can check out the full holiday card round up with my favorite cards from each designer right here, and here’s a little sample of some of the best holiday cards from this year…

2012 Holiday Card Round Up via Oh So Beautiful Paper

1. Crane & Co.; 2. Honizukle; 3. Campbell Raw Press; 4. Sugar Paper; 5. Humunuku; 6. Sass + Peril

2012 Holiday Card Round Up via Oh So Beautiful Paper

7. Molly Jaques; 8. Parrott Design Studio; 9. Missive; 10. Mr. Boddington’s Studio; 11. Quill + Fox; 12. Ink + Iron; 13. Rifle Paper Co.

Check out the full holiday card round up right here!

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Molly’s Zoo Theme Holiday Card + Moving Announcement

After moving to a new home and welcoming a second child, Molly from Paisley Quill decided to get super creative with her family’s annual holiday card – combining all three into one package!  Molly embraced the recent chaos, going with a fun zoo theme for the entire package accented with cute plastic zoo animals and lots of fun vintage stamps.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (7)

From Molly:  This year has been rather crazy for us.  We had another baby and purchased a new home that required lots of renovations in a short amount of time.  Needless to say, I fell behind on my correspondence.  So this year, I decided that it was high time I got caught up and sent everything out together.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (6)

In a little blue box, I sent our son’s birth announcement, our moving announcement, and Christmas card all together.  Tied up in a pretty little package and mailed to family and friends with lots of vintage stamps.  My friend Holly from the Paper Nickel gifted me the baby buggy stamp in honor of Callahan.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (2) Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (8)

Since having two kids, our life has been a ZOO!  So I ran with the concept, creating both a birth announcement and moving announcement modeled after an information card from the zoo.  I had a custom stamp made and stamped all of the glassine envelopes with our new family “crest.”  I sealed the moving announcement with the zoo animals inside the envelopes and taped them shut with fabric tape.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (5)

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (9)

Thanks so much Molly!

Photo Credits: Paisley Quill

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