Retail Love: A Trio

Took a few days off from my Retail Love for cake decorating courses at my new favorite spot to teach!  Crazy busy weekend filled with cakes and cake-loving students!

This week I'm highlighting 3 more online companies that I am liking quite a bit.  First up is a great source for eco-friendly wedding and party favors-- Little Things Wedding Favors. Kind of amazing how many eco-friendly options are available. 

Celebrate at a wedding, bring home a garden!  These favors are sweet.  I'd love to start a wildflower garden at my house; maybe these seed packets are exactly what I need for my next party.


Eco-Friendly Hearts and Lines - Personalized Wedding Favor Seeds
from: Little Things Favors

I love it when party favors that are actually useful.  I would seriously use these:


Natural Bamboo Eco-Friendly Coaster Favors
from: Little Things Favors

These are the cutest things--recycled wood mod clipboards!


Eco-friendly Mod Micro Clipboards (18 Designs)
from: Little Things Favors

You can get to Little Things Favors from Sweetest Whimsy's affiliate link:


Ever visit a site that just blows your mind because there are SO MANY options available?  If you're shopping for personalized invitations or stationery, this site will do that for you, and in a totally good way!   At Urbanity, what you see is just the starting point for what YOU will ultimately create.  You choose a general design or theme and then customize colors, layout, wording, fonts, etc.  I could literally spend all day at Urbanity designing MY ideal invitation.

So you might start out with this invitation theme:

Candy Factory
from: Urbanity

. . . then choose from over 60 color choices to change the background and main design up a bit, jazz up the font by selecting from 16 different ones, finalize your design options and then an actual designer--a real human being-- will send you a proof for you to look over and approve!

You can get to Urbanity from Sweetest Whimsy's new affiliate link and start creating your favorite stationery or invitation design right now!



Have you heard of Big Dot of Happiness?  Everything about this site just makes me happy!  I love browsing all of their themes and ideas.  This is a ginormous site that offers everything for baby showers, birthdays and weddings.  Even their logo makes me smile.

Visit Sweetest Whimsy's new affiliate link to Big Dot of Happiness!

What do I love at this site?  Have you seen these Skullicious personalized cookies?  They have great detail on them, which I can absolutely appreciate as I hate decorating cookies! 

Skullicious™ - Girl Skull - Personalized Birthday Party Cookies
from: Big Dot of Happiness

How about a Candy Bouquet?!  You can set up various sizes of these cool candy stands for a very cool candy buffet party.

Zebra - Candy Bouquet with Frooties - Birthday Party Centerpieces
from: Big Dot of Happiness

So these are verrrrry cool party items--cupcake wrappers!  In many, many designs, plus matching toppers that can be personalized for your big event.  I will DEFINITELY be ordering these!

Trendy Flower - Birthday Party Cupcake Wrappers
from: Big Dot of Happiness

Retail Love #4: A Gift Personalized

Receiving a gift that's personalized is always a teensy bit more special than other gifts. Especially when your given name is out of the ordinary. Like my two kids, for example. Every year during our summer vacation we haunt souvenir shops for the personalized state license plates with their names on them, "just in case" they've finally added them to the list. Our searches are always in vain.

Standard souvenir shop merchandise always disappoints when you have an unusual name.

So it's always nice to be able to order something personalized for a friend with an uncommon name, one of the many reasons I enjoy selling personalized paper and gifts!  Sweetest Whimsy has partnered as an affiliate with a company that offers a really wide array of gifts that you put a name onto-- A Gift Personalized.  They offer something for everyone, from babies to pets, holiday to holiday.  I love the range of products available. 

Want a peek at what's in my shopping basket at A Gift Personalized?

Personalized Kids Door Sign

from: A Gift Personalized

Now this may not seem like a big deal to some, but when you're the only girl in your entire school with a certain name (my kid's name is NOT Natalie!), it's nice to have something like this girly-girl sign on your bedroom door with YOUR name on it! 

Architectural Name Frame

from: A Gift Personalized

How much do I love this architectural name frame?!  It's my favorite item on their entire site! 

Personalized Felicity Chic Circles Pillow Case

from: A Gift Personalized

These are not only pretty and chic, but absolutely useful for my girls' summer camp packing list.  You can also get them personalized with names as well as monograms.

Ready to fill your shopping cart?  I thought so.  Check out their stuff through Sweetest Whimsy's affiliate link:

Retail Love #3: Something Different

Sweetest Whimsy is now also an affiliate for Luna Bazaar!  Luna Bazaar offers GORGEOUS and truly unique decor and gifts for weddings and parties.  Perhaps you've seen their stuff in Martha Stewart Weddings or Amy Atlas's blog?

What I love about Luna Bazaar is how different and colorful their selection is! 

Wouldn't this be a memorable table decoration as well as party favor?

 
Silver Mercury Glass Vase (cup design)

from: Luna Bazaar

They're really known for their paper lanterns.  Lanterns in all colors and sizes, literally!  I love this one:

Harmony Design White 36 Inch Paper Star Lantern

from: Luna Bazaar

But I think this is definitely my favorite!  It's a place card holder that your guests can take home and use as a photo holder.  They come in several different designs, with beautifully bejeweled detail.

Place Card Holder (bejeweled dusky rose and blue butterfly)

from: Luna Bazaar

You can visit Luna Bazaar's website through Sweetest Whimsy's affiliate link:

Retail Love #2

I've enjoyed this particular website for a while now, so I am thrilled to bits that Sweetest Whimsy is an affiliate of Beau-Coup!  Beau-Coup has a little bit of everything--wedding, party and baby shower favors, gifts and supplies.  Seriously, they have everything, and I love "getting lost" on their site! 

 If you're planning ANY kind of party at all, whatever theme, you're probably going to find what you want here.  Here's what I've been loving this week, mostly for my daughter's upcoming birthday party:

Mini Classic Gumball Machines

from: Beau-coup.com

Cupcake Towel Favor

from: Beau-coup.com

Custom Color Fortune Cookie

from: Beau-coup.com

If you're in the buying mood right now, please support Sweetest Whimsy Retail Love and order through my affiliate link:

Even better, Beau-Coup has a sweet deal for you this week: FREE SHIPPING on orders of $25 or more!   Just use the code WILDTHING at checkout, through May 3.

Artistic Affiliations: Retail Love #1

I am thrilled that Sweetest Whimsy has recently become an affiliate for several companies that offer products that I ADORE!  Starting today, I will feature these companies and some of my favorite things from their websites in my RETAIL LOVE.

It's no secret that I've had a love affair with paper practically my whole life. It was pure serendipity that led me to start offering paper in addition to my custom cakes in 2005.  But I absolutely love anything that has to do with the art and craft of paper.

So when I stumbled upon Minted's website, I instantly loved all their designs.  Unlike other stationery companies, Minted is an online global community of designers, and you can even become one of them!  The designs are fresh and beautiful and most of all, unique.  In addition to cards, stationery and invitations, Minted also now offers art prints.

My kids' birthdays are in the spring, so I've been shopping around for *the* birthday invitation!  Here are some current faves:

Thoughts On Birthday Girl Children's Birthday Party Invitations

from: Minted

Little Z Children's Birthday Party Invitations

from: Minted

Mother's Day is literally around the corner, so here's a special deal on a gift for your Mum--10% off journals and personal stationery!  You will love these gorgeous designs.

You deserve a TREAT today!

Have you heard about the new personalized greeting card company, Treat? Treat is a new brand from the folks at Shutterfly and Tiny Prints that lets you create unique, personalized greeting cards. With more than 4,500 customized card designs at launch, the Treat service offers one of the industry’s largest selections from the best designers, including Hallmark. To ensure that you never miss an important date like a birthday or anniversary, Treat also offers an integrated service that will remind you of all those important events. A Treat calendar can be set up with reminders for anniversaries, events, family holidays and more. Plus, users can use Facebook Connect to link their Facebook and Treat accounts to import friends’ birthdays.

Treat is an easy and revolutionary new way to make personalized greetings in your own style and personality just in time for Mother's Day! Here is how it works:

• Choose your card from their thousands of designs, including the Mother’s Day Collection. Personalize it with photos, nicknames, inside jokes, whatever you want to add. This is your chance to make it YOUR card. Be creative. Be funny. Be sappy. Make them laugh, cry, or just smile. You can also add an embedded gift card from stores such as Amazon, Target, Pottery Barn and more.
  
  
• When you checkout, get unlimited cards for $0.99 each through Mother’s Day. Use the code AFFTREAT to get this special deal. Or, you can also choose to get just one card for free. Use code FREETREAT for that. (Note: These offers are good for first time Treat customers only, so you have to pick one or the other. The good news is that this includes previous Tiny Prints customers). If you are ordering more than one card, the $.99 cent offer will save you the most as each card is normally $2.99.

Treat will truly brighten your day…and the day of the recipients of your new cards! So check them out now and take advantage of their two awesome promotions. They have cards for all kinds of occasions including Birthdays, Friendship Cards, Thank You Cards, Thinking of You and more.