Vendor Spotlight: RSVP

With wedding season in full force it is hard not to be thinking of RSVP's. This leads me to our next vendor. RSVP in Iowa City, Iowa. The lovely ladies of RSVP are spunky, creative and part of a tight knit community! Their store has so much to offer and I was dying to know more, so I just had to ask some questions!

How many years have you been in business? We’ve been going strong for 14 years!

Do you have a website, if so, what's the address?  www.rsvp-asap.com

If you were to sell something other than stationery, what would it be? I’d love a shop that combines luxury bath products (candles, soaps, lotions), beautiful lingerie, and letterpress poetry broadside work. Random? Yes. Delightful? Also yes!

Besides the obvious (stationery), what is your favorite thing to give as a hostess gifts?  Saipua Soaps: great soap, lovely paper packaging.

Here at Haute Papier, we love to eat!  When in NYC for the National Stationery Show, where is your favorite place to grab dinner?  www.casellula.com   It's teensy, intimate and delicious. I think it's also my favorite, because I’ve spent so many amazing evenings there with other paper people.

Any other tidbits about your store you'd like to share? We are community minded. We're located in the heart of Iowa City, home to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop (a superb book arts program) and a UNESCO City of Literature. We host numerous fine arts events in the store each month: literary readings, art exhibit openings, even live music once in awhile!  We are known for projects that encourage letter writing - mailart and penpals being among our faves. We’ve even helped sponsor a public piano that sits outside our store! Art comes in all forms, letters being only one, and we like the inspiration that collaboration brings…as well as the delightful sense of community.

Spring Trends Fashion Show

The Special Events Committee invites JLW members and friends to Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase on Thursday, March 29. Your ticket price includes a fashion seminar on 2012 spring trends, hosted and styled by Rachel Cothran, creator and writer of Project Beltway, as well as a cocktail reception. Nars Cosmetics will also be featured as a sponsor of the night.

Not only will you learn how to put together a fabulous wardrobe for work or play but attendees will also receive a 20% discount on purchases made after the show that evening AND benefit the league knowing that 10% of all proceeds will support our literacy efforts.

6:30pm Reception, 7pm Presentation

Tickets are $10 in advance for JLW Members

$10 / $20.00 at the door for JLW Members and non-JLW Members

 *Best of all - one of the fabulous models will be our very own Sarah Meyer Walsh!!

A Peek Inside!

I couldn't' resist snapping a photo of the lovely logo of Antiquaria as they were coming off the press last night!  We're so excited to have them as a new vendor (they'll be selling our fabulous Custom Letterpress Coasters) and just get so inspired by their quarterly design magazine - check it out here.  The Dutch Masters Tulip collection just makes us swoon!

 

Haute Papier's 5th Birthday Party!

We were so excited to celebrate Haute Papier's 5th birthday with our friends, families and fabulous clients a couple of weeks ago.  We did a bunch of DIY craft projects in the process of getting ready that we'll be sharing over the next couple of Make-It Mondays and decorated our new warehouse space at the same time!  Thank you, thank you, thank you to each and everyone of you who have supported us through your encouragement, purchases and promotion through the years - we look forward to many, many more! xoxo - Sarah & Erin