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1. Personalized Letter Name Cards

   

   Sim­ply choose a back­ground color and send her your name and Mrs Booth will send you a lovely, custom-printed name card! Lots of other fun stuff on her site as well!

   via lmnop

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2. Ready-Made Letterpress Invitations

   

   Tara Hogan of Ink + Wit designed a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of ready-made let­ter­press invi­ta­tions for chil­dren. I absolutely love the orange ele­phant illus­tra­tion! She has lots of other let­ter­press good­ies, as well as a fan­tas­tic blog that is loaded with inspi­ra­tion. Oh yeah, and she’s really cool!

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3. Nonchalant Mom at Home

   

   There’s a great fea­ture in the lat­est issue of Rhode Island Monthly on the home of Carina Schott and Karim Hamid from Non­cha­lant Mom (also fea­tured as “Best Online Kids Store”). It’s a won­der­ful blend of liv­abil­ity and style, some­thing those of us with young chil­dren know is no easy accom­plish­ment. Very inspirational!

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4. Treehouses of the World

   

   New Tree­houses of the World, the lat­est book from tree­house guru Pete Nel­son (see his work at Tree­house Work­shop), takes you on a tour of amaz­ing tree­houses that have been built around the world. Inspir­ing for the back­yard architect!

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5. The Imagination Outfitters

   

   826 National, co-founded by author Dave Eggers, is a fan­tas­tic non­profit ded­i­cated to help­ing stu­dents, ages 6 to 18, with expos­i­tory and cre­ative writ­ing. Their work is based on the under­stand­ing that great leaps in learn­ing can hap­pen with one-on-one atten­tion, and that strong writ­ing skills are fun­da­men­tal to future success.

   They have workshop/learning cen­ters in 7 cities, each fronted by an unusual and richly imag­i­na­tive con­cept store to help raise funds, inspire cre­ativ­ity, and adver­tise their pro­grams. I knew about some of the stores but I didn’t real­ize they were all part of the same orga­ni­za­tion, or that they had a super-fun robot shop in Michi­gan, my home state!

   If you hap­pen to live near one of the fol­low­ing loca­tions, you’re in for a real treat!

   • The Pirate Store (San Fran­cisco, CA)
   • Green­wood Space Travel Sup­ply Com­pany (Seat­tle, WA)
   • Brook­lyn Super­hero Sup­ply Co. (Brook­lyn, NY)
   • The Bor­ing Store (Chicago, IL)
   • The Echo Park Time Travel Mart (Los Ange­les, CA)
   • Lib­erty Street Robot Sup­ply & Repair (Ann Arbor, MI)
   • Big­foot Research Insti­tute (Boston, MA)

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