All the Things

Others find snail mail magic or the rewards of writing a thank you note

I got sent this article by friends three times in one day because I love mail, and my friends know it. It has a lot of good juice about writing thank-you notes. The same day I listened to a talk on...

Love Means Saying Sorry

Today on Marc Maron's podcast with comedian Tommy Tiernan, he mentions the importance of the making amends part of the 12-step program. It brought up a touching story from the Heartfelt days. One S...

More Gift Guides!

I have small business friends; we support each other, go into the weeds with marketing, and they, not I, talk spreadsheets. I love helping them this time of year, and a few of you have asked me for...

The Friday that is hard

Black Friday was hard for Heartfelt. I would call my friend Hugh and say, "no one was in the store; this year is bad." He would say, "it's early." And I would feel comforted and go back in until I...

Hail the Snail Mail unboxing on HI Noel

Hail the Snail Mail was featured on the HI Noel YouTube channel last week with an "unboxing" of the September, October and November subscription packages. You can watch the video below. It is so fu...

What do I regret?

I was asked on a Live Instagram with Coach Kate Blake last week, "What do I regret most?" or "What would I have done differently?" ,,, this was a spontaneous question, and my answer came up immedia...

Giving Gives Agency

We offer a subscription because cards are time-consuming to buy; when you need one, you usually need it right then. I have access to beautiful cards that one might not find in one shop, and each mo...

I learned how to dry flowers in one month!

When I was little, my mom would ask me to pick wildflowers, and we would put them into big books to dry. Then months later, I would look up a word for school, and this beautiful dried flower would...

Do you ever feel rushed and at the last minute when trying to get a card in the mail?

Here are my tips:  1. Have a library of cards on hand. You get to choose and flip through your selection of beautiful images and paper. 2. Buy stamps, have them available and ready.  3.Have a list ...

The best salad I ever made

Last night I made this salad again; I had mentioned it in my newsletter twice, once in 2018 when I had to close the doors of my brick and mortar due to smoke in San Francisco and again in 2020 whe...