Love List – Keeping Track of Birthdays and Best Party Snack

If you’ve ever been curious about what the best party snack is or how to handle remembering birthdays or anniversaries, this weeks Love List is FOR YOU!

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Phi’s Picks

1. Couldn’t agree more: what’s the best party snack  – I have a post about making your own onion dip or the store mix!
2. It’s almost spring which means gardening – how cute are these gloves?
3. If you’re interested in raised gardening beds, here’s the beginners book.
4. What an amazing list: 31 spring self care ideas to energize your season!
5. In love with this stars card set.
6. This candle – smells and looks like a $100 candle and is only $35!
7. Definitely recommend this clothing stamp, I use it for our kids clothes ALL THE TIME
8. I want to make this for my kids to surprise them!
9. My friends (and readers) know me well, no less than 5 people sent me this news that one of my favorite books is getting turned into a movie! EEEEEeee so exciting!!

Alyssa’s Picks

1. Now that it’s getting warmer I saw this cute s’mores maker that would be perfect for Summer!
2. I just grabbed a box of these thank you cards.
3. I LOVE this KitchenAid bowl and this one too!
4. This was a fun list of hobbies to start this year or just ideas for things to do.
5. I’ve been loving the midi/slip dress style and this one comes in beautiful patterns and colors! This is also a good list for wedding guest dress ideas.

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I don’t know about you but I always struggle with remembering birthdays or anniversaries until I had this great conversation with Nancy who shared her system with me!

“I have every birthday and anniversary in a color-coded calendar. I am a Apple/Mac person so I do use their calendar but it would work in Google calendars or Fantastical. I just have it repeating annually on my calendar. I also have a paper perpetual calendar but I end up transferring that to a paper calendar that I buy yearly as well. I don’t know why I still have my paper back up because my electronic dedicated, Celebrations calendar works perfectly.

I sit down at the end of each month and address all my birthday and anniversary cards and I put them in order of when I need to mail them. They are stamped and have my return address label on them. I just need to write on them right before I mail them out. I have so many cards I can open my own Hallmark store. Ha ha! I tend to order from current catalog or colorful images for both cards and address labels a lot. I also treat myself to a yearly subscription to Pretty Paper Club – personalized stationery. Pretty Paper Club is based in Phoenix Arizona and it is a woman-owned small business. I’ve done this for three years now. I also like to give 3 to 6 month subscriptions to friends as a gift. Check her out on Instagram!”

– Nancy S.