Etsy Favorites: Snail Mail Wins the Race

 Unicorn Rainbow Magic Notecard, My Zoetrope

 That's Disgusting . . . Tell Me More Postcard, Pretty Girl Postcards

 Favorite (JELL-O) Dessert Tags, Sassy Sadie Lee

I Hear You're Looking for a Bad Boy Greeting Card, Able and Game

Colorful Painted Paper Sheets, Calyrew 

 Oh You Greeting Card, Perch Paper Company

 Frida Kahlo with Black Cat Postcards, Tascha

Floral Vintage Handkerchief Envelope with Love Locks Card, Two Girls and a Trailer

Rainbow High Heels Card, Sam Ossie

Toucans Gift Card Enclosures, Ellen Morrow Arts

These days you're more likely to get a flirty text than a love letter.  Which is all well and good in a pinch.  But typed one-liners and emoticons just don't pack the same punch as the scrawl of handwritten sentiments heralded by one-of-a-kind images.  What's more, you can't tuck a text message into a scrapbook, or put it up on the fridge, or seal it in an envelope smiling with stickers.  I myself have a big stationery collection and love sending notecards to my customers.  So, I thoroughly enjoyed checking out Etsy's paper goods offerings and posting the prettiest, most charming, and most hilarious up on the virtual fridge that is this blog.  Like what you see?  Then stock up, break out your address book, and send a line or two to Great Aunt Maud or your old summer camp bunkmate (provided that you and said bunkmate parted on good terms; The Tote Trove does not wish to promote social awkwardness, not even in the name of kick-ass stationery :)