In our email age, old-fashioned written correspondence is a refreshing throwback, like drinking a soda made with real sugar or watching the president hand someone a sword. Write a thank-you note to the past with today's deal: for $10, you get $20 worth of custom stationery and paper goods from English Tea Paperie. This Groupon must be redeemed online and cannot be used toward shipping.
English Tea Paperie creates custom stationery from hand-drawn designs for truly personalized communication. Quill- and pen-ready notecards are available in adorable prints such as a sweetly styled sparrow design (set of 10 for $15, 20 for $25). Represent your family in penguin form (10 for $15, 20 for $25), or use the cards to jot down your Aunt Edna’s favorite octopus recipe (15 for $9, 50 for $25). If your fancy has not been sufficiently tickled by the delightful designs on the site, you may commission a custom design that perfectly captures the essence of your upcoming wedding, birthday, or parrot-debate event ($35 design fee plus cost of cards, includes up to two revisions). Typeset devotees can test-drive all of the fonts online before ordering, and shipments generally go out within two weeks of ordering.
All notecards come wrapped in gorgeous grosgrain ribbon in their own clear-lid box for safekeeping. English Tea Paperie uses only acid- and lignin-free paper created at wind-powered mills, and all envelopes contain 30% recyclable post-consumer waste. Extra cards are donated to a public middle school in Richmond for use in art projects and note-passing, now referred to as ink-based texting.
Groupon Says
Origami Empire
Epochs before the English Tea Paperie, there once stood a kingdom so vast that it had no enemies, for indeed, it encompassed all inhabitable dry land on a planet not yet named in any surviving tongue. The kingdom’s thin, colorful, and infinitely angular towers stretched and wafted high into blue, cloudless skies, for clouds had not yet been born into the world. It was the age of the Origami Empire, originally the sole creation of a mad hermit who would in his loneliness construct first a city, and then a world.
Renaming himself Emperor Deft-Digits the First, his whimsical creations (small tables, frogs that really jumped) charmed the unaffiliated tribes until they all pledged their allegiance to him in exchange for his paper-bending secrets. Soon, of their own crafty compulsion, they expanded his kingdom, building paper churches, schools, and a primitive paper version of whirlyball, played in paper cars, in a paper shelter, but with a plum rather than a paper ball, for though paper could be freely folded, to crumple it was an abomination.
Then, one day without warning, the sky darkened and trembled. From the window of his paper minaret, the mad hermit who became an emperor watched as the first rain began to trickle on his paper kingdom. Droplets struck his head, effortlessly penetrating the ceiling above him. The very floor beneath his feet began to give way, and as surely as one rain began, another reign ended.
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