Handwritten notes convey messages more intimately than email, faster than trained pigeons, and more reliably than telekinetic alphabet-soup manipulation. Get your point across in style with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of stationery, apparel, and gifts at Two Sprouts in Metairie. This Groupon is valid at Two Sprouts’ flagship store on Metairie Heights Avenue.

Two Sprouts boutique, the offshoot of a flourishing online business, tickles the fancies of adults and kids with a potpourri of personalized paper goods as well as casual clothing and artful gift items. A platoon of customized stationeries showcases regional pride with designs depicting red and green trolleys and the NOLA skyline ($20/10). Meanwhile, elegant fleur de lis note cards ($16/10) soften the blow of scathing letters to the editor or ransom notes. Parents can gussy up kids' heads with floppy sun hats ($20) or send them off to summer internships with briefcases full of gator calling cards ($15/20). Adult tees ($15–$28) outfit men and women for casual activities, such as trips to the grocery store, where customers can make use of Two Sprouts' shopping lists ($8).

Two Sprouts makes regular donations to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s Save Our Lake oil-spill-cleanup effort. Shoppers with environmentally conscious consciences can invest in tot-sized spOILed shirts ($28, limited number available) and other apparel to directly benefit coastal cleanup efforts.