cure for the winter blues

So you’ve seen the new HB Photo Packaging value packs and color selections here, and the new “Print Your Own” packaging line here. So now why don’t you go and fill your closets and shelves with boxes once and for all because HB is having a sale! And it’s a good one!

HB Photo Packaging is doing a “Winter Blues” promotion this weekend, offering 10% off to their e-mail subscribers & Facebook fans.

But…..they wanted to give a special 15% off discount to their Paperie favorite customers. You can find the promo code below. But hurry! The coupon turns back into a pumpkin on Sunday, January 23rd at midnight.

Don’t forget – if you signed up for a new ClickinMoms membership with the code PAPERIE2011 by midnight on January 31, 2011, you received 20% off your ClickinMoms membership. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!

If you signed up through Paperie by January 31st, you also got the following items as our ‘thank you‘:

Write Robyn if you still need to collect your goodies!

you’re on the list

If you’ve been wanting to order from HB Photo Packaging after seeing them featured here, looks like today is your lucky day!

As part of our week-long birthday blowout, HB is giving Paperie readers 10% off in the webstore on Tuesday, July 13th – but the sale ends at 3:30 p.m. EDT so don’t miss out! Check out their Facebook page for more (and order here)!

More fun is on the way – check back often!
-Robyn

birthday packaging

I’m closing the first day of the big birthday celebration by leaving visions of pretty packaging floating through your head…

Get ready because tomorrow – Tuesday, July 13th – from 8:00 a.m. EDT until 3:30 p.m. EDT, HB Packaging is having a special sale in honor of Paperie’s 1st birthday. All webstore items will be 10% off. More details on the birthday sale at their Facebook page (order here).

And check back in on Tuesday because I have it on good authority you won’t wanna miss what’s in store!

Pass the cupcakes!
-Robyn

P.S. Are you a vendor who wants in on the fun? Please contact robyn @ this domain ASAP for information on how to throw your own Paperie-soirée!

gratitude. journal.

When word got out from a recent post, I can’t even begin to describe the response. My brain, and heart, are overflowing with joy and amazement. How do you truly say thank you for something like this? Or the forum posts full of concern? Or the vendor notes of support (like the one when Moo‘s Vice President alerted several colleagues on staff to make sure I was taken care of just because he could). Or surprise gifts in the mail. Or Tweet DMs to check in – one from Pixel2Canvas on vacation in the middle of the Grand Canyon. Or the dozens of e-mails we’ve received. Or a note from a photographer who had just lost her husband and the father of her 5 children, worried about MY FAMILY. (We are so ok by comparison.) Or the little surprises in our PayPal account just because. I mean, it’s more than the human mind can really wrap around.

You go through life trying to do good and just make it day to day. You stumble. Sometimes you stumble hard. Sometimes you even hurt people. You dust yourself off eventually, regroup, reprioritize, remember you’re not really all that (well maybe all that, but often minus the potato chips), and promise yourself that if you don’t learn from those past mistakes what’s the point of the future…so buckle down and get to it… That’s been my 2010. I’ve buckled down and got to it. I had another such gut-check / perspective experience on a CT-scan table just over a week ago to make me even more focused on what’s really important.

In my recent Rangefinder piece, I wrote about the photographer community and my close relationship with my vendors. While being interviewed about this website, the article opened and closed with the following:

I let ‘Fit to Print’ evolve into Paperie Boutique, a standalone blog, through which I’m paying it forward to those who helped me along the way…..What has this experience taught Robyn? “I’ve learned to never underestimate the generosity of people and their willingness to teach and share,” [Robyn] says. “Just when you think you couldn’t possibly be more proud of your professional community, something as simple as a ‘thank you’ or ‘I can help with that’ never ceases to amaze.”

I’m used to being on the organization and donation collection end of things. It’s been humbling to be on the receiving end to say the very least.

Then yesterday the latest ‘random act of kindness’ showed up on my door step.

It’s no secret that I love HB Photo Packaging, but this was just beyond unreal. This was a surprise just for me, just because. You can read more of the details over here at Flickr – please make sure to add to the comments and thank them on behalf of our professional community!

And shop their weekend sale—HB Packaging is having a 10% off summer sale!

And speaking of vendors, we have a winner in the recent Design Aglow contest! It’s Silvine Designs / Silvine Photography:

Congrats to Michelle and another huge round of THANKS to Design Aglow for being such big supporters of this site, and for donating such fantastic prizes! Thanks to everyone who participated as well, and have a great weekend!