
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, originally I had planned a <a href="https://www.thinkingofyouweekusa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://www.thinkingofyouweekusa.com/">Thinking of You Week </a>post for today. I already had it half-way written in the back of my head. I was going to start by saying how great it would be if over the next several days, every last person feeling isolated would receive a card from someone who was thinking of them. Imagine all the good mojo circulating about! </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once again, the USPS is putting a &#8220;thinking of you&#8217; stamp on first class envelopes as they them through meters all month. That doesn&#8217;t come to life without a lot of work behind the scenes, in this case from staffers and volunteers at <a href="https://www.greetingcard.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://www.greetingcard.org/">The Greeting Card Association (GCA)</a>, and especially Nicky Burton at <a href="https://www.calypsocards.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://www.calypsocards.com/">Calypso Cards</a>. This has been her passion project for years, and now is an especially great time to reach out to someone faraway today. </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anyway, you know what they say about the best laid plans &#8230; mine dramatically upended last Friday evening during online Rosh Hashanah services, when I saw an alert that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Then I really wanted to do a post about her instead — ;maybe reminiscing about how wonderful it was to go to markets a few summers back and see her distinctively bespeckled face everywhere? — ; but I didn&#8217;t have anything new with her likeness on it. I was starting to go back to my Thinking of You post until yesterday afternoon, when I happened to get an email from Janie Velencia of <a href="https://www.thecardbureau.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://www.thecardbureau.com/">The Card Bureau</a> in response to my confirming receipt of some materials she submitted to Stationery Trends:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;If you&#8217;re looking for a story, a piece ;on RBG&#8217;s impact on stationery right now would be interesting,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;We&#8217;re getting more orders than we ever have. More than any trade show. Everyone seems to be buying up everything RBG right now, both retailers and wholesalers. ;A normal day for us might be 50-60 website retail ;orders, and we were ;getting 400 a day for a couple of days.&#8221;</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I wasn&#8217;t surprised at the sales — who would not want the above image, available as a button, magnet or bottle opener in their life right now? — ;but I was absolutely floored by this IG link Janie sent along. As a bit of exposition, 2016 found Janie covering the elections as a journalist for the Huffington Post and needing a creative outlet for her resulting stress, which was how The Card Bureau was born. </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The RBG cards and related product were in Janie&#8217;s first release. Above you can see the fabulous Card Bureau booth at National Stationery Show in 2019. That&#8217;s Janie at the far left, artist Alyssa Stanzione at far right, and Devon Wilson, Alyssa&#8217;s girl-friend and all-around Card Bureau trade show assistant, between RBG and Alyssa. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At any rate, the RBG merchandise sold slowly at first, Janie wrote. &#8220;I was just selling them to a couple of bookstores in DC. She wasn&#8217;t quite as popular back then and not many people or stores outside of DC even know who she was. So hard to believe today. I decided to make the cards ;with her because I felt like there was such a void of powerful female women to look up to who were anchors of truth and justice at the time. ; She made me feel good during a bleak period. And once her cards started selling well, it made me realize that other people were perhaps feeling a bit starved for female role models too and I could use stationery as a platform ;to elevate powerful important women.&#8221; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Not too long after that, this happened:</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I know these are not for sale, however!</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Janie specifically asked that I don&#8217;t solely feature her RBG merchandise in this post, so I&#8217;m featuring some picks from other favorite paper peeps. A lot is out of stock, however the wonderful Speak the Ruth tote is ready to buy at Seltzer. </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And, The Found has some great finds, including this mug, in stock as well!</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thank you so much Janie for letting me share this. Meanwhile, I think I need to burn one of <a href="https://www.thecardbureau.com/collections/candles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://www.thecardbureau.com/collections/candles/products/election-season-candle">these</a> to get me through the next six weeks. Get yours while they&#8217;re still available!</p>



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RBG’s Favorite Birthday Card
