Things & Stuff: The Blog of Em & Friends

To reflect my current mood, in three colors! Free to download for personal use, not okay to sell. Disclaimer, schmisclaimer. 

Hi guys, I started talking with Papyrus two years ago about creating a card collection with them, and the cards finally hit stores this week! (Lice...

Hi guys, It is FOR REAL my intention to be blogging here regularly because I really like writing in a longer-form way. People keep asking how my “...

I've spent the last few months making some enormous and exciting changes to our business model. WHY DID WE DO THIS AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? I think that's best approached in a good old-fashioned Q&A! Have a seat while I interview myself.

I really like doing these little comic-style illustrations, and if I could clone myself, I'd love to do a page-a-day visual diary as a passion project. Without further ado, I give you January through March of 2015! 

We had so much customer feedback to consider when creating these – something we didn’t have the first round -- and I wanted to make sure I honored that, while also making sure I was writing from a real place, AND that they were good, creatively speaking. 

I just finished reading Bréne Brown’s new book, Rising Strong, which is awesome (not surprisingly; she is the best). It’s about the process of taki...

Hi guys! When I posted last week about the aftermath of our Empathy Cards release, I mentioned some other major changes that had taken place this s...

Dear friends, Please excuse the extreme delay between my last post, introducing our Empathy Cards, and this one, talking about the insane trip tha...

Hi, friends. Today we're launching something new. They're called Empathy Cards, and they're designed to give to people with a serious illness. I've been working on the idea for these cards for a long time, and this project is really important to me.

One of my favorite things about having a card line: I get to invent ways to celebrate important people and events that are under-represented in Mainstream Greeting Card World. 

When I started my business, I tried (but not that hard) to think of a good name. When I didn’t come up with anything I loved (after not that long thinking about it), I decided to just go with my own. “Hey,” I thought, “it worked for Jonathan Adler and Diane von Furstenburg!” I am here to tell you this: I gave myself kind of bad advice. Now that I’m a couple of years into this venture, with the benefit of our old pal hindsight, I now know a lot more about when naming a business after yourself makes sense, and when it might make more sense not to.