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Thursday, December 1, 2011

KEEPING AMERICA ON TOP: WHOM YOU KNOW CELEBRATES AMERICAN STYLE INTELLIGENCE and EXCELLENCE WITH CRANE & CO, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY WHOM YOU KNOW! CRANE HAS BEEN PURSUING AMERICAN EXCELLENCE SINCE 1801 AND WE ARE THRILLED TO KICK OFF OUR COVERAGE OF CRANE AND COMPANY! BRING THE BEST OF NEW ENGLAND TO THE BEST OF YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS SEASON!

We love feeling regal and nothing makes us feel more regal than writing on beautiful stationary from Crane & Co. The holidays are just around the corner and we want our love ones to feel a little regal too, which is why we will be sending the classic hand engraved cards by Crane & Co. to our nearest and dearest. We just love the beautiful details in each card, along with there lined envelope. The "Season's Greeting Silver Wreath" cards we will be sending this year, really celebrate the excitement of the season and the tradition of exchanging holiday cards. Your recipients will not only feel regal opening these luxury cards but loved as well! We also love the adorable "Holiday Bow" Note cards. The 100% cotton paper cards in ecru white also come with lined envelopes and are perfect for the many thank you notes we will be sending this year, after-all we will be receiving lots of gifts. Crane & Co. is a great thought for all your gift giving needs, we loved the "Wine Lovers" lined posted pad, it would be a great gift for all of our wine loving friends, yes, you know who you are. Crane & Co. also has an expansive variety of cards and holiday trimmings for all you gift giving needs including adorable decorative embossed foil seal, we especially love the Snowman motif. These beautiful seals will be the finishing touch to your regal card, wrapped gift or gift tag. It is that little extra touch of sparkle and tradition that you can count on from all of Crane & Co's quality products, perfect for the holiday season or anytime of year. Now, we just need to get started writing all those cards!

Penmanship was a big part of my early schooling. Beautiful paper and fountain pens filled with peacock colored ink played a big part in the social whirl of being an adolescent in suburban America. Note cards weren't just for holidays, but to write our thanks, salutations, or just as a letter home from camp. We luxuriated in which paper to choose, what colors, which typeface to engrave our stationery with our initials. Crane & Co. continues the tradition with luxurious cotton fiber paper. For notecards at the holiday time, choose their festively embossed creamy ivory. Simple, and direct as a personal communique, the envelopes impart instant happy, with their seasonal red linings.

The pleasure of opening a fresh box of stationery has always been a singular one: cheerful silver wreaths dotted with seasonal berries are a perfect way to communicate your best wishes during this harried time of the year. Take a moment to write to a friend, an Aunt, a beloved teacher, and feel the joy of writing again by hand. These particular cards are embossed with the appropriate "Season's Greetings" in silver, and the envelope liner is a rich silver to match. Holiday cards should be a joy to the giver, as well as to the receiver. Crane & Co. keeps the spirit alive with festivity, and tender a sense of the correct. For the other spirits of the season, Crane makes a magnetic pad, as a shopping list for your holiday imbibing, printed with an artistic rendition familiar to any oenophile. Charming bottles, a just-filled glass, and a corkscrew, hand sketched at the bottom of the list, set the mood and would be the perfect accompaniment to a bottle of well-chosen wine for any holiday hostess. Not to leave the amusing side of the festivities aside, Crane &Co. offers embossed Foil Seals, that add a touch of "delight and elegance" to all invitations and correspondence this season. Tuck their jolly snowmen into each stocking on the mantel as an added "perceived value" gift from Santa.

Crane & Co. has really out done themselves this year. Their holiday cards are absolutely gorgeous! I love the beautiful wreath design on the card - it really makes me want to start writing my holiday cards immediately. I always find their holiday stationary to be simply beautiful and elegant. Once again they hit a home run! The holiday thank you/note cards are also such a beautiful way to thank or write a note to those during the holidays. To add a very cute touch Crane & Co. has some very classic snowman stickers that you can attach to the back of your envelope to seal them. Their stationary products are always of the best quality hands down. I never have to worry about it. Oh, and before I forget, their magnet note pads are so cute and handy. The wine bottle design is simply adorable and I love that I can attach it to my refrigerator. It comes in handy when you need to mark a note.

When you think of elegant stationery there could only be one brand that comes to mind…Crane & Co! They are known for their quality, classic and elegant papers with innovative designs. With Christmas on the way, Crane’s should be at the top of your list for cards and thank you notes. One of the most elegant designs I have seen this year is their silver wreath with red berries. Makes the perfect winter celebration statement. Another great design for the holiday is the Holiday Bow Notes, perfect for thanking for all those wonderful parties and presents you receive. Also wonderful for business or personal notes sent. Team those up with their fun decorative embossed foil seals and you will create the prettiest envelopes or packages. Crane & Co is also the perfect place to look for hostess gifts like their magnet pads. A great idea is to give the Wine Lovers List Pad with a great bottle of wine to your hostess. Shows you put in a little more effort and time into your gift.

CRANE AND COMPANY IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY WHOM YOU KNOW.

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There’s frost on the ground in New England, and that means it’s holiday time at Crane & Co., the nation’s leading stationery firm. Actually, every day is a holiday at Crane, as their presses are kept busy year-round printing Christmas cards and other holiday papers.

Crane, founded in 1801, is perhaps best known for its social and business correspondence papers, but holiday cards, letters, invitations and gifts are to be found in more than 1,500 retailers across the country during the run-up to the holidays.

Among the many holiday cards Crane shoppers will encounter is their Hand Engraved Silver Wreath with Berries. As the name suggests, this card is engraved by hand in metallic silver and red, and no other printing technique reveals the exquisite work of the artist. The 100% cotton card opens to read “Season’s Greetings.”

10 holiday cards / 10 lined envelopes

price: $28.00 per box

To send a more personal message to family and friends over the holidays, Crane makes a wide variety of 100% cotton folded notes. Holiday Bow Notes send a message wrapped in the spirit of the season with matching envelopes lined in vivid red. Printed by thermography on Crane’s heavyweight 40-pound paper.

10 notes / 10 lined envelopes

price: $15.00 per box

For the wine aficionado on your holiday list, the Wine Lover List Pad is the perfect gift. Whether it's tasting notes or a to-do list, this practical pad will have you toasting your accomplishments in no time.

75 sheet pad

$7.00 per Pad

And let Frosty add the perfect final touch to all your holiday gifts and correspondence. Snowman Holiday Seals are embossed in silver heavyweight foil to show off a well-appointed symbol of the season.

16 foil seals

price: $3.50 per package

To find a Crane retailer nearest you, or to purchase online, please visit www.crane.com.

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