Parkside Paper + Gift is an online retailer specializing in fine gift and stationery products. We have designed our online shop to make your shopping experience fun, fast and easy. Parkside is a retail web boutique that sells unique and high quality stationery and gift items. Parkside Papers is an online retailer specializing in fine gift and stationery products. Continue reading “Parkside Paper Review & Giveaway” »

About Them: PETER PAUPER PRESS, founded in 1928, is one of America’s leading publishers of fine gift books, humor books, compact references, travel guides, unique journals, quality stationery, holiday cards, and innovative children’s activity books. We publish approximately 100 books and ancillary products per year. In 1928, after studying with famed book and type designer Frederic W. Goudy, printer William Edwin Rudge, and Melbert B. Cary, 22-year-old Peter Beilenson set up a small press in the basement of his father’s home in Larchmont, New York, and designed and printed about 200 copies of J. M. Synge’s With Petrarch. The entire print run was purchased by a New York bookseller, and the volume was lauded as one of the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ “50 Books of the Year.” This was the auspicious beginning of the Peter Pauper Press. Continue reading “Peter Pauper Press Review” »

About Them: Board Book Albums has four great kids- Slone, Marren, Lucia, Lorén and a wonderful husband, Chris. I spend my days juggling kids’ activities, work responsibilities, household duties, and an occasion workout. I love spending time with my family, so I decided that I would stay home with the kids after my daughter, Lucia, was born in January 2006. As a CPA, for the next 3 years I was able to telecommute doing accounting work for a worldwide company based in The Woodlands, Texas. Then in September 2010 we relocated to Edwardsville, Illinois. In January 2007, when my daughter Lucia was a year old, we realized that she was somewhat behind her peers in meeting certain developmental milestones. Continue reading “Board Book Albums Review” »

Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora during their last semester at UC Berkeley in 2009. Two months away from graduation, and heading into the corporate world of investment banking & consulting, they came across the idea during a class lecture of being able to potentially grow gourmet mushrooms entirely on recycled coffee grounds. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages & fresh, local food, they experimented in Alex’s fraternity kitchen, ultimately growing one test bucket of tasty oyster mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. With that one bucket, some initial interest from Whole Foods & Chez Panisse and a $5,000 grant from the UC Berkeley Chancellor for social innovation, they decided to forget the corporate route, and instead, become full-time urban mushroom farmers! Continue reading “Back to the Roots Review” »

As with many great inventions, the momAgenda was created to simplify the life of its founder – and caught on like wildfire. Nina Restieri, a former successful ad executive, and businesswoman at the helm of a family business, was attempting to organize her chaotic schedule (and those of her family of four young children) one morning when she started to think about wedding planners. Why, she wondered, are there hundreds of options for brides to choose from to plan their wedding, but not a single option for mothers to plan their everyday lives? One year of extensive research later, momAgenda was born. The first run of products sold out within three days to 120 stores. At that moment, Nina knew she had struck a chord with women all over the country who had the same desire to bring some order to their hectic lives. Continue reading “Mom Agenda Review & Giveaway” »