March Care Package

Look what I got in the mail today!!! A vey well decorated care package from the coolest girl ever!!! I literally have the worlds best friend!! She knows me soo well!!! In my care package I got my favorite candy Hersey caramel kisses in side some super cute Easter eggs! I also received 2 books: Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass, some seeds to plant, a very cute stamp that goes
smashingly with the Alice book, as well as the deck of cards, some other sweet Easter candy and my favorite is the super cute silicone teacup cupcake kit!!! I can't wait to use them!!! Here is a picture of everything!!! Isn't she amazing!?!

Valentine Care Package

Look what I got in the mail yesterday!!!  A Valentines care package from Danielle!!!  She knows me a little too well!  Inside I found a chocolate covered strawberry cake pop kit, a vintage date stamper, a mini mouse jump drive, fuzzy socks, a gift card to Starbucks, cotton candy, gardening seeds, and our new read! I am so excited to use all of my new gifts.

Danielle also sent our friendship journal back to Texas.  Here is a look at what she created.  Using a whole punch shape on scrapbooking projects adds such a special touch.  I love this vintage Valentine that Danielle created!

Quick Update!

I finished the book!! Lisa did an amazing job picking the book for us to read! I can't wait to hear what she thinks of it!!! Look for a full review of the book Summer at Tiffany on our Couture Books section coming soon!!!

Xo
Danielle

The Official First Care Package!!!

It's here! Or at least it arrived over the weekend and do to my over excitement I have neglected to post about it! This last weekend marked the arrival of the first best friend care package from Lisa to me! I was so excited to open the package, which I must say was beautiful minus the damages to Audrey Heburns face (picture)! Inside I found our friendship journal a very cute cookie cutter, our monthly book read, coffee, our envelope recipe cards, some organic goats milk soap and lip balm, and of course some cookie dough batter mix ( for the cookie cutter of course)! Here is a picture of all the things Lisa sent! So excited to be able to share it with you!!!


Xo
Danielle

Envelope Pocket Recipe Book

Recently I came across an inspiration to store recipe cards.  While drinking coffee in the bookstore this weekend I found an amazing article in a magazine.  The writer spoke of using envelope pockets to tuck photos into creating an envelope pocket album.  I saw this idea and immediately started to wonder how I could transform this idea to fit our best friend needs!  I developed the thought of using envelope pockets to store recipe cards.  I have posted a more detailed description and photo on our Cafe Amitie page.  We would love for you to check it out!

Couture Update

We would like to take a minute to invite you to check out our couture book for our current read, our crafts page for a glance at our best friend journal, and our friends page for a special article about how we met.  Stay tuned in for much, much, more this week.

Welcome to our site!

Hello readers!  My name is Lisa Reeh and I am a First Grade teacher at an Inner City Elementary School.  I have taught First Grade for two years and Kindergarten for three.  It was during my three years of experience teaching Kindergarten that I met Danielle.  (my fellow writer) Danielle was my teaching assistant and became my best friend shortly after getting to know her.  I truly believe that everyone has a twin.  We are literally two peas in a pod!  Danielle and I have created this blog in order to stay connected even with the miles between us.  Some of my favorite things include:  Starbucks, scrapbooking, cooking, and reading classic novels.  Danielle and I would like to thank you for taking time to look around our blog.  This sight means so much to our friendship and we are so excited to be able to share it with you!

Hey everyone! I am the second half of this blog, one of the writers and creators! Oh and by the way my name is Danielle! I am new to the blogging world, so bare with me when it comes to writing new entries and find things to post, but like they say “practice makes perfect”. Now I would like to keep this fairly short, but incase I end up rambling about some random unnecessary story I apologize ahead of time. =) I love love love all things old and vintage! The look and the feel of things that have been cherished by others before me is just indescribable. I am a coffee drinker, as much as I adore tea cups and teapots (so cute!) it is not my first, or for that matter, second choice when I am looking for a nice hot drink. That’s probably one of the few things different about Lisa and me. My favorite color is red, so most of the random thrift store or vintage items I will be posting will contain red. I love old keys. I don’t know why, I just do, and oddly enough I don’t have any… I have two crazy dogs who are skilled in the art of food hunting (one of them can actually UNZIP things!) Their hot commodity item (right now at least) is gum, if you leave it within their reach, they will claim it and leave you a nice pile of ripped packaging to clean up.  Other then shopping at thrift stores and vintage markets or drinking coffee and things that are red I enjoy reading! The possibilities are endless as long as you have a book by your side. If I ever had to be stuck some place for the rest of my life I would easily choose a bookstore or library. Now to keep the rest of this little excerpt from running on much longer here are 5 random facts you otherwise would not know about me =).

1.       I love mixed matched things. Spoons, dishes, etc. Coffee mugs the most though.

2.       Ghost stories scary me, however I had a weird fascination with them.

3.       I love taking pictures.

4.       14 is my lucky number (day I was born)

5.       I LOVE Chocolate

If you did by any chance make it to the end of this, I thank you for taking the time to visit our site and spend a little bit of time on us. I hope you enjoy the many things to come on our blog just as much as we enjoyed finding and sharing them!