Please note: we will be out of the studio from 4/26-5/3. Orders placed in that time period will be filled after 5/4.
Happy New Year!! Bob and I hope you had a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. We had a great month celebrating Christmas with family and friends. I can't remember the last December when we had so many dinner dates and took a few nights off. We are so busy all...
OK, friends. I want to tell you about a little perfectionism backfire we just experienced. It's the time of year when I am painting all our new holiday designs, thinking about the items we need to order from our outside vendors, and the excitement about the upcoming holidays is building. So many...
Dear Uncle John, Thinking of you with love and gratitude. You have always been so important to me. My earliest memory of you is me sitting in the back seat of Mum’s car, with you in the passenger seat, going on one of our many excursions. When I think of my earliest...
This is officially the longest time I have ever worked anywhere. I am a baby boomer. I was supposed to work in a factory for thirty years and then retire to Florida, to complain about the state of the nation. I did have my turn at a few factories, first a...
Hi friends!! Just a quick blog check in to say Hello and bring you up to speed on what's going on here at El's Cards. We've been radio silent with good reason! When Bob and I started working together full time in 2015, we decided that a new website was a...
See El's Cards on NH Chronicle! Click here :) Hello friends! Happy Holidays to all! On Friday night, we enjoyed watching a beautiful segment about El's Cards on NH Chronicle created by the insightful journalist Karen Meyers. You may have seen my post shortly after Karen and Jason (the talented cameraman), came...
We are soooo excited to share this great news! This Friday, December 16th, at 7pm on WMUR El's Cards will be featured in a story on NH Chronicle. Thank you so much to all of you who have reached out and wished us good luck! This is an exciting time...
It's been a great year here at El's Cards! We have been busy with some great new projects and getting organized for the show season and the holiday season to come. Not to mention, weddings are back and going stronger than ever! For years, Bob had wanted to take the time to re-do...
My only experience of owning and operating a business was when I was younger, a lot younger. It consisted of a shovel, myself, and the hope for a large snow storm. I also had my second business of a rake, me again, and the falling leaves of autumn. Truth be...
This is hands down my favorite time of the year! The leaves are changing, the air is dry and cool, and I start lighting my pumpkin candles and try to enjoy the present moments...yet still thinking about the holiday season to come. We are happy to have introduced some fun...
I would like to call this my annual blog post, but if Ellen could convince me, she would have me posting every month. So, I compromise and offer a few blog posts each year. This one is considered the annual because it is the month when I started working with...
What a year it has been, that is an expression that will get overused quickly. Who could possibly explain all the challenges, obstacles, defeats, and victories of an entire year? However, I am aware of the tragedies that many have faced. I hope people have come together with family, friends,...
What a year it has been. We were so looking forward to 2020. The previous year, 2019, was challenging for many reasons. We had some big personal losses and were truly looking forward to a fresh start in 2020. The year started off great! We had lots of great shows lined...
Hello friends of El's Cards. What a year 2020 has been. So different than past years in many ways. Bob and I have learned so much about our business, ourselves, and how to adapt and make the best of what at some moments looked like an impossible situation. We missed working with...
We are apart together. I did not invent this new saying, but I do really like it. I am sitting alone in my home based workshop; my wife is upstairs in her home based office/studio. To us, this is a normal workday. We have been doing this for the last...
These times have a been a whirlwind of emotion for everyone. I know I should just be speaking for myself, but after talking with family and friends, our wedding couples, and many other clients, I don't feel like I am out on a limb with this statement. Bob and I...
Hello friends of El's Cards. I regret to announce that I have some sad news. My favorite store, Visibility, will be closing its doors by the end of 2019. It has been such a pleasure to be associated with this lovely shop. Carie, Susan, and Mary (the wonderful owners...and I'm proud...
When I started working at Jet Blue in 2006, Bob and I decided to get a couple of kittens. We thought it would be good company for Bob when I was gone on trips...and good company for me when I was at home working. Both of us being cat lovers,...
I love being my own boss. Being a business owner presents many challenges that the artist in me often resists....it would be so much more fun to just paint and do calligraphy all day. But alas, there are those business-y things that also need to be done for El's Cards...
What a year!! So many great things happened at El's Cards in 2016! First and foremost, it was our first full year working together as a team. And I am happy to report that it went extremely well! Bob's strengths and mine are so different so we complement each other...
Days off have been few and far between lately! BUT....after our amazing show this weekend...The Vintage Bazaar in Salisbury, MA....we needed it. Often we will enjoy a "stare at the wall day" for our day off if we haven't had one in awhile. But Monday was perfect fall weather, so...
