On a personal note

Put your handwriting to good use and delight friends with some smashing stationery.

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Style At Home site: http://www.styleathome.com

Pretty things they'll love to open

Handwritten notes mean so much more in our digitally driven world than they did before email.

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Wish Magazine site: http://www.wish.ca

Gifts she'll love

Vancouver's Haute Note is a modern online paperie where ordering for any time of the year is a well mannered cinch - and it makes for fab, personalized gift.

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The Province Newspaper site: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/index.html

CTV's eTalk

Reporter Susie Wall claims "...tinsletown is madly in love with this line (Haute Note)..."

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eTalk site: http://etalkbroadband.ctv.ca/etalk/

Inspiration

In the cards

Noteworthy

With a summer full of weddings, showers and graduations just around the corner, nothing says best wishes better than a personalized note. These paper treasures—and sentiments—will give any occasion a magical touch.

Celebrity Baby Gift Bags July 07

Our haute notes were personalized for the littlest, cutest and newest additions to the families of Julia Roberts, Sheryl Crow, Tiger Woods, Keri Russell, Kevin Costner, Jaime Pressly and Dave Matthews.

This special program works with celebrities to raise awareness and benefit the children's charity, the Plasticos Foundation (www.plasticosfoundation.org).

Vancouver's HAUTE NOTE gives personalized stationery a contemporary makeover.

A passion for paper and the desire to find balance between family time and doing something they loved prompted Vancouver-based Geraldine Zinsli and Yasmeen Strang to leave their careers in the design industry and launch Haute Note last spring.

Haute Note

BlackBerrys may be convenient, ladies, but they can't deliver the polish of a customized card. Modern paperie Haute Note is determined to bring some sophistication back to your written correspondance. The more than 76 chic designs available on high-quality stock will make it the thought that will really count. (Tip: Check out www.hautenote.com for a refresher on thank-you note etiquette.)

Better Than A Bright Red Apple

Sorry to tell you but you've got more presents to buy. It's the end of the year and teachers need to be thanked.

Don't be the only mom at nursery school graduation without a lovingly chosen teacher's gift in hand. (And what's up with the three year old's "graduating" anyway?)

Hot Link: Hautenote.com

When was the last time you mailed a handwritten note? On the flip side, wouldn’t it be nice to receive a bona fide letter?

getting carded

With the spring social season heating up, a girl needs a stack of social stationary on hand, when an email (even if the font is pink) just doesn't do justice to the occasion. Enter Haute Note a new modern paperie from a pair of savvy Vancouver women with a knack for design.

Haute Note

We're so over beaming people thank-you cards by PDA or breaking up with Wilmer, Nick or Stavros via voice mail. Put aside the plastic and opt for an alarmingly charming canvas on which to spill your sentiments with personalized social stationery from Vancouver's new Haute Note.