One Of The Coolest & Cheapest Discoveries Yet…

One Of The Coolest & Cheapest Discoveries Yet…

November 9th, 2007 @ 1:24 pm by Mrs. Cherry Blossom
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It’s been a crazy few weeks for me - hence the huge lack of posts - my bad. Tons of stress and things coming at me at the same time. When things have cooled, I’ll slowly make my transition back in and update you on the bajillion things going on.

Anyhoot, on a whim, I started making templates for our invitations. Mr.CB and I recently went to check out paper at Paper Source. We were able to agree on the different papers and color schemes we wanted to use for our two weddings, and so it kicked my ass into high gear (especially since I recently had a personal meltdown with myself that time is a ticking ~ and I’ve been sailing… on lazy.) Although our invites won’t be mailed out ’til next year, say another four months, it’ll pay off that I started now to make my life easier later, since I have so many ideas in my head.

One of the templates I created were for our RSVP’s which are pretty simple, soft cream, luxe card with bare motifs. I was contemplating how I’d number them so that I’d know which guest(s) it came back from discreetly. Then jackpot, I came across a fabulous steal that I just have to share!

These awesome Invisible Ink Pens!

The best part, they’re only $4.99 for a set of 2, and they have a built in black light in the pen cap!

Talk about SCORE! HI FIVE baby! You likee?!

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19 Responses to “One Of The Coolest & Cheapest Discoveries Yet…”

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Miss Toucan (message) 1,327 posts, Bumble bee

me likey!
I’ve heard about this idea before, but I’ve never seen the pens anywhere! Thanks for the link

11/9/07 @ 1:27 pm (reply)

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Tea

i lovey! i wanted to do this after i saw another bride do the same. maybe mrs. bop with her awesome invitation package? but the in-cap pen light is ingenious!

11/9/07 @ 1:28 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Bee (message) 3,235 posts, Sugar bee

oddly enough, miss strawberry posted about this at the exact same time last year (her post is in today’s one year ago in fact!)

but the built in blacklight - now that’s nifty.

11/9/07 @ 1:30 pm (reply)

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Angel (message) 1,263 posts, Bumble bee

How cool is this? I’m tucking it away in my bag of tricks.

11/9/07 @ 1:33 pm (reply)

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erika426 (message) 170 posts, Blushing bee

yeah I like the built in black light!

11/9/07 @ 1:35 pm (reply)

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Mrs. S

I’m confused. Why do you need these?

11/9/07 @ 1:41 pm (reply)

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Angel (message) 1,263 posts, Bumble bee

Some couples will number the cards so they know what numbers have come back (it’s a little easier than digging through names, especially for larger weddings). This is a great way to do that descretely since all you have to do is flash the little light over the number on the RSVP card.

11/9/07 @ 1:43 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Onion (message) 710 posts, Busy bee

it’s also helpful when people send the rsvp back and forget to write their names — don’t laugh, it happens.

great idea/find!

11/9/07 @ 1:50 pm (reply)

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Miss Lovebird (message) 1,002 posts, Bumble bee

Thanks for the link. I am definitely going to use them!

11/9/07 @ 1:53 pm (reply)

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harugirlie

AWESOME! What a great idea! I will have to pick up one of those!

11/9/07 @ 2:12 pm (reply)

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MissFlamingo (message) 90 posts, Worker bee

OOOO… I like. I want one now!!! Awesome find

11/9/07 @ 2:41 pm (reply)

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Veroni

We used a tiny pencil mark on the back, but this is WAY cooler!

11/9/07 @ 4:57 pm (reply)

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MissMandy (message) 251 posts, Helper bee

Now that I get the purpose, I’m picking a pair of these up! Brilliant!

11/9/07 @ 6:23 pm (reply)

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wsukarebear

As someone who had a guest RSVP for 12 to show, with “family” written to the side as if that made it okay (jokingly, we figured out later it was cousin Chase), I HIGHLY recommend numbering your RSVP’s. We didn’t know it was Chase, as he’d written an alias name on the line. We also didn’t designate the number of spots. So, if we’d at least secretly numbered, we could have caught him before he came to us.

Seems like a great idea!

11/11/07 @ 5:41 pm (reply)

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Elizabeth

Here’s another site that sells them really cheap: $1.60.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.88~r.40312262

The site has a lot of great stuff AND FREE SHIPPING! But the stuff ships from Hong Kong so it takes at least 2 weeks.

Just thought I share one of my favorite sites.

11/11/07 @ 11:50 pm (reply)

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