Valley Kids on Marvelous Mommies

Massachusetts paper Valley Kids recently featured Marvelous Mommies and our new cards. Check out the article here: New line of cards celebrates life with kids.

n western Massachusetts, the cards are carried by Cedar's Chest Kids in Northampton and Female Spirit in Easthampton.

Welcome to Calla Lillies of Sackets Harbor

Northern NY fans can now pick up their cards direct from Calla Lillies in Sackets Harbor, NY. The store features higher end baby apparel and gifts as well as an excellent variety of local goods, including NY State Maple Syrup and custom designer jewelry.

Welcome!

Where do you get your ideas?

Marvelous Mommies cards are capturing a good bit of attention lately because they come from experience. Apparently, there's a trend afoot called "reality-based" greeting cards, and naturally, we fit right in. While it wasn't our intent to surf a trend, we're certainly grateful for it.

As moms, our kids provide the substance for all of our cards. Some cards, like Military Miss You, come from the empathy we feel for other parents.

Stay tuned in the coming months as we release a bunch of new cards. In addition, we'll be welcoming a few new retailers to our ever-growing family of marvelous merchants.

Marvelous Mommies Online Store is Open

Marvelous Mommies cards are now available via our brand new online store!

If there's not a retailer near you, you can now purchase our cards in sets online. Our Christmas cards are even available for those of you who get things done early (or take months to get a single task done... hey, we have kids).

Thanks again for your continued support!

Love What You've Done - Card Inspirations

Baby proofing is usually something that happens over time. Most new parents make an effort to rid their home of obviously dangerous stuff for babies, like, say, the power strip that holds plugs for the television, the Wii, the DVD player and the PS2. Such things are tucked safely away, sharp corners are removed or buffered, and we prepare a place for the babe to come.

Gradually, said babe starts to crawl and to walk and everything is fair game. EVERYTHING. DVD players are stuffed with all kinds of pieces and parts. Couch cushions are removed, stacked and arranged into forts.

Anything that is within reach becomes a potential toy or target depending on the babe's mood.

"We should just bolt it to the wall, about five feet up," I said to my husband. It totally made sense at the time!

Judging by the response to the card - including a LOUIE award nomination - I'm not the only one who's had such a thought.

Marvelous Mommies Adds New Cards!

Greeting card company Marvelous Mommies recently added 20 new greeting cards to its existing line of cards which includes a card nominated for the prestigious LOUIE award. Marvelous Mommies creates and distributes a line of cards that celebrate life with children in all its phases from birth to adoption to the terrible twos. The company launched in January 2007.

Among the company’s new offerings is a card showing support for our soldiers overseas and the families they leave behind. Titled, “Military Miss You”, the card shows a child sleeping with a photograph of his soldier father lying next to him on the pillow.

“The card touched a chord with everyone who’s seen it,” says Kelly Minton, marketing director for Marvelous Mommies.

Brathwaite, co-designer and writer for the greeting cards, said she was inspired to create the card by the many military families she encounters. “We live in a military town,” said Brathwaite, of Savannah, GA, “and you can’t help but feel for these families. Naturally, it was a sentiment we just had to add.”

Other new cards target those having twins, mothers leaving their child at day care for the first time and those trying to potty train their children. “Like the rest of our line, the cards are for moms by moms,” says Minton.

Brathwaite, a mother of 3, and Minton, a mother of 1, launched Marvelous Mommies along with comic book artist Sean Wang in 2007 after testing their cards and ideas for months. Together, the three work to capture the unique experience of raising children with humor and compassion.

Marvelous Mommies products are available at select retailers or on the web at http://www.marvelousmommies.com.

What a whirlwind!

Our cards received a lot of attention at the National Stationary Show, and show follow up has kept us busy for quite a while! We're looking forward to future shows, and welcome retail, wholesale, license and rep inquiries.