LOVELY THINGS: striped straws & monograms

Back in December – as I was putting together our bar tray – I was on the lookout for cute bar / kitchen accessories and really wanted striped straws. For some reason those pretty straws were almost impossible to find anywhere in Europe (at an affordable price). But then my search finally led me to Etsy, where I came across the amazing shop “BackToZero” by Lingke. Not only does the shop offer just about any type of straw you could imagine (at only 4$ for a pack of 25!!), but it also sells gorgeous wrapping accessories (which I used for Christmas last year) and cupcake holders, as well as wax seal stamps. I just received my second order from BackToZero last week and wanted to share this Etsy gem with you guys. And since Lingke saw that I blogged about her items before, she was sweet enough to offer my readers a -15% discount code: BIKINISPASSPORT

Happy Shopping 🙂

I also ordered a monogrammed “V” wax stamp because I love the idea of sealing letters with it (if I actually wrote letters …) and of course I had to play around with it the second I received it. I came up with the idea of making some D.I.Y. thank you cards and am actually pretty smitten with how the first one turned out.