Letterpress Cootie Catcher
March 23, 2010
I just about died when I stumbled upon this ridiculously awesome letterpress fortune teller by Sycamore Street Press. Not only is it adorable and colorful, but the responses are hilarious. My favorite? ”Did you SERIOUSLY just ask me that? I won’t dignify that with an answer.” I remember these on the playground in grade school with boys’ names scrawled on the inside, don’t you?
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oh My goodness! definetly brings me back to Elementary school.
I love the sarcastic phrases in these! Perfect!
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Piper — Love that you had careers. I don’t think my friends and I were that far-sighted. Just boys, boys, boys : ) XO
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My daughter is at that age where they make them all the time! She has even done a few funny ones too – this was so cute – thanks for sharing!
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Just about died is right!!! How cute! A slightly upgraded version of the ones in our elementary school days.
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Stephanie — I can’t wait to someday have a cute little girl to make these with…ahhhhhh. So jealous of you and your adorable fam. XOXO
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oh i LOVED THESE!!!! we made them ALL the time. oh the days of playing in the school yard, no responsibility, good wholesome fun!
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Casey says:
I LOVE Sycamore Street Press… I’ve got their Peacock poster hanging in my kitchen :)
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Casey — I know just the one! Love Sycamore and love peacocks!
Sarah — I know right? Bob Saget, wow. Took me back : )
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I used to love making those back in the day!! This is such a cute idea, I’ve never seen a “professional one”!
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This is just fantastic! I loved making these with friends when we were young. We’d write our crushes name inside and then see if we could end up on their name. Awesome things like this never go out of style.
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okay, this is the best thing ever. i can’t tell you how many of these *( my kids call them fortune tellers) that i have had to make this year for my sons and their friends!!! maybe i’ll surprise them and put in the Bob Saget answer?!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE! This and MASH definitely took up hours and hours of time back in the day. It would be nice if boy decisions were this easy still ;)
This makes me want to figure out how to turn it into an invite. Hmmm.
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These are so, so cool.
Just the other day, I was talking to a bunch of international grad students at work, and we found out that cootie catchers are a universal thing- people from Saudia Arabia, China, India and a couple of places in South America had all made them growing up. I thought that was fascinating.
OMG, this just totally brought me back to grade school…we used to make these all the time! And yep, it always had boys’ names in it or we would have future careers…of course they were always the only careers we knew then…doctor, teacher, fireman, actress :)