Chris Lykins

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area United States

Owner/Designer at Lost Art Stationery

Design

I spent four years working in a small stationery store in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Nearly every day someone would stop in and say, "Ooohhh...writing notes is such a lost art!" It irked me. Writing notes is not a lost art—we write every day! It's true that today's correspondence happens most often over email or social media, but we do write every day. The more we are inundated with emails, Facebook posts, tweets, and Instagram pics; the more we yearn for something else, something real. The more our mailboxes become filled with spam and bills, the more we miss the personal messages of yesterday. Remember when birthday messages came in the mail from a few, important, close friends? Today i...