Field Trip to The Ice Cream Bar

We're lucky to live in one of the most food-focused cities in the US and it's safe to say that all of us here at Hello!Lucky appreciate checking out the many culinary treats San Francisco has to offer. This past Friday we closed the studio a little early and headed to The Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley.

The sweet ice cream and artisanal soda shop opened just a few months ago and we fell in love with the old time aesthetic of the place as soon as we walked through the doors.

The fixtures, furniture, and signs transported us right back to the 1930s and we can vouch for their delicious sundaes and soda drinks.

If you're in the Bay Area or planning a visit anytime soon we highly recommend a visit to The Ice Cream Bar. Psst! We hear it gets pretty packed on the weekends so it might be best to make the trip on a weekday afternoon.

The Ice Cream Bar - 815 Cole Street @ Carl

Lucky Friday # 25, Treat Yourself to a Julia Rothman Birthday Card!

Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the twenty-fifth edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please):

Mirabelle, Joseph and Mary!

We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Octo Sailors card.

Now for this week’s edition:

Design: Treat Yourself

Artist: Julia Rothman

Inspiration: A sugar smorgasbord from Swedish fishes to licorices, it's every designer's desire to depict the decadent-est of birthday wishes..

Who to send it to: Your sweetie, a sweet sixteen, a sweet tween or a sugarplum fairy queen (or king.)

Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: A menagerie of sweet creatures living on the big rock candy mountain: Chocolate bunnies, peppermint pigs, swedish fish, licorice scotties, jelly babies, gummy bears and... a candy ass?(!)

Favorite detail: We can’t decide if it’s a box of Andes Mints or Turkish delights! And the candy corns and unicorn horns and tootsie rolls and marshmallows and… !!!!

Why Letterpress: Because that's how we print our sweet greeting cards— letterpress is the icing on the cake.

Don’t forget to post your comment, and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you’ve won!

Sweet Treats!

We can't think of any better cure for a case of the Mondays than plates of gorgeous cookies - can you?  Our lovely Kelly has been baking up a storm lately and treating us to heaps of delectable goodies.  So sweet on mismatched vintage china, we can just imagine these pretty cookies as part of a wedding dessert bar!

Chocolate Chip with Toasted Almonds and buttery Shortbreads with Macadamia Nuts... and oh yes... dipped in more chocolate!  Yum, pass the milk please!