If you have a long Valentine’s Day shopping list like I do — you better buy those cards and get them into the snail mail.

It’s not because I have a long list of secret lovers. I just have lots of friends and especially family who I exchange cards with. And it’s a pretty serious obligation. Diaper Diva is super competitive about getting her cards to our parents FIRST. So the race is on…

Who sends the better cards? Diaper Diva or Smartmom?

And I found out where the best cards in the Slope are: Scaredy Kat on Fifth Avenue between Carroll and President.

I haven’t been there in ages and it was fun to chit chat with the owners, Nora and Damond (pictured with maple syrup to the left)

That store has been on Fifth Avenue for over seven years. They were part of the first wave of Fifth Avenue’s transformation along with Al Di La, Eidolan, Nancy Nancy and, of course, Bob and Judy’s Coolectibles. Here’s the blurb from their website.

Scaredy Kat is a neighborhood card & gift shop located in the 5th Avenue area
of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Catering to the local community since July 1999,
Scaredy Kat began as a way to combine our aesthetics, experience, and creative
energies into one project (and to try and make a living at the same time!). At
the same time, we started a line of greeting cards to satisfy our creative side
as well as keep us busy.

Beginning with our first set of wedding invitations
in late 1999, we’ve grown a varied portfolio including hundreds of custom
products such as invitations, announcements, and note cards. We continue to this
day producing orders from 15 to 200 or more cards. Weddings, baby
announcements, birthday parties, holiday cards – you name the event, and we’ll work with
you to create a set of cards as individual as you are.
To help you find the perfect gift or card, we also carry a wide array of fun
and playful products you won’t see in every shop.

There’s a little something
for everyone here at Scaredy Kat, so come on in and take a spin around the
store. You never know what you’ll find!

Scaredy Kat has loads of great cards and Valentine’s gifts. I just love their retro, edgy, fun and wacky taste in paper goods, books, jewelry, objects, etc.