Bargain Alert: Fun Finds at Michael's

I paid my first visit to craft superstore Michael's recently at its gleaming new Columbus Village location (on the Upper West Side of Manhattan). While I enjoy browsing aisles of scrapbooking materials, in reality I'm not a particularly crafty person. So I was more interested in finding some inexpensive "ready-made" gifts, and I hit the jackpot with the above items. I found them all in the "Fun Finds" section near checkout. The monogram luggage tags and monogram notecards from the "Typeset" collection cost just $2 and $1, respectively; the Lilly-Pulitzer inspired stationery sets from the "Country Club" collection also were just $1 each (envelopes included). If you bought items like these online at other stores, you'd expect to pay about 10 times as much. I scooped up a bunch of them to use as teacher gifts, hostess gifts, birthday gifts, or last-minute gifts. You can't buy them online, but if you have a local Michael's store, look for the "Fun Finds" section; I have a feeling inventory changes frequently.