Posted: 06/07/2012

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Elmo Pillow Buddy Friday Night Concert Series Giggleswick signing Baltimore Beer signing   Planning your next weekend getaway or a big summer vacation? Brighton has your passport to style with its newest collection. Read on for details, new gift ideas and see what else is new at Greetings & Readings of Hunt Valley!     Brighton introduces new collection, your designer passport to style Just in time for the summer travel season, Brighton introduces four fun colors and several new styles in its affordable, new travel collection. It's your passport to style, courtesy of Brighton. The black-and-white Lock-It Super Tote is the centerpiece of the new collection at $108 and comes with a small, matching pouch. The black and white and bold brocade Girl Swirl print is a sophisticated and worldly classic. A handful of new styles are available in Girl Swirl and other colors including the vivid Flowerburst, versatile Sprinkles and iconic Punch Love. See more of the new Brighton travel collection online and pick up your Passport to Style.     Get Carried Away with Vera Bradley The ultimate in travel, Vera Bradley's Get Carried Away Tote functions as your travel companion. A breakaway zipper lets you securely close the bag (like a duffel or luggage item) or leave it wide open! Tons of pockets (some plastic-lined!) and positionable shoulder pads make traveling comfortable and easy. Go on, Get Carried Away! $92 Size: 18-1/4" x 15-1/2" x 7-1/2" Strap Drop: 12-1/2" Browse more by Vera Bradley online and shop in person at Greetings & Readings of Hunt Valley.     Travel with a Cushie Sesame Street buddy When your summer travels bring you to a place where the air is sweet, bring along Elmo or Cookie Monster from Sesame Street! These unique Cushie Elmo and Cushie Cookie Monster buddies - with fabric eyes and soft red fur - are both fun and functional! Use the touch-and-close tabs on their hands and feet to help them sit up and touch their toes! Unfold Cushie Elmo or Cushie Cookie Monster, and lay them down to turn them into cuddly, extra-soft Sesame Street Pillow Buddies that are more than two feet long! $40 Print this week's VIP coupon and save 20% in-store on the entire Sesame Street collection: shop plush, puppets, books and more!     Save on invitations, stationery and more Ready to place an order for custom invitations, or looking to re-stock on personalized stationery? Save big on foil-stamped napkins by Embossed Graphics, or order embossed and raised-ink stationery on sale buy one, get one free! Choose a design by Birchcraft Studios, and the envelope printing to match your wedding, social or Bar/Bat Mitzvah invitations is included free! Set an appointment with the custom printing specialists at Greetings & Readings this month to take advantage of these new special offers.   Upcoming Events at Greetings & Readings   The Friday Night Concert Series returns The Friday Night Concert Series returns to the Hunt Valley Towne Centre this Friday, June 8. This year's line up features lots of new bands and some returning favorites including Mister Wilson and The Fugitives! See the full line up and learn more about each band online at the Friday Night Concert Series event page. Hoping for clear skies, Big Cam and the Lifters take over the Hunt Valley Towne Centre this Friday night with their lively brand of good-time, rock-and-roll music. The rest of the concerts follow suit, free to all, 7:30 to 9 p.m. every Friday, all summer long!   Enjoy the outdoor concerts, have a snack, grab a lemonade and pull up a chair courtesy of Greetings & Readings.     Cars & Coffee car show this Saturday Local car enthusiasts put their beautiful luxury, classic, exotic and modified cars on display every Saturday morning in the Hunt Valley Towne Centre. Visit Saturdays from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. to enjoy Hunt Valley Cars & Coffee. Finish up with a cup of coffee from Caribou Coffee, Panera Bread, Chick-fil-A or, once the store opens at 10 a.m., the G&R Café inside Greetings & Readings! For more details and amazing photos of past events, Facebook members can check out the Hunt Valley Cars & Coffee page.     Author pens adventure for middle-grade readers In local author Matthew Mainster's adventurous story for middle grade readers, a small country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is hidden from the rest of the world by a circle of unnavigable fog. It's called Giggleswick, and an unusual man approaches twelve-year-old Elliot Bisby and his family and asks them to move there. Before they know it, the struggling Bisby family finds themselves on a tiny boat captained by a man who prefers a singing parrot to a compass, and they soon embark on a journey that no other seaman could make and live to tell about. Find out more about Giggleswick: The Amadan Map online and meet the author for a book signing at Greetings & Readings on Saturday, June 9 from 1 to 3 p.m.     Local expert explores Baltimore beer Local author and reporter Rob Kasper visits Greetings & Readings for a book signing on the day before Father's Day, Saturday, June 16 from 1 to 3 p.m. Since Mary Pickersgill sewed Old Glory on the floor of a local brewery, Baltimore has been a beer-drinking town. Baltimore beer scholar and journalist Rob Kasper traces the sudsy story from the days when alehouses lined the Jones Falls to the tales behind the current crop of local brewers who are fermenting a craft brew revival. Join Kasper as he uses interviews, stunning vintage images and a few recipes to pop the cap on Charm City's brewing history. Find out more about Baltimore Beer online and order a personalized, autographed copy at no extra charge!     Meet local artisan Bryan Bornfriend, discover new line of fine, gift pens On Saturday, June 16 from 1 to 3 p.m., just in time for Father's Day, Jarrettsville artisan Bryan Scott Bornfriend visits Greetings & Readings to introduce shoppers to his line of hand-crafted, locally-made fine gift pens. Enjoy his work at the Bryan Bornfriend Trunk Show; from materials such as mahogany, Bethlehem olive wood, cholla cactus, brass and cherry wood, Bornfriend crafts these pens by hand in his Jarrettsville, Maryland workshop. "I've taken notice of the value of quality and strength of construction in a truly hand-made product," said Bornfriend. "Unlike an off-the-rack ball point, a hand-made pen makes a statement about commitment and attention to detail."     This weekend's shopping kicks off with the Friday Night Concert Series, but there's plenty more to discover at Greetings & Readings. Find lots more ideas at our website and we'll see you soon!   Greetings & Readings

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