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We got robbed! It was terrible and confusing and shocking and tragic. Mostly just very sad. Also a bit confusing. People are breaking in…because they want…pens? Thieves? Want ourspecial things? They…th...

One of the best things about a stationery shop is that we have interesting and surprising and mostly useful gifts for people. A lot of general goods and gift shops have candles and hand-made soaps and...

We now have Yohaku washi tapes in the shop. I’ve been so excited for this, anxiously awaiting the shipment from Japan. I’ve had a moderate-sized collection of Yohaku tapes that’s been growing over the ...

Greetings from (one of) your favourite stationery shop clerk(s), from deep within her office/closet, cluttered up with treasures of various levels of objective value. I am hiding away, babies asleep, ...

In case you missed it, fall arrived. Fall! It’s almost over. Strange how that keeps happening.

The Toronto library has recently suffered some sort of cyberattack and the entire system is still down. It...

Another thrill! Last week in the shop we received another special edition version of our A5 Portfolio and our Pen and Wallet Case to celebrate our ten year anniversary, this time with a red stitching ...

Literally everyone but any of the Chans looking at the camera.

We made it to Scriptus and back, what a relief. It did look a little dubious for a while there.

It was a great day, as usual. Me and the ki...

Also new at Scriptus, but hopefully with us for a while, is this new Franklin-Christoph Model 20, in a shade of amber that F-C made just for us. Does it happen to match our Chicken? Yes. Was that done...

We are launching two new inks at Scriptus! From your favourite slightly unhinged shopkeeper and the extremely patient people at Dominant Industry are these two new inks that are inspired by our shop c...

Scriptus, the annual Toronto pen show, is coming up, October 29th, and I have big feelings about it: anxiety, nervousness, panic, free-falling terror, a bit of nausea. We have things planned. Stay tun...