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I often putter around the Land of Existential Crisis, wallowing in the stagnation of inefficacy, Naomi throwing up in the night and then Tuna throwing up in the morning, me feeling generally repelled ...

We had a Letter Writing Club at the shop this past week. What fun! It has been a long time since we did one of these. There’s not much to it, just coming and hanging out and writing a few letters. We ...

The first rule of the Tsundoku Book Club is to not talk about the Tsundoku Book Club.

The other day, I was minding my own business, doing my menial life tasks in the pleasant and solitary fashion of so...

I’ve made it through February, and I feel like I require several days of spiritual rest to carry on through March, my life force having drained out of me. 

Balancing life with dubious parenting decision...

We got a new line of notebooks in: Nakabayashi, a company from Japan which has been operating for over 100 years, creating office supplies and stationery.

The Yu-sari line of notebooksis the highlight, ...

There was a snow storm here in Toronto. The roads were perilous on the way home from Chinese class, which I feel earns me some sort of medal as a tiger mom that is usually trailing off at the back of ...

My life basically consists of following one or other of the cats around and hoping they’ll interact in some way indicative of the deep wellsprings of love within them both. Someone once told me it too...

Something new! 

Our newest collaboration piece from The Superior Labor is the A5 Zipper Portfolio, which has been some time in the making.

We recently got some new gel pens in from Pilot. Above, with the white bodies, are the Ilmily pens. And we also have a selection of the Juice Ups, in different colours, as well as in sets.

I brought a ...

And so we look ahead to an auspicious year. The snake! What could be more auspicious? 

As always, I have not quite followed all of the regulations and instructions given out by the ancient Chinese spiri...