Currently Inked January 2024
This set of inks is available as a sample pack (limited quantities).
I’m back! Back in the saddle, click clacking away on my keyboard.
I haven’t exactly been gone, but the blog has been huffing and puff...
Happy New Year
Sending you best wishes for 2024.
I had meant to write this sometime around Christmas, this being our usual family Christmas photo, but life comes at you fast and I’m just trying to keep up. How does o...
We Got Robbed
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...
A Gift Guide of Random Things
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...
Yohaku Washi Tapes
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 ...
Late Night Journal Writing
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, ...
Fall Colours
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...
The Superior Labor Special Edition Portfolio and Case
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 ...
Scriptus 2023
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...
A New Franklin-Christoph Model 20: Amber
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...