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We have welcomed the Pentel Energel family to the shop! What fun!

I have been waiting for these pens for ages, Jon having required some encouragement to get going on this somewhat fastidious and haphaz...

Once upon a time, I held journal writing workshops in the Studio Shop. What a thrill! To be writing with people. Something I did not understand the delight of until the pandemic happened—or, maybe, no...

We are carrying Chicken and Tuna face stickers! What a world we live in.

As someone who runs a stationery shop, and therefore attracts all sorts of interesting stationery people, and who also has a pub...

It was back to school week, and if you sent someone back to school or if you went back yourself, I hope it was a great start, full of good energy and ideas and new relationships and community. Summer ...

I had a baby and got an e-reader. The world is upending itself, I’m trying hard to keep up.

We recently got in a delicious order of new books for the shop that I can’t wait to crack into, waiting for m...

We are so excited to launch these super special washi tapes designed by TheCoffeeMonsterzCO! These are collaboration tapes available through us and on her website(where she also offers so many other cut...

Life continues on its disaster mode, as evidenced by Caleb supervising baby while eating pork rinds out of a small pot while reading an overdue library book while his cello remains open, unpracticed, ...

We’ve returned from band camp, and, to my surprise and confusion, all the things that were on the to-do list before we left are, unpleasantly, still on the list. Were my stationery elves not busy doin...

The Eras are a series of special edition pencils outside of their quarterly Volume releases, and which celebrate an era of history in this famous pencil, and the

newest Blackwing Erasis one of my favou...

We’re going on a road trip! Nothing too exciting, just to Waterloo, where Caleb is attending a band camp. Caleb has been playing cello for a little while now, and he vaguely enjoys it, but the one mis...