Camping Adventures
We went camping, and had lots of fun.
Camping is always more expensive and more work than I remember it being last time. I think to myself that we surely must have purchased all the gear we needed last...
Pen Pal Match-Up Spring 2023
We’re running another Pen Pal Match-Up!
We’ve done this in the past, and are following the same format. It generally works, although every once in a while someone gets a bum match, and for that I’m rea...
Camping Supplies
We recently went camping and here are a few stationery things I packed up. Packing stationery is sometimes half the thrill of a trip. We were only gone for four days, but of course I need to bring my ...
Idea: Using Foglietto Memo Cards as a Bookmark
One of my favourite uses for the Foglietto cards is as a bookmark.
In a previous life I could and did use anything as a bookmark: receipts, a torn-off bit from a piece of a paper, disposable chopstick ...
Life These Days
The other day, I took one of the kids to a birthday party and Jon had the other two at home. The birthday party was one of those where the parents could hang out and hang around, or drop off and pick ...
Traveler’s Notebook Olive
Traveler’s Company has re-released their Olive edition into the standard line-up, and we are all rejoicing. The Olive is such a great colour, earthy and warm.
It is so much fun to get a new notebook, a...
Sudoku Challenge
The newest Blackwing Volume has been released, Volume 20, and it is celebrating tabletop games. Fun! We play a lot of games around here, mostly board games, having not quite arrived to Dungeons and Dra...
My Favourite Correspondence Stationery: G. Lalo Blue
I have been catching up on snail mail, and really enjoying myself, futzing around with my stationery exuberance. While I have been, as always, sending out letters on fun Japanese correspondence, enjoy...
A Journal Prompt from Haruki Murakami
Another journaling prompt, one for ruminating on life. Not quite a prompt even, but just a quote, and maybe a starting place for something.
“What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We...
Special Editions from The Superior Labor: Portfolios and Notebook Covers
So excited and a bit bewildered to announce these special edition items made for us by the talented people at The Superior Labor in Japan, Kawai-san and Yoshimi-san and their team, created and launche...