Wonder Pens Camping Trip
We went camping together with some of the staff! So many of my favourite things joined together.
We went for a few days to the Pinery, which is a tried and true campsite for us. We went to the beach, r...
Foglietto Cards Are Back
Something new, something old. Returning to our shop: Foglietto cards. We have been waiting for these for a long time!
These are packs of vertical index cards, in A6 or A7, with different rulings includ...
Back to School
Back to school!
I have a thousand things to do and none of them are getting done, but at least the kids have gone back to school. What a ride. They prepared their own pencil cases this year, and I love...
Travel Journalling
One of the best souvenirs of any trip or travelling or adventure or season is a journal with your memories and thoughts and ephemera. It’s both extremely low cost (the cost of a notebook and a pen) an...
Life These Days: Guava
It’s nearly the end of the summer, and here we are! The above photo of baby Junia is a representation of how I’ve been doing on this blog: nonsense on the white page, eyes closed to reality, hoping fo...
The Superior Labor Part III: Kurashiki
And the final part of our adventures in Okayama: we visited Kurashiki to see their shop. The last time we came, TSL had not yet opened their shop, but had secured the location and were undergoing reno...
Night Out in Taipei
A random night out here in Taipei. We are living the high life! Without Jon, so it mostly consists of cut fruit in flimsy clamshells, noodles out of plastic bags, and this most recent late night out a...
Letters From Abroad
I have been writing letters from afar! I’d been letting more than a few balls drop as I tried to make my way out of the last couple months of the school year, which included my pen pals and correspond...
The Superior Labor in Okayama Part II
There is so much to share from our Okayama leg to visit The Superior Labor that I’ve had to break it up into multiple parts. Above is the famous renovated schoolhouse that houses much of the operation...
The Superior Labor in Okayama Part 1
I’m slowly making my way through the gajillions of photos I took while in Japan, and I’ve finally arrived at Okayama. A week and a half after we landed in Osaka, we made our way west to Okayama, where...