Life These Days: Under Snow

Life These Days: Under Snow

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...

March 03, 2025 — Liz Chan
Yu-Sari Notebooks

Yu-Sari Notebooks

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, ...

February 24, 2025 — Liz Chan
Life These Days: A February Blob

Life These Days: A February Blob

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 ...

February 15, 2025 — Liz Chan
A Tuna Chicken Sandwich

A Tuna Chicken Sandwich

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...

February 10, 2025 — Liz Chan
A New TSL Collaboration Piece: The A5 Zipper Portfolio

A New TSL Collaboration Piece: The A5 Zipper Portfolio

Something new! 

 

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

 

February 09, 2025 — Liz Chan
New Pilot Gel Pens

New Pilot Gel Pens

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 ...

February 03, 2025 — Liz Chan
Another Lunar New Year

Another Lunar New Year

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...

January 31, 2025 — Liz Chan
Junia and Tunia

Junia and Tunia

Just wanted to start off the new year by sharing a small collection of Junia and Tuna together. 

 

Come look at my baby! She insists while cradling her baby in her arms.

 

I have to squeeze both of them toge...

January 26, 2025 — Liz Chan
Life These Days: A Chilly Forecast for the Weather and the Future

Life These Days: A Chilly Forecast for the Weather and the Future

Life is busy these days, stuck gloriously in traffic with the turkeys strapped into the backseats, wading through the jungle of sweaters and mitts and boots and books at the front door, occasionally s...

January 23, 2025 — Liz Chan
Opus 88 x Soupy Tang Mini Pocket Pens

Opus 88 x Soupy Tang Mini Pocket Pens

I have two new pens in hand, and they have been companions on this journey to start the new year. Two matching pens! Are they sisters? Naiads? Witches? All of the above, wandering through the house li...

January 20, 2025 — Liz Chan