Camping Supplies

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 ...

 

May 17, 2023 — Liz Chan
Idea: Using Foglietto Memo Cards as a Bookmark

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 ...

May 08, 2023 — Liz Chan
Tags: Foglietto
Life These Days

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 ...

 

May 08, 2023 — Liz Chan
Traveler’s Notebook Olive

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...

May 08, 2023 — Liz Chan
Sudoku Challenge

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...

 

April 15, 2023 — Liz Chan
My Favourite Correspondence Stationery: G. Lalo Blue

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...

 

March 26, 2023 — Liz Chan
A Journal Prompt from Haruki Murakami

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...

March 22, 2023 — Liz Chan
Special Editions from The Superior Labor: Portfolios and Notebook Covers

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...

 

March 19, 2023 — Liz Chan
Riverdale Library

Riverdale Library

My love of the public library in general, and the Toronto Public Library system specifically, continues. Our local branch is the Parliament Street Branch, which is sometimes, some days, a bit of a hea...

 

March 16, 2023 — Liz Chan
Sailor LINE FRIENDS

Sailor LINE FRIENDS

The other day two friends came over and they were both wearing LINE FRIENDS t-shirts. Ah, the days when Jon and I were a couple that wore matching clothes! Now we consider it a lucky coincidence when ...

 

March 06, 2023 — Liz Chan