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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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...