NY NOW
Spring may well have sprung, but all this week I’ve been back in NYC’s record February cold putting this post...
I never feel a work trip is really complete until I compile my Market Report, and my NY NOW | Shoppe...
Happy ’26, folks! Much of our community is prepping for or already experiencing the winter markets, but regardless of your travel plans, our beautiful winter issue of Stationery Trends is here to deliver a gorgeous glimpse of the freshest currents in the world of paper. Within it of course is...
At its core, stationery is all about discovery and connection, whether you are journaling or sending a letter to a...
Despite shifting from spring to summer dates, it’s still hard to believe *Noted is nearly here! The expo will run...
We put a lot on our stationery, but what about what goes into our stationery? As a child of the 70s, I didn’t think much further than my cherished Hello Kitty stickers, but I wasn’t working as a stationery market editor for very long before realizing that much of what...
Paper Nerd readers know that nothing tickles my fancy like discovering a fresh new brand at Market — and then...
The Winter markets I visited in January and February — Atlanta Market, Shoppe Object, and NY NOW — are officially over, and...
My niece, who just completed all her education and started her first “real” job — as a veterinarian! — recently moved into her first “real” apartment. When my daughter Veronica and I visited, I was suitably impressed and proud of course, but completely struck by her bare walls. “I’ll help you...
Before I started working my first annual Stationery Trends gift guide last summer, my colleague Carly McFadden pointed out that...
I grew up in the 1970s, when there were only two choices for gender on forms and ‘working moms’ were...
The Winter Solstice is officially upon us — which means half the earth is officially tilted as far away from the sun as it can possibly get. While Pagan rituals to commemorate this annual event included decorating homes with evergreens — think boughs of holly! — and putting up a Yule...
