sarah schwartz
To me, a gift is not truly a present until is wrapped enticingly. Ideally, I like any gift I give...
During this past *Noted, I couldn’t help falling in love with the Meet The Maker videos. These short intros were...
Year in and year out, my Sugar Paper x Target Holiday collab posts get the most traction from TPN readers. It’s not really too surprising: these are two masters of their respective domains, uniting for one very special collection as we shut down the year. Target understands blending timeless sophistication...
I used to say that greeting cards are the billboard of the American psyche, but lately I’ve been starting to...
I write almost endlessly about new makers entering the stationery community — and I admire the vim & verve of every...
This may not be a great time to be alive, but it is always great to see how makers are attempting to gently guide us through these challenging days with our sanity and senses intact. Take the new Calendar of Good from Free Period Press. Guided by the notion that...
Recently I was describing a few stationery makers I’m rather fond of to a non-industry person. I found myself prefacing...
Serendipity has always been one of my favorite words. After all, what’s not to like? It is the type of...
Back in August, I received an email from Yusuf at Galen Leather. “Hi Sarah,” he wrote. “I’m thrilled to be connecting with you all the way from Turkey! I recently just stumbled on your blog and thought it would be a great fit for a collaboration. Would you be interested...
NY NOW was full of design wonders, but for me, stumbling across one eighty five was something of a surprise....
One of the things I love most about what I do is that I never know what maker will materialize...
One thing that became crystal clear to me while at NY NOW is that there is no one way of operating your stationery business these days. Some makers have wholesale and retail operations, while others have wholesale and online operations and still others are strictly wholesale. Meanwhile, some retailers maintain...
