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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...
With a new year comes a new awards season. I certainly can’t speak for anyone else, but I for one am ready to celebrate those mavericks who make the gift and stationery communities feel a little smaller, a little warmer, perhaps even approaching the feel of a second family. After...
Before I started working my first annual Stationery Trends gift guide last summer, my colleague Carly McFadden pointed out that...
Well nerds, I was planning to release the First annual Paper Nerd Gift Guide today, but life intervened in the...
I am finally coming out from the glorious design fugue state I entered attending NY NOW and Shoppe Object a few weeks back. Since I get visually overstimulated pretty fast, my MO is to take lots of pictures and make sense of it all back at my desk. There was...
We’re just going into production with the winter issue of Stationery Trends, and I realized as I was reviewing copy...
If you can’t already tell, I found my Summer New York market experience to be more than a little magical....
I’ve been totally in love with New York City since age 6; I still remember the moment I fell. It was 1976, the bicentennial, a very big deal. My father had taken the entire brood — my step-mother and four collective children, me being the baby — for what then...
The more distant NY NOW gets in my mental rear view mirror, the more I’m dreaming of February ’23, when...
I’ve been home from New York City for nearly a week now, and as usual, I’m still walking on air!...
So, full disclosure: February is my least favorite month of the year for too many reasons to get into here, but fortunately this February just flew harmlessly by. The fact that I had not one but two fantastic work trips helped a lot: first I went to NYC for NY...
