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Even if you know very little about paper (perish the thought!), Paper Mirchi offerings immediately stand out. Before I spied...
Howdy folks and happy Friday! I am currently in my new digs, still unpacking boxes and still unburying myself from...
Spring may well have sprung, but all this week I’ve been back in NYC’s record February cold putting this post together. I tend to get very overstimulated, very quickly at markets, so my strategy at Shoppe Object and NY NOW remains to snap anything that seems interesting and puzzle it...
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...




















