stationery trends
With a new year comes a new awards season. I certainly can’t speak for anyone else, but I for one...
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 form of a bad head cold, complicated by my quarterly magazine deadline earlier this week. Fortunately, I also just generated my very first gift guide for the fall issue of...
I think probably the only thing all Americans can agree on this week is that America has no shortage of...
You’ve doubtless heard of the famed September issue (of Vogue). Why is it traditionally so important? Well, as the seasons...
A while back, I read that J. Crew was bringing back its once-iconic print catalog — and I wondered if maybe, just possibly, print was coming back into vogue. Could the populace finally be sickening of screens?? Well, now that J.Falkner Cards has launched a new mini-magazine, J*F Quarterly, I...
My winter market travel days tend to be filled with rogue snowstorms and general chaos, while in summer I always...
I am finally coming out from the glorious design fugue state I entered attending NY NOW and Shoppe Object a...
As the first full month of 2024 comes to a close, I cannot be the only person feeling as though I’m languishing in a sea of gray. As if Cleveland weather isn’t dismal enough, lately a rather persistent fog has transformed my walks with Scout into a Sherlock Holmes movie...
I hope all you nerds are enjoying a wonderful Thinking of You Week so far. Mine kicked off on a...
No doubt many of you have already purchased a sheet (or several!) of the marvelous Thinking of You stamps. These...
Please stop whatever you are doing to give three cheers to Kristina Burkey. Not only is she the founding proprietress of the fabulous Calliope Paperie of Natick, Massachusetts, she is *also* the founder of Stationery Store Day (SSD), which rolls into its second year of existence this Saturday, August 5....




















