stationery
Currently in its 16th season, Shark Tank is an American reality show institution. According to USTVDB, it’s the 10th most...
One of the my favorite things about covering stationery is that every day is truly new. One week I will...
I have a love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with my email in-box, but every once in a great while, I get something that reminds me of the medium’s value. That occured in early January, when a paper nerd by the name of Debra Skinner reached out. Debra wrote that she’s been...
The Winter markets I visited in January and February — Atlanta Market, Shoppe Object, and NY NOW — are officially over, and...
So often the simplest of nature’s offerings hold the most promise. So while we’ve all looked at — and most likely...
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...
I haven’t walked the winter markets yet, so this is something of a hunch, but if I had to pick...
Happy New Year, nerds! For me, a fresh new year means fresh new brands to discover and enjoy — and...
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...
Roughly a year or so back, Biely & Shoaf Co. began sponsoring my Card Wall. That felt like an immense...
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...
