Dear Everyone ~
’Tis the season for the making of cards, the wrapping of packages, the recharging of creativity, the stuffing of stockings...and the celebrating of paper and its infinite delights. Speaking of stocking, we have restocked several favourites and brought in a few new items. Read on, dapper wrappers and jaunty jotters!
1 – For wrapping: The beribbonment elves are assembling more ribbon bags, absolutely as sumptuous, silky, satiny & supple as ever. And our reorder of Cambridge Imprint Special Starry Papers is en route.
2 – For listing: A fresh supply of Heavenly Hahnemühle Housemade Pads are at the ready, eager to be of service and brick-solid to gift wrap.
3 – For corresponding: The season’s Dressiest Bundle of Stationery Joy is wrapped in crinkly non-Kodai Kikkō (tortoise shell) pattern, beribboned with Japanese sheer gold organza. The semi-vintage Kikkō sheet (14 x 20) is truly luxe and a paragon of wrapping virtuosity.
4 – For penning: Our array of Le Pen colours (22 beaucoup) has just been expanded to 25, with the arrival of: Light Mauve, Magenta, and Yellow Ochre.
5 – For gift-tagging: Bundlissimi include a range of paper weights, colours & textures, to complement any package. Waxed linen thread, available on handy 10-yard laundry pins in 30-plus shades, is a bookish way to tie on a tag. Washi tape can add a decorative border to the tag in addition to affixing the tag to the package.
6 – For sketching, doodling & drawing: Kunst +Papier sketchbooks are back in stock in their full complement of sizes and spine colours. I continue to use mine for all manner of media, and the pages take to them beautifully.
7 – For watercolouring: Hahnemühle and Kunst +Papier watercolour notebooks both offer heavy (200 gsm) snow-white pages. We have also brought in a new colour of Hahnemühle pages, a light kraft that we could call toast.
8 – For bobbling/baubling: Cambridge Imprint Garland of Bobbles provides a brilliant way to make placecards or party favors, or to slyly enclose a tiny gift. The patterns and colour ways are mixy-matchy, natchy.
9 – For collaging: A fresh supply of Extremely Exquisite Scraps are now in stock for collaging holiday cards, enclosing just-because, and even punching fancy confetti to grace your table.
10 – For cherishing: Several new books made by me are already in the shop, and they will be joined by a few friends in weeks to come.
11 – For noting: The Marvelous Margin Notebooks are fully stocked, including a new-to-us larger companion size (6 x 8). The spine colours (red, yellow, blue) provide a primary way to select the pattern on the pages within: plain, gridded, ruled.
12 – For affixing: Festive little Coccoina gluesticks offer a whiff of maraschino cherries while you work. And we’ve brought in a tower, a bower, a wonderland of new-to-us and old-favourite washi tapes. See Washi of the Season. Tip to the hip: Test your washi on your wrap to make sure it adheres. Some textured papers, notably Japanese, “rebuff” the tape (in which case, consider glue-sticking a postage stamp instead!).
’Tis three mailing weeks until Christmas. The Postal Service sleighs are already laden with holiday mail, so we suggest you place your order(s) at your earliest inspiration to avoid anxiety. If I can help you make decisions or plan your parcelizing, please feel encouraged to call or email. Myself or an elf will be at the ready!
Merry yet mezzo-mellow, Bari