Dear Everyone ~
Last week I received a call from Kristen Hermanny, who has the delightful distinction of being BZS’s Most Accomplished Shopper by Colour. Kristen is an avid correspondent, and she has been a customer since I opened the shop in 2015. In the spring of 2020 (at the beginning of shelter season), she had called to ask if I could assemble and ship a parcel to her “in the yellow family.” Well, what a sunny, golden opportunity! I surveyed the shop to see what I might assemble, and when I had gathered a nice assortment, I photographed the ensemble so she could choose what she liked. You can see and read here in more detail.
Kristen visited the shop twice last year by appointment. First, she focused on fuschia and other pinks, and then later in the year she put together an autumnal palette. I love participating in her chromatic delirium!
In January this year, when I was catching up with my correspondence (which you can revisit here), I sent Kristen a piece of mail that included two first-day covers from Switzerland. The stamps are postal related and two of them are in the teal & light blue family. Kristen said that those stamps had inspired her next colour collection! I promptly put together the tableau you see at top and sent a single, sumptuous photo. She selected every single item except the pencils (which she already has in hue-ge abundance). I’ve shipped everything off, except for the Cambridge wrapping paper “backdrop”, which I'll be mailing in its own tube.
Speaking of Cambridge: Our shipment of Cambridge Imprint notebooks had arrived several days before Kristen’s “remote spree,” and I was decanting, I discovered several—in three different styles—that fit Kristen's aqua-teal-leaf palette.
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Keep your Cambritches on! We have five new Cambridge Imprint notebook styles in a lovely array of patterns & sizes. The most petite are 3⅝ x 5½, and they come in three different trios. Each trio contains one notebook with graph grid pages, one with ruled, and one plain.
The petite pocket notebook, only slightly larger than the most petite, measures 4¼ x 5⅞ x ¼. It has 64 smooth ivory pages, and the book lays flat.
The hardcover books (4¾ x 7¼ x ⅜) come with a medium Cambridge Imprint label affixed on the front, a beautifully bookish touch. The 80 ivory pages are silky smooth.
The landscape sketchbooks (8¼ x 5⅛ x ¼) also have smooth ivory pages that have been thoughtfully “perfed” at the spine edge for tidy removal.
The scrapbook, the largest in the selection, measures 9½ x 12, with deep charcoal pages, a lovely backdrop for photos, swatches, collages, or white or metallic ink.
You’ll find details and photos of all the notebooks in creative action in their respective shop listings: A Cambridge quilt wilt keep your desk toasty!
NEW Cambridge Imprint notebooks
Writing write along, Bari