Dear Everyone ~

Everything’s coming up paper! For starts, we’ve brought in a big bouquet of notebooks from Kiran Ravilious. They are petite (4⅛ x 5¾), exactly the height of a LePen. The 24 unlined natural white pages are lightish in weight, toothy in texture, and well suited for any medium.

Crafty aside: The cover designs all extend across the back. The cover is robust enough that you can repurpose it—not as a hat, a brooch, or a pterodactyl—but as a notecard, a postcard, or a gift tag. A slip of a tip for removing the staples seamlessly: Open the notebook so it’s fairly flat and you are looking at the “center spread.” Slide the actual tip of your Shipping Clerk’s Knife under one of the prongs and lift, repeat on the other prong. Next, flip your notebook face down, so cover up, and slide the tip of your SCK under the staple and lift gently. Voilà!

You can also make a charmola envelope (We suggest a true center seam, with a 2" top flap.) in which to present the notebook. It’s sure to find favour.

Paper Bird cards have been restocked, plus two new-to-us designs. Hang tags and pencils and tubes, O my! Scissors and stampers and birdies to boot! Hi-ho!

Also from Paper Bird... several beguiling landscapes by Janine Burrows

Notecards by nature artist James Winrow have finally arrived after a week-long birdseye tour of the Midwest. They’ve seen post offices in several cities, including Indianapolis, Oshkosh, and Oak Creek. They, and we, are delighted to confirm that they are now resettled and available individually, as well as in a set of six.

Kiran Ravilious
Paper Bird
James Winrow

Note time like the present, Bari

P.S.
Perfectly square pencil shavings (PS x 2) cards are up to so good, from a sapphire sea to a candle’s glow, from a tile roof to a party hat….

P.P.S.
Enveloped with curiosity about the patterned paper I’ve made the notebook’s cozy from? Next week we will be debuting BZS’s first workshop of 2025!