Last year we raised hundreds of pounds for our chosen charity, National Star. It was an absolute pleasure to work with the staff and students at the National Star College, and collaborating with some of the art students for one of our postcard sets was a highlight of the year.
December marked the end of our first year of trading, so we wanted to see out 2016 in style. I’d be looking for an excuse to include these beautiful Castelli notebooks in one of our boxes for some time, and came up with the idea of a ‘Black & Gold” theme.
It’s a year since we launched our website and welcomed our very first subscribers! We hardly know where the time has gone but we do know that it’s been a LOT of fun! We want to thank everyone who’s supported us through our first year, particularly our lovely subscribers and suppliers. We’ve met some…
‘In Your Pocket’ was the theme for our February subscription box. I thought that we’d sold out completely but happily we have one left which is available on our main website. It comprises the following: Castelli A6 ruled pen notebook, Spotlight A6 plain notebook, 3 x Original Crown Mill ivory mini envelopes and cards, Tombow…
Back in July we asked students from the National Star College to create some paintings for us to go on our postcards. They chose to paint the buildings on the college campus to fit with the Architecture theme of our August box. Today we went back to the college to show the students their work…
Today we launched our corporate gift range of stationery at Connect Business 2016! We’ve had some spiffy new boxes made emblazoned with our logo in silver foil and we can fill them with your own customised choice of stationery gorgeousness, including leather notebook covers from Start Bay Notebooks, journals from producers such as The Stamford…
Today we endured enjoyed a photoshoot with the very talented Andy Hockridge of ImageMaker Photography. Neither of us particularly like having our photograph taken but we’d been asked to supply photos for a magazine feature we have coming out in October. Andy is such a good photographer, he soon made us feel relaxed and we…
Our theme for August subscription box was Architecture and we were delighted to include these notebooks from The City Works and RIBA. The City Works notebook has a beautifully embossed cover design showing well known buildings form London’s South Bank and the RIBA pocket journal wrap-around cover design is adapted from ‘The Most Famous Buildings in…
We took a different approach to the theme for our July stationery subscription box and concentrated on a single brand – Rhodia. Part of the Clairefontaine group, Rhodia is a French brand and is renowned for using one of the very best quality papers available, with excellent results for fountain pens. The collection included a soft…
Every month we showcase the work of talented young illustrators on our postcards. During a recent tour around the National Star College, the charity we sponsor, we were so impressed by the work in the art room that we asked the students to choose one of our upcoming themes and create some paintings for us.…
