How do you like your coffee? CastelliThe three designs in the Castelli “Tatami” notebook range are called Espresso, Cappuccino and Hot Milk. We chose Espresso for its stylish black and grey colour combination. You can buy all three Tatami designs from our sister company, Stationery & Art. Back Pocket Notebooks BPN teamed up with artist…
Our end-of-year collection of stationery we think our subscribers will love, but which didn’t quite fit in any of our previous themes of 2020. Papier TigreThis is a brand we’ve wanted to include for a long time but until recently wasn’t available to us. Papier Tigre produce a wonderfully stylish and slightly quirky range of…
A theme that doesn’t need much of an explanation…! BindewerkWe saw this lovely notebook and thought, “We need to find a theme for this…” Sometimes a colour or two is all you need to build a theme around. LegamiHello paper lover! We suggested to our subscribers that this notebook might inspire them to try some…
For our October 2020 collection we were inspired by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco art movements of the early 20th century. ClairefontaineWe got the idea for this theme from these A5 and A6 lined notebooks from Clairefontaine’s Neo Deco range, inspired by the decorative trend of the roaring twenties. The ivory paper is very…
Travel isn’t easy at the moment, what with one thing and another, so for our September 2020 stationery theme we took a virtual tour through some European cities. JournalThe team at The City Works produce beautiful line drawings of city landmarks and prints them on their beautiful journals. We had a mixture of Amsterdam, Barcelona,…
It all started with the Staff Room Fairies… Back in March a subscriber got in touch to ask if we could help his wife who is a teacher and part of a secret undercover group who deposit treats in the pigeon holes of colleagues to spread a little happiness and joy. How could we refuse?…
For our August 2020 subscription box we focussed on stationery from brands with which our subscribers might not be so familiar… Archie’s Calligraphy notebooksArtur Rzepka began his business by producing specialist sheets of paper for calligraphers, but has since expanded his range to include notebooks and stunning leather notebook covers. The A5 notebooks in this…
Primary colours and all the ones in between. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve painted a colour wheel over the years, so this July 2020 subscription collection certainly brought back happy memories of paint-and-paper based messy fun! We started with two products from Cavallini. First, a set of three pocket notebooks, each with…
“A Venetian morning is alight with marvels”. Our July 202 collection was inspired by the notebook we selected; a beautiful journal from PaperBlanks called “Venetian Mornings”. The stunning cover design captures some of the splendid daybreak palette of the ancient city, inspired by a Venetian binding for a Renaissance-era book containing two treatises on colours. The…
For May 2020 we collaborated with our friends at Collins Debden on their #StayWriteAtHome campaign promoting mindful journalling as a benefit to mental wellbeing. There’s lots to love about this Collins Edges Rainbow journal, and the rainbow page edge printing is one of our favourite features and we know our subscribers loved it too. We…
