During May we’ve been collaborating with Collins on their #StayWriteAtHome campaign which is promoting mindful journalling as a benefit to mental wellbeing. We invited their marketing manager, Richard Sloan, wrote a blog post explaining their reasons for the campaign. Over to Richard: “This week (18th-24th May) marks Mental Health Awareness Week. And with the current…
Marble, marbled paper… and granite! We might be just a tiny bit biased, but we think this is one of the most gorgeous stationery collections we’ve ever put together… The stunning marbled cover of the Charfleet Book Bindery notebook is just beautiful and has a wonderfully tactile finish. A mixture of lined, dot grid and…
Our very first subscription box theme back in January 2016 was “Circles, Dots & Spheres” so we decided to (partly) duplicate that for our fifty first collection. This really is a big brand box. We started with two B6 dot grid notebooks, one from Leuchtturm1917, always a favourite brand with our subscribers; they’re a very…
Gold is the traditional gift for a fiftieth anniversary, so what better theme could there possibly be for our fiftieth stationery subscription box? We’ve featured several Castelli notebooks over the years, and chose one of their “Wabi Sabi” designs for this collection. Wabi Sabi is the Japanese philosophy of accepting imperfections and making the most…
Back in January 2016 when Rob and I were packing the subscription boxes for our first month, two things struck me; one, folding flat-packed cardboard cartons takes FOR EVER and two, how lonely our single file copy looked on its shelf. Today, that box – bottom left, “Spots, Circles & Spheres” theme – has 49…
From a children’s party to world domination, whatever you have planned this collection would keep you organised! We had been thinking about a planning theme for some time when the lovely people at Rhodia sent us an advance copy of their Perpetual Planner. Some things are meant to be… The stylish Editor’s Memo pad from…
It was an absolute pleasure to support Allsorts during 2019 and we wish them all the best for the future. For 2020, we’ll be fundraising for another Gloucestershire charity, Mindsong. Mindsong is a charity working in care homes, day centres and private homes throughout Gloucestershire, with people who have advanced and complex dementia. They provide…
Along with our sister business, Stationery & Art, we’ll be selling our gorgeous stationery at several gift markets in the run up to Christmas, so if you’d like to come along and say hello and solve all your Christmas present problems! Where to find us: 22nd November, 7.30 – 9.30pmLadies Pamper EveningThe Holiday Inn, Barnwood,…
Our May 2019 stationery collection was inspired by Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. A lot of his work, but by no means all of it, was in black and white and he is famous for his optical illusion designs. We reproduced one of his…
We chose the theme “Ruby” for our April 2019 box as it marked our 40th box – where did the time go? Castelli have launched several new designs quite recently, including the Harris range. The dark red version was the perfect fit for this box and it has a flexible cover, a first for Castelli.…
