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12/25/2021

Candy Cane Crush by https://www.instagram.com/huesbymle/

12/25/2021

Pinetone by https://www.instagram.com/huesbymle/ 🌲

12/24/2021

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12/09/2021

2022 color was announced today, but we love the 2021 color combo

PANTONE COLOR OF THE YEAR 2021

PANTONE 17-5104 ULTIMATE GRAY + PANTONE 13-0647 ILLUMINATING 🤍💛

A marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting.

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04/04/2021

Hope your Easter is colorful!

Hi peeps! 🐥🐰

03/08/2021

Occasionette is a fantastic area store, with good insight into A recent industry bankruptcy. Shop Hopwell’s local card shops dandelion wishes and twine.

Hi everyone! I wanted to take a moment to chat about what is going on with Paper Source and the independent stationery community right now. You may have heard that Paper Source declared bankruptcy last week. The most upsetting part is prior to filing, Paper Source placed massive orders with hundreds of card makers (the same makers we buy from for our shops) and rushed ship dates so orders would arrive before they declared, to bolster assets at the time they filed.

Many of you know that until a few years ago in addition to running the shops, I was also a maker, selling tea towels wholesale, mostly to small shops around the country, but also to big retailers like Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom, Anthropologie, and, yes, Paper Source. I will tell you that as a maker, orders from national retailers require lots of resources - you do whatever you can to order materials, you put in all the extra hours you need to ship on time, you do so much paperwork on top of the work that it takes to produce the order. Fulfilling an order like the ones Paper Source placed these past few weeks is a beast. But you do it because you believe it’s good and right for your business, even though maybe they negotiated some kind of discount or the deadline seems unreasonable, and you do it on good faith that you’ll get paid in 60 or 90 days because that’s how these orders work. For me it felt like a huge accomplishment, not only getting each of those orders out, but just getting those orders in the first place.

Our hearts and minds are with our maker friends right now. We are doing what we can - placing orders with the small businesses who were taken advantage of by Paper Source. I’ve tagged many of them here if you want to support them directly.

I really wanted to take a moment to thank you for all your support of our shop over the years. We aren’t a chain of 158 stores, like Paper Source, but we have three locations and a webshop and we’re able to place orders on a regular basis with hundreds of small maker businesses around the country every month. And that’s because of you. So thank you for helping us support our friends and fellow makers. Shopping small matters. 💕

02/14/2021

What a lovely tradition, would you accept an engagement spoon?

This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.

01/01/2021

Happy New Year! Whew!

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12/23/2020

If you saw this image online yesterday, please remember that it was made by real people (us!) and it is a real product that you can actually buy to support a small business (again, us!). This image was shared by thousands of people over multiple platforms and it resulted in exactly zero sales for us.

Please remember to credit artists when sharing their work. If you don't know the source, take a second before reposting to find out where it came from. The same internet that makes it easy for you to repost something also makes it pretty darn easy to find out where that thing came from. This year has been hard enough for small businesses and artists without having to deal with missed opportunities like these. Thanks to all of you who have purchased this and other cards from us this year!

Illustration by Crow B. Rising, text and printing by Power and Light Press

12/18/2020

I want to send out an announcement about my daughter's wedding, but I want to include a simple statement of why the recipient was not invited due to concerns about covid. Can you help me with some covid wedding announcement wording examples?

12/09/2020

We’ve loved these colors together for years! Nice choice

PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, a marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting.

Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power.

Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation.
These two independent colors that come together to create an aspirational color pairing, conjoining deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the optimistic promise of a sunshine filled day.

Visit pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2021 to discover more.

12/04/2020

Bright, bold colors grab your attention for the NAMI fundraiser for 2020

Save the date! Night IN With NAMI is happening on Thursday, December 17th in a new online format. Join us for our annual benefit gala where we will be honoring , among others. Head to https://conta.cc/37hc6gV for more info!