Archive for the 'Spotlight' Category

Angel Face Botanicals – The Dieline

Congratulations to Angel Face Botanicals for being featured on The Dieline.

The soaps along with some other great bath products are available on etsy. You can also visit angelfacebotanicals.com and sign up for their mailing list to get 10% off.

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Wooster & Prince | Amy Ormond

Amy Ormond began Wooster & Prince Papers in 2003  with the simple goal of fusing a modern colors  with vintage textiles.  Her bright  palettes are  inspired by nature and the  places where she has lived and traveled.  Now with the new Wooster & Prince website and her blog you can be inspired by all of here [...]

Monday, July 19th, 2010

The Pink Toast

Our friends over at  Red Bliss are excited to officially announce the launch of their new blog  The Pink Toast.  As custom invitation designers they have worked with the most-talented event planners and designers in the world.  With Pink Toast they are creating a place to showcase the talent, the musings and the personal touches of [...]

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

New Year Planner From Mibo

Mibo is a design studio based in the UK.  We specialize in providing surface pattern for almost anything, from teatowels to food packaging, notebooks to cars. We also have our own range of lighting and homeware products which is sold in the UK and internationally – these products can been seen at:

Mibo is a design [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Tribute | Angela Valente

We recently spoke with Angela Valente  who has been working on  expansive collage project  which she calls  ” Give Me a Treehouse.”  This thoughtful piece  includes poetry written by Angela’s  mother reflecting on caring for her beloved grandmother (her mother) who is 90.    It includes many papers she had and some she found at Paper [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Photography | William Chambers

One of our most interesting customers is fine art photographer William Chambers of Greenwich,  Connecticut.  Mr. Chambers’  has always had a fascination with images but his true passion  for photography began 45 years ago when a friend suggested he try it and he has not stopped since then.  He learned from the the best even [...]

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Marbled Arts | Laura Berretti

You may have seen the elegant  Florentine Marbled paper (traditional patterns or stone-look)  in our store.  Now find out more about the person behind these artisan papers.  She is the talented  second generation Florentine marble artist,  Laura Berretti.
Laura’s techniques are grounded in a tradition dating back hundreds of years.  She begins by treating the pages in [...]

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Campbell Raw Press | Hand Bound Books and Letterpress Printing

When you wish you could do something well and just can’t you just have to admire those who do and can…or something like that.  Anyway, what I am trying to say is Maggie Campbell of Campbell Raw Press,  one of our very talented customers,  just released her  new catalog of work and we love it! Maggie’s hand bound [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Chinese Paper Cutting | Pi-Ping Savage

We always love to see how our customers use the papers that they purchase.  Recently  Pi-Ping Savage ordered some very special rice paper and I had to know what she was doing.  When Ms. Savage was  12 years old and living in China,  she  would admire the cut-outs on the windows during Chinese New Year. [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Decoupage | Jill Barnes-Dacey

 
 
 
There is your grandmother’s decoupage and then there is Jill Barnes-Dacey’s decoupage.  I recently saw the Leporello Decopauge website and her work is amazing.  Jill lives and teaches decoupage at the beautiful Palazzo Emo Mazzei Capodilista in Rome and where she is inspired by the art and architecture of the ancient city. Her extraordinary works [...]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009