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Looking for holiday gift ideas? Today, in Part Two of our holiday gift guide, we’re featuring some of the popular and beloved gifts at our shop that have become classics over the years. These are the proven winners that you...

Looking for holiday gift ideas? Today, in Part One of our holiday gift guide, we’re featuring some of our favorite new arrivals from 2023! This has been a really fun year in the shop for new products, from limited edition...

The holiday season is the busiest time of year at our shop! Kicking off with our annual birthday celebration in late November, the holidays are a flurry of visiting customers, incoming shipments, and outgoing orders. It’s a mad and merry...

In past blog posts we’ve written about keeping a commonplace book, a kind of information journal where you write down facts, quotes, instructions, reference information, and other ideas that are interesting or meaningful to you—a personal reference book filled only...

Fuel for learning, Elizabeth Zott wrote on a small slip of paper before tucking it into her daughter’s lunch box. Then she paused, her pencil in midair, as if reconsidering. Play sports at recess but do not automatically let the...

Back in 2021, we wrote about problem-solving stationery: useful tools that are cleverly designed to smooth away little daily irritations, the kind of small problems that are often invisible to us because we’ve grown so accustomed to them. Good design...

Notebooks get a lot of love in our shop, and with good reason. Delicious paper and clever layouts help us get organized, remember important information, and enjoy the act of writing more. But today we’re taking a look at some...

Every year at this time of year, our team packs up and heads to the Big Apple for two big seasonal trade shows, where we seek out the latest, greatest, and cutest in stationery and gifts to bring home. Last...

Late one night this spring, our staff got a message from a neighboring shop owner, letting us know that they’d seen something moving in the shop after dark. Victor and Jenny hurried to review the shop’s security footage, worried about...

When we travel for the summer, we all have things we overpack for fear of not having just the right item at our fingertips. For some people, it’s clothing. For others, it’s books, or technology, or yarn. And for the...

Traveling is a rich time when we’re suspended from the usual spaces and routines of our daily lives, from all that is rote and familiar. Our minds and senses are packed with the new: new foods, new landscapes, new schedules,...

Late spring and early summer are glorious in the garden of pens. Pens have leafed out and colorful blooms are beginning to put on a show, attracting pollinators and passerby alike. It’s the perfect time of year to look around...

We all see nature around us every day, but when’s the last time we really looked at it? Nature is full of subtle but constant changes that can teach us a lot about our place in the world, if we...

The words you write are the most important part of your letter, of course, but it’s great fun to embellish the envelope! The envelope is the first thing your addressee sees when they receive your letter, so a cheerful or...

"The Letter" is the third and final installment of Making Magic, a limited series of original short stories from The Paper Mouse team. We hope these stories will amuse and transport you.   The letter arrived on a Thursday afternoon, looking magnificently...

"The Library" is part of Making Magic, a limited series of original short stories from The Paper Mouse team. We hope these stories will amuse and transport you. It began by chance.  Francie was sniffing around the baseboards in the corner...

In an earlier blog post we wrote about keeping a commonplace book, a compilation of facts, quotations, and other information that is personally meaningful to the compiler. Unlike a journal where you write your own thoughts, a commonplace book is...

Every year in February and August, our team attends two big trade shows in New York City: massive, sprawling NY NOW, one of the biggest home and gift shows in the industry, and Shoppe Object, a curated gift show founded...

"The Ink Apothecary" is part of Making Magic, a limited series of original short stories from The Paper Mouse team. We hope these stories will amuse and transport you. A little bell tinkles somewhere as you push the door open. ...

We had so much fun looking back on the year to see which products you loved the most! We thought we’d share some of our findings with you. In 2022, our customers...

A little holiday tune by The Paper Mouse Team to help you celebrate the joy of the holidays—in stationery style.   Lyrics by Sara IsraelLettering by Yulan LiLayout and illustrations by Jean Gao Inks used: Day 1 - IWI Color of...