books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
Snail Mail by Michelle Mackintosh, Hardie Grant Books, out now. Snail Mail is the kind of book us mail-lovers have been waiting for. It’s hefty, which you wouldn’t expect, as it’s not exactly about a million dollar-making activity, and really beautifully well-done. Snail Mail captures the aesthetically pleasing aspect of making mail as a hobby – how just…
Sea & Lake is a lovely stationery company based out of Toronto run by two seriously sweet and talented married ladies. Everything they do is better than the last great thing they did, but I gotta say, I feel like their Cards for Allies line is really going to set them apart. Cards are tools for…
Happy birthday to my pretty little blog! I can’t believe it’s been a year of blogging about my favourite things: books, zines, snail mail and crafts. I started The Paper Trail Diary for a few reasons: I wanted to ‘justify’ my spending habits (heh), tap into online communities for these categories in order to connect…
Today is World Stationery Day, as part of National Stationery Week (which is British, but whatever)! To celebrate, I want to show off some of my favourite stationery that I use for my snail mail. Sometimes I like writing in cards, but making them expandable, whether that means taping papers together to unfold like an accordion…
If you are the kind of person who spends time looking at all the greeting cards in paper stores, who knows there’s a perfect card out there for every occasion and who likes supporting Canadian artisans, then the Q&A Letterbox is sure to interest you! Queenie of Queenie’s Cards and Andrea of #365DaysofLetterWriting, two other…
Do you think you could write 30 letters in 30 days? Write On, a collaborative campaign from Egg Press and Hello!Lucky, challenges you to the task. The campaign generally seeks to promote the creativity, joy and connection you make through the act of writing a letter. To help get you started, they offer you a free…
You’re going to want to open this box of brightness. Gabrielle, aka The Green Gables, is an eco-friendly stationery designer from the UK. She’s already got a web shop full of gorgeous paper goodies, and now she’s started a subscription service called The Happy Paper Club, which will give you a bunch of her products each…