books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
This post is a little off-topic but includes paper things 😉 Over the holiday break, I went to British Columbia — Victoria, Sooke and Vancouver to be specific — to meet my partner’s family and also just breathe that sweet, sweet air. I was a huge fan of BC and their paper stores from my…
It’s that time of year again! Time to look over the list of books I read this year on Goodreads and remember what I thought about them. Time to think ‘why did I read that???’ Time to think about what kinds of books I want to be reading right now. Time to just talk about…
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, via Penguin Random House, out now. [I received this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Think of all the news stories you ingest about missing people or brutal murders. Do you ever think about what the families…
I recently took part in another Creative Exchange, which is a swap of motivational creative materials run by crafty blogging queen Samantha Dunne. You’re to stalk your match on Instagram, see what they like and how they are creative, and send them things you think will spark creativity in them. This is what I put…
Seeing as it’s now December, I thought it was a good time to show off what people got from October’s Notebook & Pen Swap! 50 people from all over the world participated, which was so cool. A participant received information on someone (their notebook and pen preferences, a little bit about themselves) and then went…
One way to my heart is combining the things that I love, so, Winged Snail Mail, a zine about mail culture, just fluttered right in and set up camp! Winged Snail Mail is run by Sarah Hoffman, a Canadian academic nomad who loves food, typewriters and mail. (Disclosure: Sarah is a pen pal / zine pal of…
I love finding books about mail out in the wild. So I did a double-take when I saw Write Back Soon! by Karen Benke sitting on a table in a paper store called Mixed Media I happened to visit while in Hamilton last weekend (great store!). I barely knew what it was about before I took it…