books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
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…
Boo, by Neil Smith. Vintage Contemporaries/Random House Canada. Out May 12. Boo is one of my favourite books of the year so far. I was enthralled with it from front to back. I read it a couple months ago and I am *still* processing it and raving about it. I highly recommend it. Here’s why. Boo…
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…
From the crafty genius who delivers washi tape to you as Omiyage.ca comes a new book all about things you can do with the goods! This comes at a particularly useful time for me, as I’ve accumulated a box-full of tapes (a lot of them from Marisa) and I only really use them for a…
I am always on the lookout for self care and introversion zines, especially for the upcoming Self Care Package subscription service, so recently ‘Creativity for Introverts’ popped up in front of me! Here we have the introductory zine and the first in the series, ‘Understanding Flow.’ Michelle seeks to give support to “those seeking balance, confidence,…
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…
Let’s talk about book clubs. When you reach your mid-twenties, you may start to notice that everyone around you starts to talk about their book clubs. What they’re reading now, asking for recommendations for what to read next, the dish that they need to make for tomorrow night’s meeting, the woman who keeps picking the…