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The Letter Ledger by Paper & Type is back in stock! 

Fill the Letter Ledger with notes on your personal correspondence: incoming news, outgoing thoughts, and the stationery you’ve chosen to reply with. Keep addresses and birthdays handy here, as well.

The cover is available in three colors: olive green, speckled white, and postal pants. It’s letterpress printed with musings on letter writing and has a fold where you could tuck a couple of extra cards.

To those who write with a Letter Ledger by their side, what has your experience with it been like? How have you incorporated it into your letter writing practice? 

I'm pleased to share that Little Notes can now be found at one of my favorite stores: Anthropologie!

It's fun to think how Little Notes will reach the hands of an audience beyond my petite graphic design co. When I set out to design them a few years ago, I was inspired by forms and vintage fill-in-the-blank postcards. I wanted these cards to include only enough words to ease any writer's block and help make correspondence a joy, to nudge impromptu note-writing.

Since then, Little Notes have become a Paper & Type staple. I've loved hearing from customers about their intentions with these cards, ranging from writing end-of-year notes to colleagues, to asking someone out on a date!

When it comes to invitations, I'm often part of the early stages of a couple's wedding plans. Through conversation I observe their personalities and learn details of how they envision their day. Flowers, colors, table settings, bridesmaid dresses, bowties, cake, music — no detail is off-limits!

As the invitation designer, my work is about translating these particulars into custom designed wedding stationery, then coordinating production to bring the designs into printed form. Lastly, I package up the invitations to ship out and that's that, or, once in awhile for local projects, I have the chance to deliver the invitations straight to the couple's hands and to give a warm hug of congrats (a mix of We finished the invitations!, and, You're getting married!).  

For Tanyelle and Kenton's vineyard wedding in May, the Paisley & Poppies suite was redesigned to fit the traditional card format and to incorporate the couple's monogram and dusty blue. The talentedPresshaus LA produced the cards, and the bride sourced beautiful silk ribbon for tying and sealed it all up with white wax.

I always enjoy getting to see how the initial vision is ultimately realized, and especially how invitation details are carried through the event. It's truly a treat when the wedding photography comes in!

Photography by Rachel Solomon Photography. See Rachel's original post here.

dear readers, pen pals, fellow flower fiends,

i am so grateful for your support of my work all this time! i look forward to sharing the year ahead with you, and wish you a 2016 filled with nature, focus, and light.

addressing (and dressing) the envelope is one of my favorite parts of the letter writing process. sometimes it's the step i start with, addressing a handful of envelopes as way to remember which stationery to send whom, and as a sort of to-write list for an on-the-go writing session. once a letter's completed and sealed up inside, it's like a small gift, ready to be presented.

for me there's just a simple satisfaction that comes with addressing by hand, and i'm obsessed (i still find joy in addressing each and every package that ships out from my shop!). however, when it comes to dressing the envelope, to be honest i am quite the creature of habit (see exhibits A and B): i tend to stick with neutral-color envelopes, and i always address in the same way and spot. i do love getting creative with postage (exhibit C), but that's a topic for another pen pal post!

so, i leave it to my pen pals to demonstrate (ad)dressing possibilities:

1. alphabet stamps! for whoever's putting mail in the boxes at my post office, i like to think that coming across anything sent from margaret will bring a smile to his or her face.

2. i love the simple and classic look of a typewritten address. above, codi ann carefully traced over the typewriting on a beautifully textured envelope (handmade by share studios).

3. embellished addressee! how special to see one's name in script across the envelope.

4. the back of the envelope is where i typically write my return address and get particular about which washi tape to use. i love the artful way amy shaped and placed different patterned and colored tapes across the flap, and how julia used this space to share beautiful vintage postage from hungary.

join us at our next pen pal club meeting on wednesday, july 8. we'll be at the studio of paper pastries in downtown LA, with typewriters and other supplies to get you (ad)dressing your envelopes! more details and rsvp here.