Our new blog! The branding process is always fascinating to me, so I thought I would share a bit of how we came to this design. It all started with an inspiration board: For those of you who have followed the Whitney English brand, you’ll know that I love the crisp, classic of black and…
It’s beginning to look a lot like…FALL! And not fast enough to satisfy us, darlings! We want colder days for cozier fires and comfier cocoa!
Monograms can be confusing. Here are a few basic tips to remember: If the center initial is larger, use your Last Initial in the center, First Initial on the left side, and Middle Initial on the right side. If the center initial is the same size as all other letters, list your initials as First,…
I don’t even know where to begin this story, much in the same way that I can’t find the words to explain how full my heart is right now. But the story starts sometime back in 2010, when Emily went to a Making Things Happen session and then came home to blog about it. I’d…
Last week we had a reason to celebrate. A HUGE reason to celebrate. Team English Paper Company shipped a bundle of albums by our targeted deadline date of July 23rd. By bundle, we actually mean gajillion. There were boxes, and binders, and samples everywhere, oh my. And not only did we need a break, but…
The best surprise arrived at my office the other day. I open the shipping box, and unfolded the tissue to reveal nothing other than my very own monogrammed Carrie and Tuck! Queue delight! Turns out that Greg and Jane over at Boatman Geller were doing some product development, and needed a guinea pig. Um, OK!!…
Methinks I need this garden loveseat, sitting under a white arbor, against a background of evergreen boxwood hedges. via Made By Girl
We leave, in less than a week, for our umpteenth stationery show. It’s the sixth or seventh–I can’t remember exactly, and I’d have to go dig through accounting records to figure it out. And I’d prefer not to dig through accounting records. I just checked out Anna Griffin‘s latest blog post, and was thoroughly amused…
Along with my obsession with interiors, comes a love of house, four walls of any kind, that one could call their own. My parents taught me the value of old things, the art of restoration, and the satisfaction that comes from exerting a little bit of elbow grease. When I saw the preview of A…
