Announcing the 2011 Butter & Egg Days Poster!

We're over the moon for this year's Butter & Egg Days Commemorative Letterpressed poster! 2011 marks the 30th year of the famous celebration and its weekend festivites. This year's poster is again richly designed and printed by CloMor Press (sustainable Mendocino County letterpress company). Featuring our favorite poultry and bovine characters, the poster carries on in the same vintage color palatte we've used in past posters. Celebrate Petaluma and experience the art of letterpress! The poster retails for $20. We take orders over the phone (707.775.4200) and via email (info@shoppaperwhite.com) and ship anywhere in the United States. 

Our Windows Have Gone Viral for Valentine's Day! <3

Lisa Kasch, our store manager, was recently featured in Felt and Wire as a guest blogger. Here, she shares about her experience in window design, community involvement, and the symbiotic nature of both. Huge thanks to Alyson Kuhn for this opportunity!

photos courtesy of Alyson Kuhn

Luxury Writing: Bonnie Garcia Handcrafted Pens

Bonnie Garcia’s handcrafted pens are already supremely popular amongst many Northern Californians through word of mouth alone. We are extremely honored to carry them and offer them to a larger audience. Bonnie creates wood and acrylic-barrelled pens, though exotic wood pens are her specialty. Praised for their beauty and quality, these pens will last you a lifetime. They are easy to refill and change-up because of their compatibility with Parker and Schmidt refills.

Of her process, Bonnie says, “ I start by choosing a special piece of wood. I enjoy working with burls as they tend to produce beautiful swirls within the finished pen. No two pieces of wood are the same-- even if they come from the same board. I begin with a five inch long piece (blank) which is an inch square on the ends. I cut the blank to length and drill the appropriate size hole for the pen after which I  glue a brass tube into the drilled hole. I then put the blank on my lathe and turn it, hand-shaping it with my tools. The pen is sanded in six steps using 150 - 1200 grit paper. After sanding, the pen is finished by applying sanding sealer, paste wax, friction polish, and lastly, carnauba wax. The acrylic pens are created in a similar fashion, except all finishing comes from sanding (finished with fine grit wet-sanding). The working mechanisms for the pens are chosen to enhance the quality of the wood and acrylic.”

Time to get organized

We all think of January as the time of year we start fresh and get organized. Yet, for many of us, the advent of 'Back to School' is the time that calls for organization and planning....

We are thrilled to be a retailer of the momAgenda line. Their planners, agendas, calendars, and home office organizational items have been much lauded by moms, students, and women around America. Unique to the momAgenda line is the products' ability to make sense of MULTI-TASKING. See below-- in the momAgenda Desktop planner, there are separate sections to keep track of your activities as well as each individual child. In the myAgenda editions, these spaces are left blank for you to fill in as you wish (think: "to-do", "dinner", "exercise"). Genius!

The line is, in fact, so popular with our customers and on our online store, that we are on our 2nd re-order (and we can't say that we are surprised....)! http://www.shoppaperwhite.com/Planners-Agendas-Office-Chic-Products/b/2337055011?ie=UTF8&title=Planners%20%26%20Agendas

Here's to getting organized!

Our Envelopments® Online Showcase

Our Envelopments® Online showcase is up and running! It's rather thrilling, really, to see a season's worth of hard work up there! As an Envelopments® Authorized Dealer/Designer, we are equipped with the tools, swatches and design libraries to turn your design idea into an amazing finished product. We have access to all of the Envelopments® brand product, so if you need to order through us (for those of you who are DIY-inclined), or would like to use Envelopments® in your Paperwhite custom print project, we can make it happen. Our brides and grooms have been particularly fond of incorporating Envelopments® into their wedding invitation suites this season, and we have to admit that the results are amazing. Take a look!