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trav·el·er or trav·el·ler n. One who travels or has traveled, as to distant places. Marie sent us this photo from her trip in East of France. It depicts her French Ornate Vert journal in front of a citadel in Lorraine, France. She wrote...
Steven Spielberg's new film about Abraham Lincoln is set to be released this week and we wanted to mark the occasion by spotlighting our Lincoln-themed journal. Part of our Embellished Manuscripts collection, our Lincoln, Fragment of a Speech writing...
For our Fall 2012 catalogue we've made changes to three designs in our French Ornate collection. Bleu, Vert, and Violet have all been updated and are now available in newer formats. About the French Ornate collection: Europe was exposed to...
A year ago we wrote about the Brocaded Paper harpsichord that an Austrian instrument-maker, Martin Pühringer, had built. Pühringer took the Golden Fuchsia design from our Brocaded Paper collection of writing journals and incorporated it into the beautiful harpsichord seen...
Offering everything you need to keep life well-organized and in style, our beautifully designed 12-month dayplanners are the most popular items in our catalogue. Beginning in January and ending in December 2013, our planners are available in both Day-at-a-Time...
For our Fall 2012 catalogue we've added five new books to our popular Laurel Burch collection of writing journals. These new additions include an entirely new series, Laurel Burch Whimsical Creations, made up of two new designs: Ocean Song...
One of newest series, Ori, is based on the work of Yuko Nishimura, who fuses origami and origata in her art. This collection is made up of four designs available in the Mini format. The Art of the Fold Folding is...
Our newest collection, Nocturnelle, features designs that originate from an antique French binding from the 1800's. The original binding has a cover designed in 1829 by publishers A. & W. Galignani for The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. It...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in 1749, was the greatest poet, writer and dramatist in German literature and also an eminent natural philosopher. His astute sense of observation allowed him to capture in his writing the multifaceted complexity of...
Some time ago we got into contact with Stephanie Bolton of Incense who told us that, not only do the teens in her art/dance mentoring program use Paperblanks journals for their art projects - they also use them for...