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In honor of Diwali - which begins today - we're spotlighting our Little Ganesh Collection of writing journals. Diwali is "one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together...
Our Old Leather Collection, with its magnetic wrap closures and instantly recognizable gold or silver border details, is one of the foundational pieces of the Paperblanks catalogue. This season we are pleased to offer this richly saturated blue design...
It's starting to feel like autumn here in Vancouver, Canada, so what better time to get back to nature and admire the lush leaves of the Rocky Mountain forest while they're still green? Our latest Paperblanks Traveller comes from...
Usually, our Paperblanks Traveller series gives us the chance to live vicariously through the exciting and exotic adventures on which people take their journals and dayplanners. But, as this most recent entry reminded us, we sometimes forget to appreciate...
Keeping a dayplanner is an important part of staying on top of your to-do lists and appointments, but we know that not everyone's life falls neatly into a twelve-month cycle. It's for this reason that our line of Dayplanners...
Published in 1969, Maya Angelou’s coming-of-age memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was an immediate national bestseller and a critical success. The book, the first in a series that chronicled her early life through the 1960s, helped...
Marinne sent us the following photo from her trip to New Zealand. It depicts her Paperblanks Schiller, Letter to Goethe journal. She told us the following: I took this photo on the small island Waiheke, which is close to Auckland,...
The latest Paperblanks Traveller submission has our mouths watering. Earlier this month, Ines took her Embellished Manuscripts Poe, Tamerlane Dayplanner on a fantastic food tour of Paris, writing: Paris has always been on my list of places to visit; so many...
The results are in! To celebrate our 20th anniversary we held a contest asking fans to determine the top Paperblanks covers from our 20 year history of innovative design. Congratulations to the following winners, chosen at random: 1st Prize Winner The...
At the beginning of this year we featured a Paperblanks Traveller photo of Candace's Grolier journal headed off to Santorini, Greece. Well, Paperblanks have gone on a Greek vacation again, this time with Diana, who writes: I spent last summer...