Papernation

Our new look website launched yesterday! We hope you like it as much as we do. We’ve been busy over the past few weeks working on this project, with the aim of making the site easier to use and enjoy. Mostly, this involved a simpler layout, bigger product pictures and a shorter checkout process.

Our blog is having a fresh new look too. 

Please feel free to tell us what you think of the new look!

Cavallini’s wall and desk easel calendars have arrived for 2010.  Very early I hear some of you say, but we’ve been getting enquiries about them for the past month, and sold some within 12 hours of them appearing on our site.  So we held out as long as we could.

Cavallini is based in San Francisco and its business started with the supply of the beautiful wall calendars.  Printed on luxury cream laid card stock, each calendar has 12 colour prints based around a theme.  The calendars are generously sized and so the images are a great size and perfect for making into individual pictures once you have finished with the calendar.

There are 12 different wall calendars this year:  Birds & Nests, Farmer’s Market, Vintage Travel, Vintage Maps, New York, Paris, Italia, Botanica, Japanese Woodblocks, Russian Icons, and the two new titles, Flora & Fauna and Butterflies & Insects.

We have been stocking these calendars for a few years now and it seems that once someone has either bought one or been given one as a gift they come back year after year, sometimes for the same calendar and sometimes to try something new.

As well as stocking all the wall calendars, we also have the complete range of easel calendars which will sit neatly on your desk.  I’ve got one on my desk at home of San Francisco and I always look forward to flipping over to see what the next month’s picture will be.

The easel calendars are:  San Francisco, New York, Paris, Italia, Around the World, London, Vintage Maps, Butterflies, Animals, Birds & Nests, Roses, Japanese Woodblocks, Botanica, and the two new titles, Garden and Sweet Treats.

View the range of Cavallini 2010 calendars

Katy & June supply fun, quirky stationery to Papernation.  They’re  a young company,  run by Katy and June, who have introduced fabulous stationery from Korea.

We met up with them again recently at a trade show at Earl’s Court in London, which gave us the opportunity to see all the new stuff that they have.  For someone who loves stationery, it’s like being a child in a sweet shop, with everything looking shiny and new – notebooks, diaries, stamps and letter sets, retro sticky notes and more

Here are Katy and June,  June is on the left and Katy on the right.

Their new stuff should be appearing on our site in about a week, but if you’d like to see what we have already, then here’s a link:

Katy and June stationery

These fabulous note cards are absolutely my favourite thing to have arrived in store this week. They’re so bright and funky, you just can’t help smiling when you look at them.  I’m keeping a pack to hand for all those times when I’m in need of a card all of a sudden!

Susan Eslick’s designs are always so bright and full of life…I’m actually quite smitten with that whole look.  And now, I’ve discovered that there are duvet covers, rugs, deckchairs and all sorts of other goodies in the Susan Eslick stable!

View Susan Eslick stationery at Papernation

Now, this is just so creative….everyone has heard of origami, and I’d imagine most people have had a go at making a swan or something like that at some stage.  But folding banknotes origami-style – and making use of what’s printed on them is an artform in its own right.

This pic is from Fun Fever where they have some great face-themed moneygami.  Over at Commongate, they have a whole gallery of incredible dollar-bill moneygami examples.