10/07/2026
🫶🏻Looking back at the past year while entering a new year and season in life today🫶🏻 so grateful for this life I call mine and I can’t wait to see what the next year has in store 🥹
🍂Experienced my first Pacific Northwest Fall. A trip where I got to meet a group of incredible small business owners and the trip that prompted me to travel more!
✏️Turned Penny the Pencil into a plushie keychain!
The original big plushie was designed for/after Penelope
💌Hosted many journaling events that grew our stationery community in Austin
👧🏻 👶🏻👶🏻Lots of sweet and silly fun with all 3 of my girls
👻Hosted our first eveningtime Halloween themed event
😭A bucketlist item complete - the BIG version of Sylvanian!
🎉Celebrated TEN years of opening the shop with a Paper Pocket (Polly Pocket) themed celebration
📦Shipped out year 4 of our Stationery Advent Calendar Box
🩷🩷🩷My heart grew multiple times watching their sisterhood grow
🍵A trip to NY and exploring Brookyln (I haven’t been to Brooklyn in years!)
🐮Met baby farm animals on a day outing and it was so wholesome + cute!
✈️Took Penny and the family to Chicago - of course we had to go to our fave stationery shop who opened just for us!
💍Celebrated the wedding on a friend (someone lovely on our team)
👯♀️The twins spent more time at the shop and it will continue to bring back so many sweet memories of P at the shop when she was their age. And I get to relive it again x2!
✉️I discovered my love on antique/vintage hunting but very specifically for postal/mail related pieces.
🖋️We grew, and grew our fountain pen and ink offerings at the shop!
🥰I traveled more than I had in years since becoming a mom and filled my cup so I could them pour into my girls at home.
📚The shop girls and I started getting coffee/journaling together when the shop is closed. Getting to know them outside of work has been so special!
🙂I did a mid year work retreat where I looked over the shop/business and worked on the next 12 months. Made some big decisions and changes + made space for new and exciting opportunities!
⭐️I love workshops and teaching them but haven’t had
