Posts Categorized: Fun Stuff

Do you hate Papyrus?

Here’s a really neat Etsy product – a san-serif wall hanging featuring your favorite san-serif fonts (Futura is my favorite) made from laser-cut wood! For $60 from PepperSprout‘s etsy shop , ships out mid-january

New Paper Scrap Swap!

I joined Swap-bot a couple months ago and it’s been really fun. It’s a site that facilitates snail-mail swaps on a variety of topics – I’ve been part of two ATC (artist trading card) swaps, a small package swaps where you included one thing red, one thing blue and one thing yellow, and now I’m […]

Webster’s Pictorial Dictionary

I’m currently lusting after Webster’s Pictorial Dictionary by Chronicle Books. We have a copy here at the Paper Tyger that I lovingly look through – it’s a hefty little book, about two inches thick, and about 7″x9″. An excerpt from the back cover reads: “Featuring more than 1,500 engravings that originally graced the pages of […]

Yummy Strawberries!

I love small cute things and the alpine strawberries I’ve been growing the past two years totally fit the bill. They grow perfectly here on Cape Cod (did you know that Cape Cod was the top producer of strawberries east of the Mississippi at the turn of the 20th century?) which is fortunate because I […]

Cute Thank You Notes!

I purchased these adorable thank you cards from the Paper Tyger in Falmouth, MA – they are super duper cute! You can buy them on their website too – they are letter-pressed on 100% recycled paper and made in New York. The letterpress gives the card a nice embossed feel. The only strange thing I […]

Custom Fabric Printing

Spoonflower.com allows you to print custom fabrics by uploading your own digital images.

Rusty Blade

I use a lot of snap-off utility knife blades when cutting through paper and cardboard – I was surprised when I opened the latest package to find little crystalized patches of rust on the back of one of the blades. I think they look like cool cross sections of wood. Here\’s a good closeup of […]

Action Shots from the IPRC

Some scenes from the IPRC, a community art space that I spent a lot of time at in Portland Oregon.