Dear Everyone ~
This week at BZS was a veritable parcelpalooza in both directions, which is to say, outgoing as well as incoming. Our stock of Card Catalogs, which I posted about on Wednesday morning, sold out within hours! Every few minutes, my display of boxes on the shop’s center table shrank, somewhat like a melting iceberg. All boxes are en route to their new homes. If you have sent us a forlorn email or left a disappointed message—fret not! Fresh Catalogs are already on their way, and I anticipate their arrival next week. If you’d like to pre-order a box (or two), you can.
We received two parcels from the U.K. this week. Ruby has been out of the studio for the last couple of weeks, and I especially missed her company as I decanted the dozens of new cards. Oohing & aahing to myself wasn’t nearly as fun. (And of course I have missed her wrapping & parcelizing prowess.)
Parcel One contained BZS’s order from Paper Sheep (seen above and below), a new artist I discovered in London on our last visit to the U.K. Parcel Two was from Paper Bird, with several beguiling new designs by Janine Burrows and Tjitske Kamphuis.
Paper Sheep enclosure cards are as sweet as they are petite. Each charming little watercolour illustration is embellished with a teeny puff (as I like to call it) of hand-dyed sheep’s wool from Norfolk! As my postal muse enthused, O my galosh! The ovines are divine, the flora are adorable, and I’m cravin’ the avians! We are stocking eleven, rhymes with heaven, designs. Herewith the marvelous menagerie.
Continuing the whimsy is a new series of notecards called Bijou, by Janine Burrows. A pastel palette for flock & flora & lepidoptera. Seven (which also rhymes with heaven) designs that chirp for themselves. We have also restocked the artist’s coast & countryside selection.
Tjitske Kamphuis has added four new dreamy designs to her repertoire of notecards, and we have added them to ours. Seen here from top left to bottom right: Wolf and Night Wandering, Flights and Crows. We’ve also restocked our previous selection of these cards!
Yesterday, while we were writing this post, a keen-eyed customer swooped in and bought a complete set of both Janine Burrows & Tjitske Kamphuis. This gave us the idea to offer a little bonbon to everyone who scoops up all 22 of the entire new card collection. We've recently wrapped dozens of our preferred No.2 pencils in Carta Pura’s Varese patterns. We will include one with your order, wrapped, of course, like a cracker.
