One of my favourite letter writing papers is this ultra paper that is thin Life Stationery, the Life Airmail pad.

This paper is just a delight – air mail paper that is a bit like onion skin paper, thin and lightweight, as originally designed to cut back postage costs while enabling the author to match more pages into an envelope. I like the very thought of stacks of letters, tied together with string, holding the story of months or years apart between two people. The thin, crinkly texture of the paper is a bit nostalgic, and you realize that’s the secret solution to my heart.

But what makes this paper truly excellent is the fact that along with being very thin, it is also pen that is extremely fountain, even with broad and wet nibs. The paper is really thin it is translucent, and yet i will use almost any nib and ink combination I have, with my letters and lines looking neat and crisp.

Alas, since the paper is indeed see-through, the backside of the paper just isn’t super for writing on, until you’ve used a supplementary nib that is fine maybe not a fountain pen.

This paper isn’t the identical to Tomoe River paper – it’s definitely thinner (and it has more show through), as well as has a bit more texture. It’s hard to catch a photograph from it, but it has a texture sort of like cotton paper while I would still describe this paper as generally smooth. It’s also more crinkly than Tomoe River paper, given that it’s so incredibly thin – the Life Airmail paper is similar to true onion skin paper.

From the left is the cream Tomoe River Paper, the lines are the guidelines incorporated with the pad to place underneath, and from the right could be the Airmail paper.

The paper is B5 sized, that will be a size that is great letters and notebooks, one of my favourite. I use A5 for thank you notes or perhaps writing to say hello, and A4 when I’ve got a lot to say, but B5 is a great size that is intermediate.

The best sized envelopes with this will be the no. 6 air mail envelopes from Life, which can be the best size for B5 envelopes generally speaking (why don’t more companies make this size?). These envelopes in particular are also thin, but are still quite strong. You are meant by this size can just fold your letter up into thirds horizontally, and never have to fold your letter vertically to fit in.

The greatest drawback for me personally is the fact that this paper is a little fragile, so if I’m writing a letter in stages, and need certainly to leave the sheets on my desk overnight or even for several days, they tend to have crumpled and show wear more easily. I suppose it’s even more reason to create aside a separate time for you to start and finish something, however these full days i’m wanting to be productive in all the tiny pockets of time i could find. Perhaps really, it is all the more reason to be much more organized while using the junk We have piled up on my desk.

After our hiatus in December, we’re having our Letter Writing Club again tomorrow night, Thursday, January 11th, from 7-9:00. We’re hoping to see some of you there! Now using the baby that is new things are a little hairy around bed time again, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed for 2 soundly sleeping babies so I’m able to participate in the enjoyment.

We’re coming up on InCoWriMo again, this February. It a good go every year, I find myself leaning more and more into longer and more meaningful letters with closer correspondents, compared to brief letters, which doesn’t lend itself to a daily activity while I give. I might, however, make things easy on myself, and possibly compile a summary of people to whom I’ll send a postcard or short note.

We’re slowly settling into a routine back here, even though there are a few big, sweeping changes coming up ahead of us, and that knows what our day can look like. Things sometimes seem like they’re needs to belong to place – dinner plans or replenishing stock after the holidays – and then sometimes I’m searching for renovation photos, find a folder on my desk top labeled “renovation photos,” and then open it and find it empty.

The renovations continue to slog along, with a road that is few. City zoning and permits and environmental testing and weird by-laws. Everyone loves this city, but sometimes the bureaucracy could be a little much.

We’re getting ready behind the scenes, do my paper for me collecting furniture, repairing treasures from unlikely places, & most exciting of all of the, sourcing a few new brands and lines when it comes to opening that is big. It’s all basically a jumble back here, trying to shipping that is organizing the warehouse filling up with elements of furniture taken apart and stacked up. You can also see a number of this furniture stacked behind the counters at our shop, such as this lovely library that is saran-wrapped catalogue on the right. It’s actually a vintage University of Windsor card catalogue that Jon paid an arm and a leg to have delivered here, and now that arm and a leg are just sitting inside our shop, operating as a really side table that is tall.