This paper is merely a delight – air mail paper this is certainly a bit like onion skin paper, thin and lightweight, as originally designed to reduce postage costs while enabling the author to fit more pages into an envelope. I really like the notion of stacks of letters, tied as well as string, holding the whole story of months or years apart between a couple. The thin, crinkly texture with this paper is a little nostalgic, and also you realize that’s the way that is secret my heart.

But what makes this paper truly excellent is the fact that along side being very thin, it’s also pen that is extremely fountain, even with broad and wet nibs. The paper is indeed thin it is translucent, and yet I am able to use just about any ink and nib combination I have, with my letters and lines looking neat and crisp.

Alas, because the paper is so see-through, the backside associated with paper is certainly not super for writing on, until you’ve used an additional nib that is fine perhaps not a fountain pen.

This paper isn’t the same as Tomoe River paper – it’s definitely thinner (and has now more show through), and in addition has a little more texture. It’s hard to catch a photograph from it, but while i might still describe this paper as generally smooth, this has a texture kind of like cotton paper. It’s also more crinkly than Tomoe River paper, since it’s so incredibly thin – the full life Airmail paper is a lot more like true onion skin paper.

The lines are the guidelines included with the pad to place underneath, and on the right is the Airmail paper on the left is the cream Tomoe River Paper.

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

The best sized envelopes because of this would be the number 6 air mail envelopes from Life, which will be the size that is best for B5 envelopes generally speaking (why don’t more companies make this size?). These envelopes in particular are also thin, but they are still quite strong. This size means you can just fold your letter up into thirds horizontally, without having to fold your letter vertically to fit right in.

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

After our hiatus in December, we’re having our letter Club that is writing again night, Thursday, January 11th, from 7-9:00. We’re hoping to see some of you there! Now with 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 fun.

We’re coming up on InCoWriMo again, this February. While I give it an excellent go on a yearly basis, I find myself leaning increasingly more into longer and more meaningful letters with closer correspondents, when compared with brief letters, which does not lend itself to a daily activity. I might, however, make things easy on myself, and perhaps compile a listing of visitors to whom I’ll send a postcard or short note.

We’re slowly settling into a back that is routine, although there are a few big, sweeping changes coming up ahead of us, and that write my paper knows what our day will look like. Things sometimes appear to be they’re needs to belong to place – dinner plans or stock that is replenishing the holidays – and then sometimes I’m searching for renovation photos, find a folder to my desk top labeled “renovation photos,” only to open it in order to find it empty.

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

We’re getting ready behind the scenes, collecting furniture, repairing treasures from unlikely places, and most exciting of all, 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 organizing shipping and the warehouse filling up with components of furniture taken apart and stacked up. You can even see some of this furniture stacked behind the counters at our shop, like this lovely saran-wrapped library card catalogue on the right. It’s actually a vintage University of Windsor card catalogue that Jon paid an arm and a leg to get delivered here, and today that arm and a leg are only sitting inside our shop, operating as an extremely side table that is tall.