The Stationery Cafe

This week at The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative invites Jann from @jannplansthings to share her journey of bullet journaling, art, and creations in the stationery community! Jann is an architect by day, and crazy-planner-cat-lady by night. Her beautiful bullet journal spreads using watercolor had inspired many people to be more creative with their styles. We geeked out over the best...

It’s Happy Hour at The Stationery Cafe podcast. Today, April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellylovesletter chats about fun stationery items this week. We admire Kokuyo’s new notebook, and Pelikan’s Ink of the Year for 2021! We also shared some planner updates of our own: Kelly’s Nolty Listy, and April’s Thinking of You Book. We also can’t help but want to try out Stickiiclub’s Hanami col...

This week at The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative chats with a fellow stationery podcast host: CY from Tokyo Inklings. You can follow CY’s fountain pen adventure in Tokyo, Japan through his Instagram @tokyostationpens. An avid stationery user since youth, CY translates his experience and knowledge of fountain pens, nibs, and inks through weekly episodes on the latest trends in Japan....

Tune in to The Stationery Cafe podcast Happy Hour! Join April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters to talk about fun stationery and new things this week! We discussed new Taiwanese artists, 2021 special edition colors for Lamy, and we both shared our favorite things from our collection! We also looked at some tempting new pens like the Zebra Sarasa Grand LE colors, as well as ne...

This week at The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative invites stationery enthusiasts Chelsea from @thosewithwords to share her analogue journey in the past few years. Working a typical nine to five job, Chelsea embraces journaling after work as a hobby to capture and record all the precious moments in her life. She’s an avid user of Jibun Techo, Traveler’s Notebook, and Midori notebook, a...

It's the first Happy Hour at The Stationery Cafe podcast! Join April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters to talk about fun stationery and recommended items to start off your 2021 the right (or enabling) way. We talked about some new arrivals at popular stationery stores that are tempting us dearly. We also share some reorganization tips with new drawers and Delfonics utility ba...

In this week’s episode of The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative reunites with Phyllis from @misslingbloom to take stock of their journaling plans for the new year 2021! Unsurprisingly, we both have some new *blings* in our stationery lineup: ring binders from Plotter and Poi and Hun! From breaking into the new planners and updating their existing systems, we have so many ideas for how...

Welcome to The Stationery Cafe. Join April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters at Happy Hour to talk about fun stationery items! As the last episode for the year 2020, we decided to do a grand stationery run down: giving you our TOP 3s for pens, fountain pens, inks, paper items, washi tape, stamps...etc. Hopefully, this list is great for bother beginners to stationery, and thos...

In this week’s episode of The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative chats with dear friend Szetoo from @stickerrific. She’s a writer, photographer, artist, and owner of Stickerrific, a stationery and art supply store in Malaysia. You might also know her as cat mom to the adorable store cats at @lukeleiachewiehan. We dive into how she first started this shop, as well as her journey and visi...

Join April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters at Happy Hour to talk about fun stationery items and things we enjoyed this week! From Pilot’s new gel pen series to new color releases from Kyo-no-oto fountain pen ink, we have a lot of stationery items to catch up on. April shares how she uses her PIE international Letterbook for pen-paling and Kelly updates us on her Hobonichi W...

In this week’s episode of The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative invites stationery enthusiast Miranda from @havokrose to talk about her love for stationery and how she shares it with her community on Twitch Livestream! Miranda is also the executive editor of IGN, and has an equal passion for video games as stationery, and utilizes tools like paper and fountain pen to the fullest to do...

It’s Happy Hour time at The Stationery Cafe. Join April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters to talk about fun stationery items and things we enjoyed this week! We gushed about Lennon Tool Bar’s new ink and paper releases, interesting Mindwave stickers, SODA Clear masking tapes, and more! We also talked about fun activities to do during December such as making your own craft tre...

In this week’s episode of The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative chats with Taiwanese sisters Koyun Fan and Kochin Fan from @stickyricesisters, an online stationery store specializing in unique stickers and cards from Taiwan! The Fan sisters are each in different countries, but maintained their love for Taiwanese stationery by realizing this online shop-based in San Francisco! We talk a...

Welcome to The Stationery Cafe’s Happy Hour! April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters chat about their favorite stationery items this week, as well as interesting journaling prompts you can do for December and the end of 2020! We discussed the new Bullet Journal Edition 2, innovative pocket scissors, new Sailor inks, and much more! April also shares her special haul of Taiwane...

In this week’s episode of The Stationery Cafe, April from @penguinscreative sits down with the ultimate stationery enthusiast and Traveler’s Notebook user from Hong Kong, the famous Patrick Ng at @patrickng. Patrick is the founder of the Chronodex system as well as the force behind creative lifestyle customizations at Manual Factory at LOG-ON Hong Kong. We dive into Patrick’s tried and true Travel...

Thanks for tuning into The Stationery Cafe’s Happy Hour! April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters are here this week to round up our favorite stationery items this week! From Lin Chia Ning’s grab box to Japanese Ikemen (hot guys) sticky memos, we share some interesting Asian stationery. During December, we also share fun things we plan for our journals and stationery set up!

This week, April from @penguinscreative and Phyllis from @misslingbloom got together to talk about their journaling plans for December. It’s the last month of 2020, and we have some new things we’re journaling about, as well as fun projects to try out this month! From gifting recommendations to setting up our December Daily inserts, don’t miss out on this festive episode on ways to use your Christ...

Happy Thanksgiving from The Stationery Cafe! It’s Happy Hour and April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters are here this week to chat about our favorite stationery! We’re also bringing you some stationery news and things to look forward to, such as the fun Bungujoshi event happening in Japan, as well as special items from local stationery stores! This week we also went on a rol...

You’ve been waiting for this, we’re all waiting for this...the final reveal for our 2021 journals and planners lineup! In this episode, Co-hosts April from @penguinscreative, Phyllis from @misslingbloom, and Kelly from @kellyloveletters are all here to talk about what journals they are using for the coming year. We break down our core daily planners, as well as fun notebooks for creative projects....

It’s happy hour again at The Stationery Cafe! April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters are here this week to chat about our favorite stationery in the round-up this week! Our favorites include Traveler’s Company Holiday items, new pens from Sailor, and an interesting ink packaged so you can bring with you on the go! April got her William Morris Pen roll from Superior Labor in...

In this week’s episode, April from @penguinscreative and Phyllis from @misslingbloom chats with fellow journaling enthusiast, Tiffy, from @tiffybutter from Canada! Tiffy is the owner of Faded Chronicle and creates beautiful Traveler’s Notebook spreads using her own custom mixed media inserts. We talked about why Tiffy journals and her styles as it developed over time. Phyllis and Tiffy also have f...

Welcome to Happy Hour at The Stationery Cafe! April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters are here this week to talk about our favorite stationery in the community this week! From a crowd-sourced ink to a cool new fountain pen, Kelly shares her love for writing in this episode. On the other hand, April is resisting the temptation of another Delde pouch, while recommending her fav...

In this week’s episode, April from @penguinscreative welcomes back dear friend and stationery enthusiast, Nita, from @ablanknote to join her in a fun conversation about stationery and what it means to apply her love for stationery to her everyday life. From her travels to Japan to planning more camping trips during the pandemic, Nita incorporates her hobby of journaling into her love for nature an...

Join us for Happy Hour at The Stationery Cafe! April from @penguinscreative and Kelly from @kellyloveletters talk about this week’s round of up stationery: something new, something we own, and something in our shopping cart. This week April shares the tools she uses to print photos for her journals, and Kelly finally got the Archer and Olive Traveler’s Notebook sized notebook! We also may or may n...

In this week’s episode, April from @penguinscreative invites dear friend and stationery lover, Esther, from @esthermolinart to join her in a fun conversation (and a trip down memory lane) of all the fun stationery adventures that got both of them here today. Esther is a lovely person and through her passion for stationery, has opened doors to so many awesome opportunities with shops and stationery...