I found this tutorial on wallpapering stairs via the Door Sixteen blog.

I must admit, ever since I moved into this apartment I have been getting an unhealthy obsession with design blogs. One of these days I will have to post a list of my favorites.

Anyway, this looks awesome, and it is another one of those simple things that make me always think to myself “Now, why couldn’t I come up with something like that?” It’s just too bad I don’t have any stairs here to do this to.

The tutorial, which is here on the Sunset Magazine website, also has short pieces on wallpapering door panels, tables, and ceilings. From there, you can get an idea of how many things there are around the house to put wallpaper on.

Do I have the patience for something like this?

I was actually searching for a key holders / hangers / hooks to hang near my door because way too often I am rushing around in the mornings, freaking out because I can’t find my keys.

Urban Outfitters has some pretty cute ones, but they also had these LP Journals - I can think of a few people who would probably love one of these.

You can buy one for $28 right over here.

I stumbled across these wonderfully funny greeting cards today and wanted to buy every single one - but can’t find anywhere to purchase online!!

If you can’t read this one well, it says: “Say hello to your very own porn star boobs / Say hello to collecting minivan brochures / Say hello to your doctor’s fingers / Say hello to emotional breakdowns during cooking shows.”  Obviously this card is geared toward a newly pregnant woman and I wish I could find one to give to my dear friend Britt, who just found out last week that she is expecting.

Other Naughty cards celebrate growing up, getting married, breaking up with bad boyfriends, and appreciating the best friends.

View them online at www.naughtybettyinc.com , where you can also use the store locator to find a shop near you that carries these cards - there are three very near to where I live, and I might just have to make a trip!

Today I was browsing the Rag & Bone blog (one that I look at every few weeks I would say), and noticed that they linked to this site on September 15th because I mentioned how much I love their journals! I’ve purchased two in the last two months, and Christmas is coming so I think I will be giving a few out as gifts this year, so who will the lucky recipients be?

Something tells me I should update this site quite more often..

Thank you everyone at Rag & Bone Bindery! Keep up the amazing work!

Many many months ago, my absolute favorite journal makers, the Rag & Bone Bindery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, stopped making those favorite journals of mine. For a time I just didn’t know what to do. I had one blank journal on back-up when I learned they had stopped manufacturing them, but still, I was so nervous. What would I write in? I have been using these journals for the last six years - exclusively! - to do my journaling in. Sure I have bought lots of other notebooks and journals since that time, because I have just had this little obsession, but these books were my heart and soul, and I was crushed when I wrote to the company and asked why they stopped manufacturing them and was told, pretty much: “They cost too much money.”

Just look at their perfect binding, their thick, pristine, hand-cut white paper, those edges, those fabric covers!! How could you put a price on something like that? Currently they are only making the 6″x9″ journal, and selling them for $29.00. Am I imagining things or is that price lower than it was before? Maybe I am just so excited about having these back that I just don’t care.

I  still have about thirty pages or so left in the last one I bought, but by the end of June I will certainly have to get another one of these. Have to? Ha! I can’t wait to get my hands on another one! The only problem now is choosing which cover…

Pomegranate, Brown Garden, or Apricot!

VintagePaperWorks is worth perusing in its entirety.

Here we see a journal that was spiral bound with recycled Go Dog Go covers. These are the kinds of things that make me wish I was more hands on creative. How cool would it be for both of us if I took Elise’s old books and repurposed them to make journals she can write in when she is older? I am sure my daughter will think these are as cool as I do when she grows up..

This girl uses lots of old, vintage books and uses their covers to bind together new notebooks. She also uses creepy old black and white photographs, parts of board games, like Scrabble, Life, and Chutes and Ladders, and even uses some coasters from the Outback Steakhouse to craft mini-journals.

Custom orders are okay, and wholesale orders seem like they may be an option. This is totally the kind of thing I would love to sell in my dream store…

The Elephant Greeting Card set is awesome. I love the fancy, swirly, girly look about them.

These cards are blank, each one in the set is a different color with a different design, and the design continues on to the back, which you can’t see in this picture.

Check out these cards on Etsy, and take a moment to look at Laura’s, the designer’s, other works. She makes some amazing purses as well as great digital art.

And, if you aren’t as fond of elephants as I am, she makes giraffe greeting cards as well.

This pen is also from Botanical Paperworks, and I can’t believe that I didn’t buy it the moment I laid eyes on it, but I have been trying to exercise some self control when it comes to shopping online.

This pen is entirely made of glass and it is designed to pull ink up into its chamber and evenly write on any kind of paper. It’s awesome! It’s a real old school pen that you actually dip into ink!! It’s glass! It’s green! (Or blue, black, red, or amber)! It’s only $31.95!!!!

Check out these pens here.

Okay. I know this is just the beginning of Pretty Perfect Paper, but this paper is pretty perfect - no pun, no pun.

BotanicalPaperworks.com - Paper that blooms into flowers, notebooks that bloom into flowers, stationary, notecards, and invitations that bloom into effing flowers.

I am trying to hold myself back from buying everything, but a purchase is in order for at least these two things: the Think, Write, and Grow Plantable Journal, and the Plantable Mother’s Day cards. 

I can think of at least one great mom who would probably just freak out over these cards, and the journal? Well, yeah. That’d be for me.

I found so many great things to show today, I am probably going to save some for later, but this one can’t be missed!

First of all, why have I never heard of Uncommon Goods before? These are the kinds of things that convince me that the internet is a box of wonders and well worth exploring into its depths. ANYWAY!

This journal. This elephant journal, made out of recycled cotton. Made out of recycled cotton and stitched together with bright colors and bright papers inside. Except this isn’t actually made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton, remember? It’s a tree-free book, and only $22!!

I feel like I am not going to be using the best sentences today, because this journal really excites me. It’s excited me so much, in fact, I am starting a whole new category on Pretty Perfect Paper: I Heart Elephants. Mmm.