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Write more, Love more!

January 21, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 18 Comments

Write more, Love more. This tagline is printed on the window of Shindig Paperie in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and what a great tagline it is. My new quest to write 52 letters in 2015 gave me the perfect excuse to visit. This well-curated shoppe filled with all things paper is located downtown just off the square. Downstairs. There’s something about a downstairs business (in a historic building—look at those bricks!) that makes for an intriguing shoppe rather than just another run-of-the-paper-mill store.

Shindig Paperie. Write More Love More

Oh my heart did a little flip flop when I walked into this place. (Dallas crafty obsessed friends: it’s like a cozier version of Paper Source at Northpark…)

Shindig Paperie

Cards and paper and pens and calendars and postcards and teeny tiny clothespins I’ve been wanting forever (because certain projects beg for them) and I could go on and on.

tiny clothespins

LOOK at this notepad I found.

Coolest notepad ever!

How do I love this paper made by Sugarboo Designs? Let me explain the ways—from the old-fashioned notebook paper it’s printed on to the pre-printed inspirational messages at the bottom. Each page includes a perforated stub. Tear off and scatter into the world as you please...tuck one under a pillow or inside a lunchbox, throw one on a dashboard or sneak it into a pocket, string onto a gift or hide inside a book, roll it up and float it out to sea. Anything is possible – Anything can be!

Neat, right?

Sugarboo Design

Three weeks into January, and I’m on track with my #52Letters project. I’ve mailed three handwritten letters:)

“Let your heart dance with pen and paper
Now fill the paper with dancing letters.”
― Debasish Mridha

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P.S. This is not a sponsored post, but I wish it was!

Musical Pairing:

Build Me Up Buttercup, The Foundations

 

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: #52letters, crafting, Fayetteville, letter writing, Paper Source, Scrapbook paper crafts, Shindig Paperie, stationary, Sugarboo Designs

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Comments

  1. Cat Graham says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:05 am

    OOOH! That stationary shop looks divine! I absolutely adore stationary stores and could spend hours there. You’re so lucky!

    I love your idea of 52 letters and sent my card off to you yesterday!

    I’m singing along with Build me up Buttercup and singing the Alto part since our choir does this song. Woohoo! What fun!

    Happy Letter Writing, Talya! Looking forward to your letter. It will make the cold windy walk along the highway where huge Mac trucks tear past, spewing me with salty slush (are you feeling sympathy for me yet? ;))to the post office all worth it. Bills and junk mail just don’t do it for me.

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    • Cat Graham says

      January 21, 2015 at 8:06 am

      OOPS! I think that should be stationery. Doesn’t look right unless the store is always still and doesn’t move. GROAN!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:30 am

      Yes, your walk to the post office sounds like a short story:) Glad my mail is delivered to my doorstep. Can’t wait to receive your letter!

      Reply
  2. Mark Price says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:25 am

    Notebook paper with perforated inspirational stub– very clever. Wish I had thought of it.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:31 am

      That’s what I thought too. In fact, I think that about a lot of things.

      Reply
  3. Colene says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:04 am

    I know you are sincere but perhaps your wish will come true after this very flattering plug for Shindig and Sugarboo. They should hire you! I am anxious to receive my letter from you along with hundreds if not thousands of other fans.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:31 am

      Thanks Colene!

      Reply
  4. Robin says

    January 21, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I’ve been wanting to go to fayetteville to look at their book shop that has old books. Now I will have to add this to my list of places to go to whenever I get a chance to go up there. 🙂 Nice post!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:32 am

      Are you referring to the used bookstore on Dickson? It’s wonderful! Thanks for reading/commenting:)

      Reply
  5. Dorothy Johnson says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    I love this post! The shop! And we have to go there when I visit.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:32 am

      For sure Dorothy!

      Reply
  6. Freeda Baker Nichols says

    January 22, 2015 at 7:40 am

    I would love a visit to that shop!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:33 am

      You would enjoy it!

      Reply
  7. Lyn Fenwick says

    January 22, 2015 at 8:43 am

    I consider myself a reluctant shopper, shopping for clothes about twice a year when the seasons change or for a really special occasion. However, how I miss the unique shops like the one you featured that are rarely found outside large cities. After you reach a certain age, your home is decorated with favorite things we no longer want to replace, and even your closet has old favorites…especially if your style is very traditional. But when it is time to buy gifts, wonderful little shops with carefully selected merchandise are the perfect place to find something special. That’s when I miss city shopping!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 23, 2015 at 7:34 am

      I’m not much of a shopper either, Lyn. Unless it involves books, plants or apparently paper goods.

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  8. Jeanetta says

    January 24, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    Sounds like a great little spot. I’ll be dropping in next time I’m in NWA.

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  9. Corinne Rodrigues says

    January 26, 2015 at 7:33 am

    I would have gone crazy shopping there, Talya! I love writing paper. 😉

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 26, 2015 at 11:16 am

      me too! I had to constraint myself.

      Reply

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