WRAPPLE at PARCO shopping center

My dear friend @dollyjunelondon who is from Tokyo, knows the best places in town really, and she took me to which I think its  my favorite stationery store ever, WRAPPLE located inside the PARCO shopping mall in Shibuya.
The address is 15-1 Udagawacho, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

The store is located at the 4th floor of the Parco shopping center, its not too big but they certainly have the most variety amount of masking tape I have seen during my trip.
They have tapes from the brands MT, Aimez les Style, Masté and Yano design between others.

Traveler's Factory Narita Airport.

Hello there!  I got a lot of people asking me thru my instagram account information about stationery shopping in Tokyo, and decieded to finally update my blog ( I know I know, Im terrible with updating it) writing a post about the fantastic experience of going stationery shopping in Tokyo.
 I will actually be writing different posts talking about the different stores I visited, today Im gonna start with the TRAVELER'S FACTORY one at the Narita airpora.

This is gonna be a good month, I feel it!

The text is written with a Tombow ABT brush pen, this week I am gonna start posting  videos with some tips of  how to write calligraphy with this kind of brush pens, stay tunned!

I am back!, and this time is for good:) I have a lot of ideas right now, and a lot of creative projects going on that I want to share, so let's get started!

In the Video:
Nib pen Calligraphy, Nib used BRAUSE 361, ink used classic gold.

Handmade letter set

Hello! Long time no see:) I know, I have to become better at update this blog, I have a lot of ideas nowadays that I am willing to share.

 Anyway, with that said Im gonna be posting often with tips for everyone who wants to look, and videos, and answering lots of questions I get thru my Instagram account of people asking about brand of pens, brush pens, calligraphy tips, how I decorate my envelopes, create stuff with masking tape, tips about snailmailing  and so on.
Today I am just gonna show you a very easy way to make your own letter sets, takes no longer than 10 minutes and the result is pretty cool.

The only thing you need for that project are:
- A5 paper sheets
- A themed Rubber stamp set
- Black Ink


In that case I am using my Hawaiian themed rubber stamps from the brand world stamps, and a stamp with the word Aloha, also from Japan, and my favorite black ink, from Hero arts.

You can also add some colorful masking tape to the pages or just write in some colorful pen to make the pages more vivid.

Where do you write your letters?

Hello!
I always wonder where and when does other people write their letters mostly? I have always have jobs where I have had an extremely  amount of free time during my shifts, so I do reckon that I have always written most of my mail while at work. What about you? I would like to heard from everyone who wants to share when in the day you are most likely to be written and if you rather do that at home, while having a coffee on a cozy cafe etc?  Thank you for sharing!

My snail mail origins

My story with snail mailing started back in 1988 when I was 10 years old, and my first pen pal was a girl I met on a camping vacation in a small coast location named Palamós in the north of my beloved Catalunya. This girl and I ( and other kids) spent a whole month playing around, bathing in the beach and so on, and she happened to live in Hospitalet de llobregat while I lived near Manresa, the distance between both towns isn't big and trains work pretty well in Catalunya, but well, we were 10 you know!
It was so cool to receive her letters, always in pink paper with the Mafalda character on it.
Few years after I started looking active for more penpals, mostly from another countries so I could improve my then almost non existent english. I soon found a bunch of new friends to write letters with (you know, we had no internet back then, no emails, no blogs, no forums!) I found those new friends thru either music magazines (Kerrang!, smash hits, super pop) or thru FB's (Friendship books). I also started swapping actively, back then I love Bon Jovi (yeah... I was 14 and you know, we all have a past!) and there were a lot of girls (and guys) around looking for clippings and posters of Take That, Brad Pitt or something, and I had no use for those, so I would trade that stuff for Bon Jovi stuff.
I remember chasing the postman in my town, Pepe, during my lunch break at school to see if he was carrying something for me, no mail day always been a bit of a let down, still nowadays, 25 years after.

 With the years I started swapping decorative books and slams, which are very creative and very fun but also big time consumers s eventually I stopped doing both about 8 years ago.

I have met totally awesome people thru letters, there's people I have been writing with for over 20 years now, and those are true friends, I have also met IRL many many of my pals, and always had terrific experiences.

 (In the picture I am posing with my penpal, nowadays good friend Kimberlee in front of the New York Public library in may 2014)

Snail mailing keeps me sane and its a big part of my life.