you know the holidays are coming when we have piles of paper in both the bindery and the print studio. sheets of handmade paper that have just been peeled. paper that is getting trimmed down. paper that is being printed. paper that is being die cut. boxes being shipped out day after day. yes the [...]

here is a new piece we just finished! it was a long time in the making but i think it was well worth the wait. what better way to promote your company or event that you are going green then to use plantable paper for your packaging! this bamboo plate was wrapped with our handmade [...]

Its almost October, and for those of you that aren’t privy to the Porridge Papers history, we’ll be celebrating our 16th year of sweet success next month. All month long we’ll be offering 16% off cards and paper goodies in the store! We’re also working hard to get a few new products launched by the [...]

Hello Hello! It’s been a minute! I am happy to say that I am recovering nicely from the cold that wiped me out earlier this week. One thing that a cold is good for (if anything) is giving you time to lay around and let your mind wonder. After doing a lot of poking around [...]

after months in the making we finally mailed the save the dates! although there may be a few stragglers to go, there out there! And whats this for? porridge papers is turning 16 years old this october! in honor of that feat of accomplishment we are having a super sweet sixteen party in all the [...]

well this will have been the most time consuming save the date we have ever done! of course it is for us so that means we must make it as imposible to produce as we can. 2 color letterpress with an overlay of glitter on one of the passes plus rounded corners with glitter edging! [...]

the mice will play! Christopher is on vacation! That means that I’M in charge until he gets back on Friday (he was gone all last week too)! While the radio may be a little louder and the music playing may be everything that he can’t stand to listen to when he’s here, we’re still cranking [...]

back in october we got an order to produce 2,163,000 cards for a promotion for kraft foods. it was embedded with lettuce seeds and then attached to the inside page of a magazine. what was i thinking, how could i get it done, what would it take? looking back to an october post….. “2,851,200 square [...]

As the exhilarant chords of “The Final Countdown” echo through the mill, I couldn’t help but reflect on the last several months here. Sadly, today will be the last day for Katherine, one of our papermakers who has been on since the beginning of the Kraft adventure. She is just the first of a few [...]