Attention paper lovers! You know that bag we gave away at our party a couple of weeks ago? The one that’s filled with amazing letterpressed and handmade goodies? We know that you were sitting around wishing you had been here to get your hands on one of these sweet little prizes. Well… it’s your lucky day!

We’re going to be giving away two of our awesome goody bags, one through the blog and one through our Facebook page. The only question is: What is it worth to you? I don’t mean how much are you willing to spend… but, rather, what are you willing to do? Bake us cookies? Send New Mexican food? Burst in the door with song and dance? Send us one of your handmade greeting cards? Tell us a joke? You name it- and be creative! The most creative answers will win a bag!

If you’d like to see photos of the individual pieces in the bag visit our Flickr page. Remember, you must comment on *this* blog post to enter through the blog, and comment on our Facebook page to enter there. No duplicate entries, please.

We’ll select the winners on November 9th. Aaaaaaaand GO!

We’re not the only one’s giving them away, either! Check out what Richelle Albrecht over at Girl Metro in Chicago is saying on her Blog. She made the trip all the way from Chicago to celebrate with us, so we just had to make sure she could share with her fans too! (even if she didn’t want to part with the extra bag)

Thanks Richelle!

I’m sure some of you have been to our sister site, www.plantableseedpaper.com. After doing the huge makeover on our main site, we just didn’t feel right leaving plantableseedpaper the way it was. Not that there was anything wrong with it… but, well… it just wasn’t as shnazzy. so here you have it!

Hooray!

And since we put on our Sweet 16 party we’ve had a number of people tell us that we should go into the event planning business. Apparently, we put on a kickin’ shindig! It was so fun that our friends over at Nebraska Wedding Day just had to share! You can see their post here.

Okay folks! That’s about all from me right now! I’m still working on getting you the highly anticipated photos from our birthday bash. I’ll post them as soon as I can, promise! Have a great Halloween weekend! See you in November!

I couldn’t wait to post these photos of the cake from our party. So far only two of them are up, but they’re so fantastic I just have to share now! The cake was incredible! Kristin over at The Cup did such a phenomenal job creating a funky and fun work of art that tasted just as good as it looked. I just love how she incorporated the Porridge Papers logo on the second tier! Sheer brilliance! The photos were taken by Robert Wurth of Studio Orange. He’s incredibly talented and his photos are always so tactile and lush! You could almost reach into the photos and pluck the raspberries off the cake!

Now I just can’t wait to see the rest of the photos he took throughout the evening including some “James Bond-like” portraits of the Porridge Papers family that were very promising!

Stay Tuned!

Hello Hello paper people! I’m finally writing with more news and photos from the Sweet 16 Party! Let me tell you, what a dizzying experience! So many different projects, people, and photos to keep track of. But we did it! Months of planning, weeks of working, and years of building a fantastic business went into our celebration on Saturday. Throughout the evening I’d say we had 150+ friends, family, fans, clients, and customers join us for food, cupcakes, wine, and music. The papermill was packed and everyone had a great time! Like I said, there are TONS of photos go to through, so I’m going to start with some in-progress shots of the huge amount of prep work that went into pulling this thing off.

Getting ready for printing, painting, cleaning and assembly!

cleaning and printing here we go!

finally it was time to stuff all of our Schwag Bags! What a mess!

Thanks again to all of the amazing people that pulled together to make this happen. It was truly amazing seeing everything fall into place.

Stay tuned for more photos of the party, cake, and happy Porridigians!

Personally, I don’t think it matters how awesome your job is, if your boss is a jerk, you’re going to suffer at work. Luckily, we minions at Porridge Papers, have this guy to answer to. Granted, he’s not a perfect person, but as far as bosses go he totally takes the cake. I don’t want to get too sappy, but it’s been almost seven years and Christopher (or, as we like to call him, Headquarters) continues to make this papermill the best place on Earth to work. He sure puts up with a lot, and he does it oh-so gracefully which is really an important key to being a good authority figure. Awesome bosses like this should never go unappreciated. And he doesn’t.

Here’s to the best boss that I ever plan on having! Thanks, Christopher. You rock!

We are currently at t-11 days and counting until our Sweet 16 party and there is still so much to do! Everyone around here has been spending time painting, organizing, cleaning, and prettying the papermill- on top of all of the papermaking, planning, and printing that needs to be done for the party- on top of the regular work that needs to be done. To say the least, we’ve had our hands full!

Things are coming together so nicely though! The mill looks better than ever, we’ve been turning out some of the most creative work that’s ever come through here, and we’re all just brimming with excitement for the goodies in store. We’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to be working with some of the most fantastic people. Kristin Rozsa of The Cup is working on the most phenomenal cake/cupcakes. Robert Wurth of Studio Orange will be hanging out and taking a few fancy photos. Karen and the folks at Bread & Cup are going to be whipping up the tastiest of treats for the catering. Jason of Screen Ink is working on our Schwag bags that will be filled with TONS of goodies featuring designs by peeps from Bozell, Gibbon Graphics, Ella Durham, Urban Finch, Inclosed Studio, Brizida Ahrnsbrak, and so so so so many more!

here’s a quick collage of the works in progress:

and another of the reorganizing/decorating messes:

Yippee Skippee, folks! Really, can’t wait… now, if you’ll excuse me… I have a LOT to do…

Our new press is in and adjusting nicely to her new home. We’re spending some good quality time with her before we give her an official name. She’s a little shy, the quietest press we’ve had yet, and she runs like a dream! Of course there’s that awkward “getting to know you” phase that we’re going through, but we can’t wait to be better acquainted! Here are some pictures of our new beauty.

Awww… look! her first impression!!! precious.

Also! Lots and lots of goodies are showing up in people’s mailboxes this week. Our sweet 16 invites went out last week and they’re getting rave reviews. This party is going to be an amazing opportunity to hob-nob with all of our other paper geek friends.  If you’ve gotten your invite please send in the RSVP asap so we can get our guest count tally!

And for our awesome Facebook fans, keep your eyes on that mailbox! Our goodie giveaway will be going out this week! I know you’re all waiting very patiently so here’s a sneak peek to taunt you further:

And a reminder to all of our local paper peeps; all October long we’re having a 16% off sale on all cards and stationery here in the store! Come in and wish us a happy sweet 16! For store hours and location visit our local page!

We’ve finally given in and you can now follow us on Twitter! Tweet Tweet!

Cheers!

Hooray! Today marks an official year that we’ve had the pleasure of working with Blayne! His actual anniversary fell on Saturday so we’re celebrating today since everyone’s here with us! How are we celebrating? by doing emergency transplant surgery on Francesca (one of our presses). One of her parts went out on Friday and we had an emergency press picked up. Unfortunately, this press also needed some parts so here we are, tinkering away!

It’s official! It’s October 1st and today marks the official birthday of Porridge Papers. We’re also starting our 16% off sale today. For the entire month of October you can come shop in our store and take 16% off your purchase!

hooray!

also, if someone would like to stop by and make all of our technology work… that’d be great. it’s been a rough week.

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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 first of November. Keep your eyes peeled!

We’ve also got an amazing anniversary party to plan for! Things are being glittered, plates are being ordered and paper is being made for goodies that will go into what I can promise will be one of the sweetest Schwag bags in history! Here are a few teaser pictures for ya!