so brizida is working on designs for a new series of plantable cards, plantable wine tags and plantable pillow boxes. i ordered the plates last week and we should go to press with them on friday. we all decided that she should also make the paper as well. so when all is said and done, [...]

so here i go again…sam rolls her eyes and does not even bother to ask questions! why you ask? we have gotten so busy with the handmade paper, more specifically plantable paper, that we are moving the letterpress studio to the other side of the building and getting rid of half the retail since we [...]

a big thank you! the stationery show is around the corner and we just finished shipping out the last of the paper on friday (well except for one small order on monday). it has been insane over the last three weeks, the mill has been running 16 hour days with two days of that whole [...]

i started porridge papers back in 1993. it began in my kitchen, moved to the basement then in 1995 i rented a space in the historic district in lincoln, nebraska on 7th and o street and started producing stationery sets for stores up and down the midwest. business went from 2 stores to 30 in [...]

we finished with a project for jason ensminger. he had us make a handmade plantable thank you card for him to send to his clients as well as a custom size business card. i really liked how he had us incorporate the deckled edges on just 2 sides of his business card. with the whole [...]

so we got this wonderful little note today and it got us thinking that we need to make some t-shirts for our various interns that we get. it would be a “camp porridge” shirt! little notes like these make us love our job. thanks suzie for making the switch.

so this past saturday we held a paper sale. handmade paper for $0.25 up to $2.50 a sheet. the sheet sizes were 4×6 up to 19×25. it was crazy, and a lot of fun as well! thank you everybody for coming out. we will definitely be doing it again. we still have several thundered sheets [...]

there is so much going on around the mill as far as plantable paper goes. we have been producing plantable paper for so many companies over the last few months that we forgot what it was like to make paper without seeds. and a lot of which we cant even tell you about just yet! [...]

on saturday we had so much fun with all the kids that came out for the easter egg run. we were offering free card making. we brought out some great spring colors of handmade paper as well as some plantable paper. what better way to start off spring then by giving a card that turns [...]

people ask as all the time if our paper is recycled. ever since we started back in 1993 it has been. here is a giant brick of proof. we got another bale of recycled paper, 1300 pounds worth, delivered today. it took the better part of the day to un bale it and bring it [...]