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Introducing Atelier Yume: Our New Wallpaper Collection
Introducing Atelier Yume: Our New Wallpaper Collection
Atelier Yume is open. Our first wallpaper, Golden Desert – Counting Sheep, is a quiet line of sheep walking through golden dunes, made for the Year of the Sheep. Lire plus...
What Do You Keep? The Story Behind The Ledger of Us
What Do You Keep? The Story Behind The Ledger of Us
Two families, two very different homes. Why I made a writable journal for passing down what your family keeps. Lire plus...
After Thanksgiving: Getting Ready for the Year Ahead
After Thanksgiving: Getting Ready for the Year Ahead
After Thanksgiving, I quietly prepare for the new year in three small ways: a cleared corner at home, a notebook for the mind, and loungewear that makes everyday feel a... Lire plus...
A Spoonful of Shrimp Broth for a Toronto Thanksgiving 🦐
A Spoonful of Shrimp Broth for a Toronto Thanksgiving 🦐
A cozy Thanksgiving recipe from Toronto: shrimp shells make a rich, sweet broth for tender winter melon. Plus a few gifts for saying thank you. Lire plus...
Three Sisters, Three Quiet Gifts
Three Sisters, Three Quiet Gifts
Corn, beans, and winter melon grow better together. So do these three quiet gifts: a calendar, a postcard set, and a journal. Lire plus...
A Small Gift Guide: Luck for the New Year
A Small Gift Guide: Luck for the New Year
Writing can settle the mind. This new year, welcome a new notebook and pair it with the Ledger of Us Heirloom Journal and the Today's Sign Postcard Set. Lire plus...
A Small Sign, Once a Day
A Small Sign, Once a Day
Draw one card each morning. Only 10 sets of 10 postcards exist, and if someone comes to mind, send them one. Lire plus...
You Deserve Everything, Back Again | Alter Standard
You Deserve Everything, Back Again | Alter Standard
Embroidered relax crew sweatshirt by Alter Standard. AS Colour blank, chest embroidery in royal blue and Kelly green. Made to order. Lire plus...
What the Garden Keeps | The Ledger of Us
What the Garden Keeps | The Ledger of Us
Born on September 11, under Virgo, the sign of the harvest, I spend every birthday clearing the garden for winter. This year the winter melon went wild, so here is... Lire plus...
Muskoka Crew: Why Some Memories Are Made by the Lake
Muskoka Crew: Why Some Memories Are Made by the Lake
From Japanese villa towns to Muskoka cottage country. How childhood summers by the lake became our new collection, Muskoka Crew. Lire plus...
The Ledger of Us: What We Keep, and Why Our Packaging Is Simple
The Ledger of Us: What We Keep, and Why Our Packaging Is Simple
Two families taught me what we keep and what we pass on. How that question shaped our decision to keep packaging simple, on purpose. Lire plus...
Orange Journal and Today's Sign — When the Whole City Turned Orange
Orange Journal and Today's Sign — When the Whole City Turned Orange
A magazine said "carry an orange book and go to a new store." That small sign led me to Michael. And a year later, Toronto itself turned orange. Lire plus...
Welcome to Alter Standard: Mindfully Made for Everyday
Welcome to Alter Standard: Mindfully Made for Everyday
How a phrase from my mother-in-law Elissa — "You deserve it!" — became our first T-shirt and the beginning of Alter Standard. Lire plus...