Lovely stationery from Appelboom in the Netherlands

As I have gotten deeper into my stationery hobby over the past year, I’ve stumbled across so many new (to me) retailers. Who would have known that some of the best pen, ink and paper stores were based in Houston, Arkansas, or Virginia? (Surprisingly, California doesn’t really make the list… I do occasionally hear about Bittner in Carmel and of course, there is Baum Kuchen in SoCal.) And a recent find is Appelboom in the Netherlands. What a great site, with a huge variety. I recently received an order of some cool stationery from Appelboom that I wanted to share with you.

Appelboom pen box
Along with my new pen, Appelboom included a couple of stroopwafels. Sophie grabbed those before I got a chance to try them 🙂
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Great California online shop: Baum-Kuchen

You all know how nuts I am for stationery. I declared my love for it very early on in this blog. Since March, I have been going deep into the world of stationery and have found some wonderful online resources that I’ll be sharing with you soon. But I really want to highlight some of my California-based favorite online shops- and we are lucky to have Baum-Kuchen located in Southern California. What a cool California online shop!

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