Casually Catching Up: May's Holiday Cards & New Sailor Pens: The Witch, A Mermaid and Hocoro Dip Pen
Hello everyone! Our team is back from our Thanksgiving break and ready to tackle the holidays! This week, Ashley and I are so excited to share with everyone May's adorable Special Project that she has been working on: our DIY Ornament Holiday Card. We have actually given out all of the cards we printed, but for anyone who missed out, don't be too sad because we still have plenty of copies of our special edition Holiday Yoseka Highlights Postcard also illustrated and designed by May! For an explanation of all the hidden details in May's illustration on our Holiday Postcard,...
Holiday Special Projects by May
I’m so glad to finally show everyone some special projects I’ve been working on this past month!I started out with the idea of making a special holiday card as a thank you to our customers. The project turned into this DIY Yoseka holiday ornament, something a lot more interactive and fun. It’s a card with a cut out that you can fold into a little tree-shaped paper ornament! I had so much fun designing this one and making sure it would cut and fold properly, and I hope you’ll also enjoy DIYing your Yoseka ornaments and decorating your trees or...
Casually Catching Up: Festive Kaweco Fountain Pens, Platinum Shape of Heart and Holiday Prep!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Join me and Ashley for this pre-Thanksgiving episode of Catching Up where we share Yoseka’s holiday schedule, talk about our upcoming holiday plans and of course we take a look at all of our wonderful newly added stationery from this past week. There are so many good ones to choose from this week! From Kaweco’s new holiday novelties of the Kaweco Sage Sport and Ruby AL Sport to Pilot Vanishing Point SE to Platinum 3776 Century Shape of Heart, we have so many great new fountain pens this week. We also added new stationery sets from Midori,...
Yoseka 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
With November sneaking up on us this year so quickly, December and the holidays will be here in no time at all! For this year’s Holiday Gift Guide, I thought I’d do something different and organize not by category but by interest! So if there’s a fountain pen lover, a stationery aficionado, a letter-writing pen pal or just a pen addict in your life, you may find some gift ideas for them on this list, just in time for the holidays. Fountain Pen Lover 1. Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2022 Give the gift of festive ink colors in a fun advent calendar...
Yoseka's Holiday Hours
For those planning a visit to Yoseka this holiday season, please keep in mind these important special holiday hours for our shop located at 63 West Street, Greenpoint Brooklyn. Yoseka will be closed on the following days: Thanksgiving: Closed 11/24 and 11/25, re-opening 11/26. Christmas & Shop break: 12/24, we will be closing early at 3pm Closed 12/25 to 1/10, re-opening 1/11 Aside from these days, we will be operating during our normal store hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 1-7pm. Happy Holidays!
2022 Holiday Shipping Schedule
If you are doing your holiday shopping already, here are some dates to keep in mind if you'd like your package by December 25th per the USPS website. For orders less than $100 (shipped with USPS First Class Package) please order by December 15th For orders over $100 or Express Shipping (shipped with USPS Priority Mail), please order by December 17th Yoseka team will be take a shop break from 12/25-1/2 and orders placed during shop break will be shipped after 1/2.
Casually Catching Up: Hobonichi One Piece, BUNGUBOX Bonanza and Letters from the Doghouse!
Join me and Ashley in this episode of Catching Up where we are hyping each other up over the Hobonichi One Piece collection, reliving beautiful memories from our Kakimori event earlier this fall and gushing over lovely new stationery from Hitotoki SODA, LAMY, BUNGUBOX, Delfonics and of course, Hobonichi! We both have some interesting stories to share from the shop this past week too. Thank you so much for watching and comment below if you've ever written a long letter of apology :) Let us know--did it work?!
Happy November! Halloween, Planners & Calendars, and Incoming Festive Stationery!
Happy November everyone! We're beginning to see some holiday stationery trickling in and it's definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This past month, we received the long-awaited Traveler's Cafe themed Traveler's Notebook refills for 2023. They are so cute and many of our team members have been excitedly reserving theirs for the new year. May, Christine and Bethany have all claimed their refills. As the end of the year approaches, we have all been thinking long and hard about what planners and calendars we'll be using. Most of our team already has their lineup figured out! Calendars of...
Casually Catching Up: Neil's Editing Oops, 2023 Calendars and Midori Planner Accessories!
Neil has joined this episode of Catching Up in order to explain a little slip up with last week's Catching Up editing! Sorry to anyone who was dying to see those shots of the G.C. Press Stickers--we brought them back this episode for their well-deserved closeups :) This past week at Yoseka Stationery, we have been working on lots of Traveler's preorders and they are finally all mailed out (thank you all for waiting patiently!) We have a lighter newly added stationery page this week, but lots of adorable 2023 calendars to choose from. In the shop this week, we...
Happy October! From Hobonichi to Kakimori, September Was a Great Month 🎉
Happy October friends! It's hard to believe how much has happened in just one month. September 1st was Hobonichi Day and leading up to it, we had an Instagram live at 11pm the night before, and together, our team counted down the midnight EST release of 2023 Hobonichi planners. The release was a huge success thanks to you all and it's been such a pleasure watching the popularity of this planner grow over the last few years. In September, we also started receiving many of the other 2023 planners that we have been taking pre-orders for and by now, many of...