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We are a positive paper goods company that creates meaningful, personal connections by expressing love, gratitude and kindness. Our goal is to provide pure customer delight to everyone, aged 1 to 101.
THE NUT OF IT ALL

THE NUT OF IT ALL

Working together, growing a business, and hopefully providing people with products that make them very happy is such a blessing. We are so grateful we get to do this. Our friends at Blundstone made a lovely video that offers a wonderful peek behind the scenes, you can watch it here.

THE STUDIO

THE STUDIO

The daily pinch! Hidden right here on the town line in Newport, RI was the coooooolest old auto garage that we fixed up and made our own. It’s chic and swank and industrial (aka chilly) and is always filled with great music. It affords plenty of room to hide in the aisles of inventory, roller skates defo approved, and the kitchen always stocked with nespresso and chocolate. If only it was easier to hug a building!

the 3 brains:
we say we each have one third of a brain and it
really only works when we put them together :)
Ali

Ali

Chief Creative Officer

There is no finer (in our opinion) and more modest artist than Ali. Her artwork uniquely walks the line between beautiful and (ahem) cute. She always seems to know ahead of time what is going to be in fashion, which was apparent in 1988 when she was the first kid in the tri-state area to wear Tretorns. Studying Fine Art and Fashion Design at Massachusetts College of Art, she was asked back to teach Fashion Illustration. While working as the designer at Boston Ballet, she married the tall, strapping cutie down the road in her Boston neighborhood, and now they have two smart, funny creative boys who think she draws too many bears. Some of Ali’s loves include small talk, egg salad, and leftover scallops in the communal microwave.

Jenni

Jenni

Chief Executive Officer

Jenni’s desk is indoors only because her cord can’t reach all the way outside. She has a hard time concentrating on nice days, but ever the optimist, she starts her day ridicuously early to fit in all the things she (anally) needs to do everyday, including daily experimental brownies and a subsequent sweaty exercise. Don’t be offended if you never see her out at night, because at exactly 07:59:59pm her eyes glaze over and she’s off to lu lu la la (awkward to find out in college that not everyone uses this name for bedtime.) While studying biology in college, Jenni took a semester to sail on a schooner and never looked back, starting a career sailing private yachts and ended up in Newport selling sailboats. She married a dude from Vermont with whom she fell in love with years before at a dance party. They now have two adorable and wildly energetic boys.

Pippi

Pippi

Chief Operations Officer

How does one logjam a high speed computer program? Have Pip type. The cursor will disappear and the computer will start to overheat in its frustration to try and keep up with her superspeed. Hence the reason Pip is in charge of operations.... everything gets done, and quickly. A graduate of Loyola, she taught middle school in San Francisco, the city where she met her witty Brit husband. They relocated to Rhode Island to start their family... it’s arguable that they have the two cutest girls on the planet. Pippi (named this by her family when she was tiny because she was just cutest little pip) is secretly (or not-so-secretly) styling and outfitting everyone she knows- in a good way- not a Mean Girls way (on Wednesday we wear pink!) She has a remarkable talent for making the fanciest coffee (she actually knows why s l o w l y pouring the water makes a difference), dances to remind herself to be nice on the phone, and exists on shopping, ice cream cones, and candy.

THIS BUSINESS ISN'T ANYTHING WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT RUN.
MEET THE TEAM WHO MAKES OUR COMPANY TICK AND OUR HEARTS BEAT.
JULIE

JULIE

account manager

Maryann

Maryann

Inventory & Production Manager

PAM

PAM

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Laura

Laura

RETAIL MANAGER

SOPHIE

SOPHIE

graphic designer

ROB

ROB

PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING TEAM

JILL

JILL

SHIPPING TEAM

AMIE

AMIE

PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING TEAM

KATHLEEN

KATHLEEN

PRODUCTION TEAM

Molly

Molly

PRODUCTION TEAM

jo

jo

production team AND INVOICING MANAGER

Francesca

Francesca

Production Team

kayla

kayla

production team

brenda

brenda

production team

Troy

Troy

jewelry and gift specialist

danni

danni

bookkeeping

Alfie

Alfie

Floofy Office Merrymaking Team

the artwork (heartwork?)

the artwork (heartwork?)

It usually takes all three brains to come up with the words, but every painting comes from those crazy talented phalanges of our eldest. How many pictures and stories are IN those hands!? To make an idea come to life with beautiful, fine art mixed with funny... we have an insatiable appetite for what's coming next.

production

production

We have really cute bandaids here, because paper cuts are real! Our production team is the bomb ass rap song, and keeps this place running, smooth as skippy.

got shades?

got shades?

The east wing, where we let the sun shine in! The phone actually rings up here so the music is great but a tinsy less pumping than in production.

e. frances events
pizza truck day! so good even the GF-er's chose to suffer the belly aches

pizza truck day! so good even the GF-er's chose to suffer the belly aches

Valentine's lover's brunch

Valentine's lover's brunch