Welcome.

Brown Parcel Press is a mother and daughter team that makes letterpress paper goods inspired by the natural world and the simplicities of home. We print each piece with love and patience in our rural Georgia studio. 

 
 
 
 
 
JUST RELEASED!  Inside Outside: a new print collection on handmade paper

JUST RELEASED! Inside Outside: a new print collection on handmade paper

 
satsumaprint_large.jpg
sale
Satsumas in a Row
Garden themed stationery... now on SALE!

Garden themed stationery... now on SALE!

 
Want a behind the scenes look at our newest collaboration, Rainbow Soup? Explore here .

Want a behind the scenes look at our newest collaboration, Rainbow Soup? Explore here.

 
2018calendar_wrap_square.jpg
 
 
 
 

- INSTAGRAM -

I may have found my spirit animal in print form for Fall... honestly, I just slapped an old plate on the press for a quick test run, but I think I may just need to turn this into something more. Hooray for slapdash surprises of delight! (And 10 bonus points to you if you can use slapdash in a sentence this week 😉) #letterpress #bppstudio
When your oldest is under the weather and stays home from school you get to paint her fingernails just like you did when she was 2, and you wonder: How could her fingers have grown so much longer in 5 short years? And you want to cry because it’s all happened right in front of your eyes. You didn’t look away. You didn’t turn your back. You’ve held these hands every day and still those fingers surprise you with their length and how they fold over into yours now- the same hands as always but somehow different. She’s looking at you with big eyes and so you don’t cry, you smile back, and your heart breaks just loud enough for only you to hear it and then immediately sets itself to mending because it will need to be stronger for all of the growing yet to come, and it smiles while mending itself for all of the growth that has already happened. #motheringinthismoment
The evidence is in: I still love chickens, flowers, and simple patterns the most.
The dips, the curves, the bends... no two flowers are alike and there’s something fabulously comforting in the fact that beauty comes in all kinds of ways. ❤️💛💙 #letterpress #dsfloral #bppstudio
When you go to collect the eggs and there’s a feather still attached it seems only right to make a wish 🔮✨.
🍉🍉🍉 better get a napkin to wipe our chins or better yet just eat that melon outside... right next to the hose. - #letterpress #minimalstationery #bppstudio #farmersmarket #watermelon
Designing for other small businesses is not something I set out to do, but it has definitely been some of my most rewarding work- I’ve designed for flower farmers, food growers, restaurants, bakers, book makers, and bee keepers 👨‍🌾🌱🥧🌻🐝. So basically food, flowers, and books... all of my very favorite things. No wonder these business owners always feel like kindred spirits.
Next week my girls will both be in school full time. It will be the first time since becoming a mom 7.5 years ago that I will be able to keep a relatively normal work schedule. Up until this point I’ve squeezed press work into early mornings, late nights, nap times, weekends, a ballet lesson here, a stolen moment there. I’ve definitely ridden waves of mom guilt & frustration, desperately craving more time to work on my business and then when getting it immediately feeling like I should be back with my kids instead of working. I’ve had big dreams for this company and then moments where my inner voice says, “who do you think you’re kidding?”- and there was even a brief stint I contemplated walking away from it all and going back to school to be a nurse because it felt like pursuing a creative career might not be ultimately that helpful for others. Am I the only one to ever have this range of feelings or doubts? OF COURSE NOT! - What I’m describing is well within the realm of normal mom feelings whether you’re a stay at home mom, a working mom, or you straddle the line between the two worlds. So why am I sharing this if it’s normal? - Because I think it’s one of those messages I crave hearing from other humans too. When we own up to having mixed feelings and emotions it can help validate someone else when they have conflicted feelings about something they’re experiencing. I have been really looking forward to my youngest going to school full time and at the same time I’m already feeling homesick for her and she’s not even out of the house yet...and that’s ok! Our family and this business is about to stretch itself in new ways and meet challenges we can’t predict now and the best thing I can do is step up and lean in to this life that’s unfolding around me because I’m pretty sure these messy feelings just confirm I have a pulse and that’s definitely something I’m celebrating. (Also mom, can I just say thank you a billion times for helping me figure out how to keep my business going once I became a mom- I couldn’t have done it without you!) - 📷: @ethanhcovey
What we see at first glance can sometimes seem like not much of anything- just a square of beige to scroll past, but perhaps on second glance it may reveal something else: layers and hours of careful work, attention, and care. This is a little fragment of a work that started out as a drawing and later became a letterpress print. These drawn threads are our interpretation of the cotton gauze organic blankets that our friends @_willaby_ make. I’ve been dreaming about trying to make a print that actually looked like fabric for a long time and this has been such a joy (and challenge to work on... so many tiny lines 🤪). The best part may be running my fingers over all of those tiny lines and indentations created by the printing process- it’s like sensory heaven. #letterpress #collaborationsaremyfavorite
Bread, tomato, mayonnaise, salt, and pepper 🍞 🍅 🧂... I think the comfort foods of Summer require the simplest of ingredients and always make my mouth water. And because I can’t send a tomato sandwich in the mail to my favorite people this is the next best thing. #letterpress #tomatosandwich
And just like that, it’s time for blueberry pie 🥧.
🍓🍓🍓... if only I could eat a few of these.