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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

 
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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.

 
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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.
I can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with chickens. I was an introverted 10 year old kid growing up in the suburbs who loved playing Little House on the Prairie (#lauraingallswilderforlife). One day I went to visit a friend of my dad’s. She was a retired teacher and a poet, a gentle soul, and she had her own backyard flock. She let me collect the eggs from her 3 hens and then she scrambled one up for me. You guys... I didn’t even know that kind of life was possible, let alone that eggs could taste that good. I certainly didn’t know then that one day my husband and I would farm chickens, pigs, and vegetables. Hens are plucky and a bit absurd in their jerky motions and ground scratching and flapping and fluffing and clucking, but they (like all animals) approach their daily work with a sincerity that is so beautiful to me. I guess that’s why I put chickens on our packing tape, I’ve made prints of them, and now cards. They just make me happy and sometimes that’s what snail mail is all about... making someone else smile. - Each card has been run through the press four times building up layers of color one at a time, cause that’s just how we roll around here... we’re a bit ol’ fashioned! Happy Friday hen lovers! #letterpress #hen #backyardflock #chicken
🎵 Put me in coach I’m ready to play (clap, clap, clap) today 🎵 Summer collection launches later today! Eeeeeep!
Currently plotting what’s going to be in our picnic basket this weekend! And while we’re not picnicking (which will be like the other 31 of my 32 non-sleeping hours) I’ll be editing all of the photos from our shoot yesterday, getting our new collection ready for its release next week, and prepping for my first ever art camp! It’s going to be an art heavy (and hopefully food heavy) weekend too! Also this is super random, but has anyone made the 4 ingredient no-churn ice cream recipe from @food52 cause it sounds pretty damn delightful?! #letterpress #picnic
Our studio lives in our unfinished basement... GASP...right next to the washer and dryer... 😱😱😱. How’s that for an IG highlight reel? The sad part is, I used to feel a bit of shame about it. Like how could we possibly have a legitimate business when the wiring is exposed on the ceiling (and not in the trendy ‘I live in a modern loft’ kind of way)? The thing is, I’ve had a picturesque studio in a refurbished manufacturing space, and one overlooking the Brooklyn navy yard and the East River, and one in an old heart pine general store, but those were stops along this small business journey and they just aren’t feasible in this season of my life. Now I try not to step on my kids’ toys on the floor beside the press and remember to switch over the laundry in between printing different runs and remember that Gillian asked for the Shopkins bandaid for her imaginary booboo and not the Dory bandaids and ‘can you please get it for me now mommy because there is imaginary blood spewing everywhere?!’ This is NOT the easy way to do business, but it is the business that has matched our values while we have small kids, and I have been able to slowly grow it over the last 11 years and get to work with my mom regularly and collaborate with some amazing people. One day soon I look forward to having a studio outside of the house again, a place dedicated to our business, where there are no dishes looking at me, but until then I’m feeling proud of this little studio that gets the job done and allows me to live out my version of mothering well, and I’m proud of all the ambition I still have lighting a fire in my heart for the future. I tell you this in case there’s some part of your life or passion that you’ve been carrying a bit of shame about. If you are doing it to the best of your ability with what you have then there is NO room for shame. Spend that energy feeling proud of your effort... and remember to switch over the laundry 🧺 while you’re at it 😉. #thisissmallbusiness #bppstudio #letterpress
We got a new press, which means its time to rearrange the studio. Changing physical spaces makes me feel like this 🤗 and also like this 😱 and also like this 😭 because I’m not always the best when it comes to interior design decisions (seriously that part of my brain just isn’t wired correctly), but on the upside it’s a good opportunity to clean house and reevaluate things. I found this print from a series of small prints we did a while back but all of them are sold out now. I’m thinking it might be time to do some new designs for small prints... or it’s time to get back to cleaning up. Either one, right?! #letterpress
Play. It’s a word adults rarely, if ever, use to describe what they’re doing. When was the last time someone asked you what you were doing and you responded, “I’m playing”! As we grow older I think we still ‘play’ we just do it in different ways. I think we’re playing when we’re involved in an activity and we lose ourselves during that activity. Those thoughts of worry, or fear, or comparison don’t exist. Some find it in reading, in running, in coloring, in watching a movie, in gardening. This ink wash portrait of me and my mother reading to me when I was a little girl was my version of ‘playing’. I had no goals for it, or myself, other than to sit down with a piece of paper and a brush and take 5 minutes to have some fun. Just 5 minutes- but that 5 minutes has continued to benefit me long after. Some people don’t need an invitation to relax, have fun, and laugh, but that’s not me (even though I’m working on loosening up those reigns!) If you’re like me, consider this an invitation to you to approach some task in your day and call it ‘playing’ instead of it’s more practical title. If it brings you even one more ounce of happiness than usual than know that you always have the power to approach something you’re doing with a playful heart instead of or in addition to a productive one. #play
I’m always hoping our calendars are like crystal balls 🔮 for all the things I’m going to be eating from month to month, but I let May go by without eating a single 🍑. I’m off my produce game... here’s to getting right back on that saddle in June. Anyone enjoyed their first peach of Summer yet? #eatallthepeaches #letterpress #bppstudio #2019sunnyside
Orange with a side of white 🧡 #letterpress #bppstudio
95 degrees in GA today... Summer has arrived! 🍉🍦🍅 • Because all of our colors get registered and printed by hand we inevitably end up with some mistakes in the process. My favorite use for our mess-ups is using them for ink tests (it also helps me make sure that all of the colors in the collection actually work together 🎨🤪). Also, BIG thanks to everyone who gave suggestions yesterday... there were some amazing ones in there! #letterpress #picnic #bppstudio