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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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Collected tidbits to keep me company in the studio. (The ‘Backyard Garden’ page on the top is a cover that I never ended up using for the 2018 calendar, but maybe I should have because I do love looking at it now. 🤦‍♀️) #bppstudio #letterpress
Printing a bunch of new work for Spring today and tomorrow, but I think I’ll have to print a few more of these little pine twig twins before Winter makes its exit. #letterpress #inthepines #minimaliststationery #bppstudio
Here you see Emolyn, my oldest, working on printing her own letterpress Christmas cards for her friends last December. She and her sister always want to help out in the studio, and even though it greatly slows down what is already a slow process, I always try to include them when their printing curiosity strikes because it feels like such a beautiful opportunity for sharing. • It’s so easy to think of sharing in the physical world (i.e. yes, I’ll share a bite of my ice cream 🍦💛), but another more subtle (and maybe more important) form of sharing is the act of sharing something intangible that you love with someone that you love. The passions that take hold of our minds and ignite our hearts often begin as these secret gifts we hold close to our chest. They feel like a discovery of self, an insight into our inner world. Maybe reading becomes an escape, or baking quiets our mind, or gardening makes us feel more alive, or numbers provide a certitude that feels exciting, or space represents the infinite in a way that blows your mind on the daily. These are all gifts of the human experience and ultimately will mean SO much more if we open ourselves to sharing these gifts with those around us without expectation. Understand at the outset that what you share WILL NOT have the same meaning for someone else that it does for you, but if you’re open in your sharing both of you may receive an insight into each other and you will both be richer. Allow someone to peek behind the curtain of your passions- it will breathe new air into it, into you, and into them. • I’m posting a picture of Emmy’s finished card on my stories if you want to see... I may be biased but I’m pretty sure it’s fantastic. #letterpress #bppstudio #momthoughts
I will never be able to look at curlicues on packages and not think about the ringlets on the head of my youngest. What a gift.
Do you remember the opening scenes of Amélie where the narrator is describing the likes and dislikes of the characters? When it gets to Amelie’s mother it talks about how she loves the costumes of figure skaters, scrubbing the floor until it shines, and taking everything out of her purse, cleaning it well, and putting its contents back in exactly where it belongs. That’s been me the last few days. Pulling out every single storage cubby, going through every scrap of paper, shop vac’ing’ left, right, up, down, and in between, uncovering treasures, and a few insect stowaways as well. • Currently everything is heaped in a pile in the middle of the studio #konmari style and now everything that brings me joy (or is essential for running the press) is about to find it’s place. It feels purposeful, cathartic. • I’m so ready to dive into the buzzing beehive of ideas swirling in my head so we can get back to printing and restock our online store (which right now resembles Pooh Bear’s barren honey cupboards), but first things first... can’t get to where you need to be if you lost yourself in where you are!
"I just received my stunning calendar, and I can't stop carrying it around my house to each room I go to. I love it SO much." ~ Helen S. • 1 letterpress calendar - 13 prints - 39 colors run through our press by hand- 2 days left to order Sunny Side • Free USPS Priority Shipping (today only) for all orders over $20 with discount code: ELF at checkout.
Enjoying NYC for the next few days, but I can't wait to get home and start doing all of the crafty holiday things with my girls... especially baking. Guess I'll just have to settle for a chocolate chip cookie without them. Anyone have a recommendation for the best cookie in NYC? #milkandcookies #letterpress #dearsanta
I wanted to make a card for the coming winter months that felt cozy and warm and quiet and hopeful. A card that reminds us that even on the chilliest mornings and coldest evenings there is light. ✨ Now to decide... Navy envelopes of Kraft? #letterpress #bppstudio #hygge #beeswaxcandles
My oldest daughter loves textures... particularly textiles and natural fibers. She has since she was a year old. She can play for hours with cloth and responds so strongly to anything tactile. One time at a birthday party, she sat at a table eating cake and staring at the wall next to her. It had a plethora of streamers attached to it. She sat there quietly just looking, looking, looking at that wall. After a few minutes I was concerned she might be a little down about something so I asked her what she was thinking about. She looked up at me and said, "oh mama, please can I touch them?" I love this moment and carry it with me to remind myself of how important it is to lean into our curiosity, to take the time to imagine the world around us, and to want to reach out to touch it, feel it, be a part of it • Pictured here- cotton paper on a wood plate- nothing fancy, but seeing these colors, textures, and lines together just felt like a simple pleasure and one I wanted to share with you on a gray morning. In this moment the world turns slowly on its axis, and we're all in one way or another connected. Ultimately isn't that why we're on Instagram? To share in this experience of life, to connect, to see and be seen, to love?
Sitting at the Jiffy Lube while Def Leppard plays on the speakers trying not to itch the poison oak rash that showed up on my forehead a few days ago 🙈... but just beyond this cinder block wall there is a thick Fall fog and the leaves are changing and my mom and I will be on the road to Charleston today to take part in the Made in the South weekend hosted by @gardenandgun. You guys... we were runners up in their competition this year, and we get to go pretend we're fancy for 48 hours (at least it's pretend for me... my mom is actually fancy). I'll be posting a few things from the trip on IG stories so stay tuned. Oh and because we are so excited (and definitely not in the cool girl way excited about this) everything on the site is 10% off this weekend to including our just released ginkgo cards. Just enter discount code HOORAY at checkout. #letterpress #gingkobiloba #dsfloral #yellowismyfavoritecolor
Fire hot fingernails not included. 🌱 #letterpress #perennialprints
I am not a stay at home mom, and yet, I am. I am not a working mom, and yet, I am. I do both. I run my studio out of my home, but my work schedule is 100% dictated by my family’s schedule. I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit wishing that I wasn’t in the ‘in-between’ afraid that navigating the no-man’s land of motherhood and small business ownership would invariably make me bad at both… the words “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” seemed to always be nagging at me telling me I wasn’t showing up enough in either space. ~ HOGWASH! ~ Yep, I said it… the word that was on everyone’s mind… HOGWASH! For far too long I have given too much authority to my own inner critic’s voice. I’ve tried positive self-talk, listened to lots of @brenebrown 👑, incorporated daily exercise, and finally (after years of putting in the work) I’ve felt a significant shift in the tone of that negative voice... it has gotten so much softer and is now getting crowded out by a newer, gentler voice that doesn’t feel the need to second guess my choices and my lifestyle and instead cheers me on from the sidelines. ~ I love what I do, and who I am- someone so dedicated to her family, a woman who still loves design, and printing, and business. I’ve finally gotten to the place where I’m not wishing I was doing more in the ‘mom’ or ‘work’ spheres of my life because I realize now that I was losing the ability to appreciate what juggling both of these worlds was giving me. I show up with my best self and give as much of myself to both of these loves that I have every day, and I’m now capable of consciously choosing to know that that is ENOUGH for me. I have to continually make small compromises on both sides of the equation, but I’m willing to do that to have a foot in both of these worlds. ~ I share this with you because I honestly didn’t know if I would ever begin to stop that inner critic from being such a dominant force. I know that I will likely still have to wrestle with it at times, but I feel strong right now. I’m choosing to love my life and my choices instead of wishing I was more or better all of the time... (continued in comments)