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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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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)
"The writer Annie Dillard said, 'How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.' ☀️ I love this idea and think about it when I’m bogged down in the weeds of motherhood or to-do lists. In this season of my life, and with the current political climate, I need strong, grounding words like these to remind me to not just make it through each day, but enjoy the tasks that make up my days while I’m trying to squeeze all of that delicious (sometimes pulpy and occasionally bitter) juice out of life— I only get to live each day once after all. ☀️ I like to think that each person that has one of our calendars in their life is connected for that year. We’re tied by the ritual of turning the page over, of enjoying the fresh start of a new month, of being rooted in the seasons together. That shared experience is something that brings me happiness and calms my doubts when I worry if there is something more I could be contributing..." ☀️ A few thoughts that I stitched together around the release of our 2019 calendar that I wanted to share here as well. Also, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has ordered so far. The response has been so wonderful! Happy Monday folks! #letterpress #2019sunnyside #bppstudio
Just a reminder that sometimes you don't need a reason to send someone a letter- not a birthday, not an anniversary, not a triumph to celebrate, or a failure to offer sympathies. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is reach out when someone is least expecting it to let them know you love them. I finally took the 10 minutes to sit down and do something that wasn't on my "to-do" list. Writing a letter to my grandad is one of the best things I've done all week. He is one of the finest human beings I've ever met, and he deserves that love and acknowledgement. Can you think of someone in your life who deserves that?
Today's the day! We just released our 2019 garden calendar "Sunny Side" to our online shop. ☀️ We began dreaming up this calendar back at the tail end of Winter when the days were short and dark, and we needed a little extra sunshine and warmth. The result is 13 pages of letterpress printed illustrations with 39 colors (our most ever by far) and a project created with a whole lot of love and elbow grease. We are really proud to share this with you, and we hope you’ll love it as much as we do.
I love these hands. These hands, with their perfectly red fingernails, are my mother's hands. My mother who shows up and prints with me for days on end for hours on end. My mother who when I told her we were doing 39 colors on the calendar this year (which all have to be printed and mixed and registered and cleaned one at a time- and is frankly one of my craziest business decisions ever 🙈) said "Great, I think they all definitely need to be in there." My mother who sings while she prints and stops to play games with her grand daughters or teaches them how to knit while sitting on one of the many cardboard boxes filled with paper that are covering the studio floor. My mother who never complains- who would never say she's giving up some of her life for my life. She is such a fundamental part of me- heart and soul- and I damn well hope she knows just how much I adore exactly who she is and exactly who she isn't. My mother who keeps showing up for me while teaching me to show up for my daughters. This is what love looks like in my house today. I hope there's lots of love wherever you are today. #bppstudio #letterpress #2019sunnyside
Meant to post this earlier, but I got swept away in painting squirrel noses and whiskers on faces in between 17 different costume changes. We have a 20% off Labor Day sale on our site to celebrate the release of our floral prints... finally they're here 🤗! Just enter code PETALS at checkout. Hope everyone is enjoying their favorite kind of fun today. #letterpress #bppstudio #perennialprints
"Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 🌼