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Step Back. Listen to Your Heart. . . and Simply Begin.

We were so inspired by this advice from Angie Warren, one of the creative and talented contributors to Tracey Clark’s new book Elevate the Everyday we had to offer it is a free downloadable print.  Sometimes life, a task, can be so overwhelming, it’s hard to decide where to start.  Angie sums it up beautifully [...]

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Inappropriate or Absolutely Adorable – Quotable

This month we’re excited to introduce our new “Quotable Book”, the latest in our documenting series.  Quotable is exactly what it sounds like: a creative space to capture those precious things someone said and you want to remember. Maybe we could title this the “kids say the darndest things we don’t ever want to forget” [...]

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something new

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”  - Erma Bombeck As a parent, I have observed many milestones but there is something extra heartwarming about witnessing a kindred spirit’s dreams coming true. Recently, one of my dear friends launched a custom cake business.  Looking for focus and direction, at [...]

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Your Story, My Story

Who are we before we become who we are? We’re still in there somewhere… hiding, playing with shadows until someone comes along who makes us want to dig in and share our story. Where do we begin? We begin where we left off. We jump right in unafraid even in our being afraid. Embracing that [...]

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Finding ‘IT’

What is ‘it’?  Your vision.  Your mission.  Your calling.  Your purpose.  How do you find it?  How will you know it?  How can you dream it? Download this beautiful and simple reminder and call to action from Meredith Winn – one of the inspiring contributors to Tracey Clark’s new book Elevate the Everyday. By day, [...]

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Lighten Your Load

When we moved to our new place this year I felt incredibly overwhelmed. I had been dreaming of this day for nearly a year and my mind went in a hundred directions as I looked at the boxes and piles of “life”. Where should I start? The kitchen came first and then ever so slowly [...]

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Become a Possibilitarian.

This month, we’ve been absolutely inspired (is it gushing to say, getting our socks knocked off?) by the incredibly creative and talented contributors to Tracey Clark’s new book Elevate the Everyday. We’re celebrating that inspiration with a series of free printable quotes from some of the contributors that we hope will inspire you, too.  Pin [...]

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Elevate the Everyday winner

Congratulations to Heather Sinex Toller, you are our winner of an Olympus E-PL2. Please e-mail support@papercoterie.com to claim your prize. Thanks for everyone’s submissions we loved seeing all of your photos. If you didn’t win don’t fret, if you e-mail support@papercoterie.com there is a little somethin waiting for you!

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Documenter of Life

These days, you will rarely find me leaving the house for any sort of adventure (big or small) without my camera in tow. There is seldom a family event that I do not capture with the enthusiasm and gusto of an award winning journalist. Vacations, field trips, family hikes, evening walks, dinners out…I could show [...]

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Fall. The Real New Year

When you think about passages of time or starting anew, do you think of Jan 1st or do you think of September?  For many of us, the Real New Year seems to happen at the beginning of Fall when the kids gear up for back to school and you for back to a more structured [...]

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