Crane Paper

I love Crane and Co. paper, because it's heavy, thick, 100% cotton, and feels great. The paper sucks up ink beautifully; it's fun to write on. Seriously; the difference between your average sheet of notebook paper or Post It paper and Crane and Co. paper is analogous to the difference between Sprite and Veuve Clicquot. On a trip to NYC, my mother bought me some correspondence cards by Crane and Co., very simple cream colored cardstock with a little black lipstick tube with pink lipstick in the lower right corner. They were feminine and fun without being too frilly. I loved those notecards, and at the time I didn't realize that was a limited edition design, or else I would have bought all the boxes of it they had.

Most of Crane's current designs are a little conservative for me, so I stick with either plain cream or their solid colored correspondence cards and notecards. I have white, cream, turquoise, hot pink and orange. They have soft colors like pink mist, bar harbor blue and wasabi green, but I'm not too keen on those. I like the notecards pictured here, but I think I'd get tired of them after a while.

Anyone who still takes pen to paper and enjoys it, or anyone who still actually writes a thank you note when someone has been thoughtful enough to give them a gift should get themselves some nice paper. And if you don't write thank you notes, then you don't deserve the nice paper. (Maybe you don't even deserve the gift.)