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Oh, what the hey, while I'm rhapsodising over stationery, let me add a sad lament.
From my teen years until they went out of business, I was always an Eaton customer, rather than Crane. I had overseas penpals, and wrote multi-page epics to them on Eaton's Crystal Sheer, in blue, or cream. I always intended to try the pale lemon, but never ever the candy pink. I bought it in open stock, and over the years went through boxes and boxes, as it was lightweight and suitable for airmail.
For domestic correspondence I used Eaton's Calais Ripple, with a deckled edge, again in blue and cream open stock. I loved the texture, which had just a slight tooth and vertical column watermarks, rather than the linen some prefer. And for a smoother texture, Eaton's Highland Deckle, only available in cream, but in both regular and Monarch sizes.
And for very special letters, and holiday greetings, I used Eaton's Antiqua, satin-smooth heavy cream paper edged in gold, envelopes lined with Florentine flowers, a bit more faded and antique-looking than Crane's comparable Bertini Ecruwhite.
It's been many years since Eaton's personal writing papers were available, though they continue to market business papers. And the last local stationer's but one closed last year. The other has converted to office supplies, and is struggling against the likes of Office Depot and Staples. Crane makes some lovely things, granted. But I miss my familiar and dear writing papers, unbanding a new stack of envelopes or opening a fresh box and feeling quite wealthy at the stack of crisp blank pages awaiting my pen.
From my teen years until they went out of business, I was always an Eaton customer, rather than Crane. I had overseas penpals, and wrote multi-page epics to them on Eaton's Crystal Sheer, in blue, or cream. I always intended to try the pale lemon, but never ever the candy pink. I bought it in open stock, and over the years went through boxes and boxes, as it was lightweight and suitable for airmail.
For domestic correspondence I used Eaton's Calais Ripple, with a deckled edge, again in blue and cream open stock. I loved the texture, which had just a slight tooth and vertical column watermarks, rather than the linen some prefer. And for a smoother texture, Eaton's Highland Deckle, only available in cream, but in both regular and Monarch sizes.
And for very special letters, and holiday greetings, I used Eaton's Antiqua, satin-smooth heavy cream paper edged in gold, envelopes lined with Florentine flowers, a bit more faded and antique-looking than Crane's comparable Bertini Ecruwhite.
It's been many years since Eaton's personal writing papers were available, though they continue to market business papers. And the last local stationer's but one closed last year. The other has converted to office supplies, and is struggling against the likes of Office Depot and Staples. Crane makes some lovely things, granted. But I miss my familiar and dear writing papers, unbanding a new stack of envelopes or opening a fresh box and feeling quite wealthy at the stack of crisp blank pages awaiting my pen.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?viewItem&category=3123&item=8137630277&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
a $10 starting bid is really cheap! But it looks like they only ship to the US -- I would be happy to bid/ship this for you in return for you mailing me Milk Choc Caramel Hobnobs ... I've been obsessing about them lately!
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And I'd be happy to send you Hobnobs. I'm an NCista, are they available here?
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I've been trying to snipe things lately -- are you signed up with a sniping service? I use AuctionStealer. Set it and Forget it. :-)
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And honestly, I don't have space to store 50 boxes of stationery, much of which wouldn't be to my taste, anyway. I'd half talked myself out of it before she bid. Now I feel I'd be robbing the world of an artist's contribution if I bid her paper away.
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I'm always so paranoid the ebay police are going to come after me when I have to go through their email system to reach another bidder. So I worded it rather carefully. Hopefully she's canny enough to catch the code.
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Good luck!
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In an ideal world you and I would go to The Paper Garden here in Halifax, or The Papery in Ottawa. (and I won't even mention the discount designer fabric place in Toronto because, well, it's not stationary, but it's beautiful)
By the way, I got about half the opera to play, I think that the disc is defective... Do you want me to send you what I have? Were you able to get the disc to play at all?
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Got the entire first page menu of stuff, though.
Will pop it in the mall ASAP. (which will probably be Tuesday, because of Thanksgiving)
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Step three - sit back and rake in the dough.
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I tried it on my Region 1 player, the "Region-free" player, the laptop and the PC, my son tried it on their computer and their dvd player, and a friend of his tried it on his hacked-to-be-Region-free player. No luck at all.
Sure, I'll take what you got--tell me you got the Lakme, with the hand-cobra? That's the piece that I really, really love, though the rest of it is wonderful, too. And thanks.