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Interviews with artists, authors and real-life journallers.

"I’m an Italian writer and painter born in Rome, where I’ve lived my entire life. As a writer, my fascination lies with historical novels and my paintings are inspired by myths, legends and dreams."
We all contribute something. It can be the gift of making people happy or the ability to be a good listener, just as it can be a special talent to draw, to write or to sing.
"I grew up surrounded by books, music and paintings. During my childhood, Saturday was “Museum Day” and Sunday the “Cinema or Trip Day.” Night was time for Grimm’s fairy tales and Don Quixote, along with Chopin, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven."
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people’s journals to celebrate their imagination and inspire others. This week we are happy to welcome writer and artist Imelda Wei Ding Lo (a.k.a. Fortunus Games), a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, podcaster and game developer...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people’s journals to celebrate their imagination and inspire others. This week we are getting to know Michelle McKendry, a wax seal creator and creative writer from Ontario who uses Paperblanks journals in many different...
Forget "complicit" – "levidrome" is the word of the year, at least if a Canadian boy has anything to say about it! Six-year-old Levi Budd, from Victoria, has coined the term to describe a word that becomes another word when...
This month on #PeopleOfPaperblanks we had the pleasure of sitting down with Peter Dorey, an established landscape painter in the UK. We chat to him all about his current projects, where he gets his inspiration and his plans for...
Saturday is International Friendship Day, and what better way to celebrate the meeting of like minds than to highlight some famous literary and artistic duos? Inspired by our Embellished Manuscripts Schiller, Letter to Goethe journal, we decided to take...
For our "X Questions With" series, we're speaking with talented individuals from around the world who have inspired us with their creativity and passion. If you have a story to tell or someone you'd like to see profiled, let...
"I think people have really wandered away from the art of writing and journaling. Everything is so utilitarian and functional these days and people take little care to spend a little more time or money on beauty."