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a. favorite design A purveyor of fine letterpress greeting cards, stationery, journals, planners, writing tools and vintage finds. We also offer community workshops. All a.

Located in the Albany Park neighborhood, our focus is to create a community letterpress space and to share our love of snail mail. Specialties

A purveyor of fine letterpress greeting cards, vintage finds, and stationery type products in the Albany Park neighborhood. Our main focus is to create a community letterpress space and sharing our love of snail mail. History

In 2018 we moved to our new h

ome at 4432 N. Kedzie in the Albany Park neighborhood. This allows us to offer community workshops, as well as have a retail area filled with our goods and other letterpress artist goods, vintage finds, and stationery type products. favorite goods are handmade with our small but caring staff & the occasional help (but constant support) from friends & family. Be it old or new, labelmaker, typewriter, computer or printing press, nothing makes Amber happier than creating. We hope to see you soon!

08/06/2026

It’s the first Thursday of the month! 💌Join us for our monthly Letter Writing Meet Up 5pm-7pm. Sit with neighbors and play with our vintage typewriters, write with our pens, decorate your envelopes with our washi and spend a little time being present and slowing down. Our mission is to encourage long distance warm fuzzies through snail mail. We believe in the magic of snail mail & that a long distance warm fuzzy can change someone’s day or maybe even their life.

Thank you Chicago Stationery Lovers! Even in a downpour, you showed up for us. My heart is full. You made our 5th Statio...
08/02/2026

Thank you Chicago Stationery Lovers! Even in a downpour, you showed up for us. My heart is full. You made our 5th Stationery Store Day! the best yet. I was so busy I forgot to snap pics. I’m clearly not a content creator 🤣 But I do know how to host a great event. I’m happy to report we sold through all our exclusive totes! Thanks to OrangeBeautiful for printing them. And we gave away all our free stickers, ran through all our perforated sticker sheets for our letterpress keepsake (thanks Liz Geoffrey )and sold out of a lot of SSD merch. Stationery people are the best! Thank you.

07/31/2026

Stationery Store Day is tomorrow! Meet the a. favorite design team. These amazing humans are here to help make your Stationery Store Day! the best EVER.
🖍️ Susy - production specialist, retail maven, No. 2 & mom
🛍️ Emily - shop overseer, retail specialist, creative genius
✏️ Liz - letterpress specialist, production baddie, ray of sunshine
✂️ a. - the A In a. favorite design, creator, owner, designer

Tomorrow look for the navy shirts to help, if you need us. We’re opening Saturday 10-5.

📸 by Myriam of him + her vintage | Vintage Event Boutique

07/30/2026

Stationery Store Day is almost here! Let’s talk merch. We’ve got all sorts of goodies, some exclusive to us.
✶ FREE afd shop postcard with purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE grocery shop sticker with $50 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE stationery tote with $100 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ Goodie bag for the first 10 customers in line (our exclusive tote with so many goodies)
✶ Chicagoland Stationery Store Day official stickers

Shop opens at 10am Saturday, August 1st for Stationery Store Day!

Have you seen the official Stationery Store Day! stickers? They’re adorable! We’ll have them available Saturday, August ...
07/27/2026

Have you seen the official Stationery Store Day! stickers? They’re adorable! We’ll have them available Saturday, August 1st - Open 10-5.

07/24/2026

Only 8 sleeps ‘till Stationery Store Day! ! Here’s a sneak peek of the new stickers I designed for Chicagoland Stationery Store Day and a couple exclusives for our store. We’re open 10-5 Saturday, August 1st. We’ll be celebrating all day long with the below.
✶ Letterpress print a SSD keepsake on our antique press
✶ Goodie bag for the first 10 customers in line
✶ FREE gift with purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE sticker with $50 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE tote with $100 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ Official SSD merch
✶ Official Chicagoland SSD merch
✶ Plus pick up your Passport!

07/23/2026

✏️ Saturday, August 1st is 5th International Stationery Store Day! 🖊️ We’re collaborating with area shops for Chicagoland Stationery Store Day. Next Saturday, stop by any of the below shops to pick up your Chicagoland Stationery Store Day passport and spend the day celebrating all things stationery!

a. favorite design
Atlas Stationers
Bon Femmes®
FESTIVE COLLECTIVE
Greenstar Paperie / Lynda
MARTHA MAE
Paper & Pencil Chicago Stationery
Paper Bunny Press | Sam
Ashley Frye
Meli | Pretty Pages - get a stamp at every store you shop & enter to win a giveaway from that shop. The more shops you visit - the more chances to win.

Stationery Store Day!

07/18/2026

Saturday Tag Sale! 🏷️ 11-4 with our friends and

Stationery Store Day is Saturday, August 1st! It’s our most favorite day of the year. We’ll be opening at 10am, join us....
07/11/2026

Stationery Store Day is Saturday, August 1st! It’s our most favorite day of the year. We’ll be opening at 10am, join us.
✶ Letterpress print a SSD keepsake on our antique press
✶ Goodie bag for the first 10 customers in line
✶ FREE gift with purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE sticker with $50 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ FREE exclusive tote with $100 purchase (while supplies last)
✶ Official SSD merch
✶ Official Chicagoland SSD merch
✶ Plus pick up your Passport! Visit our Chicagoland friends



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- get a stamp at every store you shop & enter to win a giveaway from that shop. The more shops you visit - the more chances to win. Come celebrate all things stationery with us!

🚨 Next Saturday is our Tag $ale 🚨 Here’s a peek at previous Tag $ale goodies. Lots of vintage office finds, $2 cards, $2...
07/10/2026

🚨 Next Saturday is our Tag $ale 🚨 Here’s a peek at previous Tag $ale goodies. Lots of vintage office finds, $2 cards, $2 stickers, $1 gift wrap, shelf worn shop goods and more! If that’s not motivation enough our friends and will be popping up too! Stop by for some deals!

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4432 N. Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL
60625

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+17734120891

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