Another stationery shop in Vancouver, BC that Mr. Three Staples and I were lucky enough to visit was The Regional Assembly of Text. What a wonderful store! If we hadn’t been on such a tight schedule, we definitely would have spent more than just half an hour here.
The store was easy to shop, with neatly laid out tabletops and displays. I particularly liked seeing typewriters, peg boards, and old-school chairs as part of their decor. In terms of merchandise, they had lots of journals, notebooks, desk accessories, and gifts, many of them designed and made in-house. Overall, it reminded me a bit of The Curiosity Shoppe and Little Otsu when they were still here in San Francisco.
I loved seeing pens and pencils in glass jars throughout the store. Pilot Hi-Tec-Cs spotted!
Fun buttons and patches! I hear they also run a Letter Writing Club every month. If I lived in Vancouver, I’d totally participate. And I’d hang out in their Lowercase Reading Room, where you can find lots of zines and self-published books.
I was happy to come across some familiar but hard to find brands here, like Paperways, Tools to Liveby, and mt.
I had a lot of fun browsing their house-made notepads, journals, rulers, greeting cards, etc.. So many! I had to walk away, but their postcards I couldn’t resist (see next photo).
Sticky notes and peach notebook by Paperways, mini letterpressed note pad by Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress, various postcards by The Regional Assembly of Text, and graph grid notebook with color pencils on the cover by Cavallini Papers & Co.
Where else did we go for stationery? This was it! And Paper-Ya, which I wrote about in my previous post and also highly recommend. I want to make of special mention of the Capilano Suspension Bridge: they had stamping stations throughout the park, and we used them to blind-emboss the Field Notes travel journal that we carried throughout our trip. Oh, and I had poutine for the first time. 😅
Hopefully, this won’t be the last time we visit Vancouver. The Regional Assembly of Text was too cute not to go back. Thanks to Rob for the recommendation!