Kyle Fine Stationery

Kyle Fine Stationery is an exceptional store in the heart of Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a wide variety of products. She carries some of Haute Papier's most popular lines. This past year has been a year of change for Shelley and her team but remains to impress with all the beautiful stationery and gift selections. We at Haute Papier were eager to ask her more questions.

How many years have you been in business? We have been in business 7 years this September. We were a department of our family office products and design business and in January of this year moved around the corner into our own store, which is much more US!

Do you have a website, if so, what's the address? Our web site is under construction: www.kylefinestationery.com

If you were to sell something other than stationery, what would it be? Shelley would be selling flowers, antique linens and silver, table top (it was too hard to say just one thing) if she was not in the stationery business.

Besides the obvious (stationery ), what is your favorite thing to give as a hostess gift? She usually gives the gift flowers/blooming orchid plant as a hostess gift.

Here at Haute Papier, we love to eat!  When in NYC for the National Stationery Show, where is your favorite place to grab dinner? When we asked her where she loves to eat when she is at the National Stationery Show Shelley responded, so many, it is hard to choose. My daughter lives in mid-town Manhattan, some of her neighborhood favorites are mine, as well. Casa Lula, Taboon, Gramercy Tavern is a favorite, la Bilbouquet for a late lunch.

Any other tidbits about your store you'd like to share?

We love making our customer’s happy, either by helping to turn their vision into a reality, creating the perfect piece for their event, or helping to design personal correspondence to characterize their personality.

Vendor Spotlight- Paces Papers

Haute Papier is excited to feature Paces Papers in Atlanta, Georgia. Paces Papers is an elegant stationery store in the heart of Atlanta. Their wonderful staff can help you find a wide variety of papery and gifts. Jackie Howard, owner extraordinaire, has been in Atlanta for almost forty years and has been supplying multiple generations with their stationery needs! Haute Papier asked Jackie and her ladies some of our favorite questions:

How many years have you been in business?  Jackie has owned Paces Papers for 37 years.  Store manager, Emmi, has been with Paces Papers for over three years.

If you were to sell something other than stationery, what would it be?  I'd love to sell art - run a gallery, or maybe a bakery.

Besides the obvious (stationery), what is your favorite thing to give as a hostess gift?  Emmi enjoys giving a bottle of champagne.

Here at Haute Papier, we love to eat! When in NYC for the National Stationery Show, where is your favorite place to grab dinner? I usually stay with friends so they show me great little places- Brown and Orange in the lower east side are wonderful with a daily changing dinner menu and delicious baked egg skillets for breakfast. Also, Emmi has recently discovered Roberta's Pizza in Brooklyn- yum!!

Any other tidbits about your store you'd like to share? Every once and a while we try to have arts and crafts time, just as a little break. We'll make paper flowers, paper dresses, a new display for the store. Emmi says that it keeps the creative juices flowing-- plus glitter is usually involved-- who could be un-cheered by that?

Make-it Monday!

We're excited to introduce Make-it Mondays!  Each Monday tune in for a new DIY project from the ladies of Haute Papier. First up is a little origami with one of our favorite papers from our friends at Smock.  We carry their full line of flat papers in Leesburg - come by the retail store to pick some up for your very own paper folding projects. Materials:

• 5 square pieces of paper (you can actually use any size you like as long as it's square)
• glue or double-sided tape

How to:

Fold the paper in half, creating a triangle

Take the left and right corners and fold them up to the middle

Fold the same pieces down to the right and left outside edge of the square. What was the inner fold, will line up with the edge of the outer square - see the picture below...

Open up the pockets you've just created and press them down. The image below shows the right side with this step done, be sure to do it on both sides.

Fold the small triangles towards you on each side so they are level with the edges of the paper.  This is what makes the little "petals" on the inside of the completed flower.

Fold the triangle in half on each side, using the crease you made earlier.

Apply glue or double-sided tape on the outside triangle, stick it to the other side. This is your first petal. To complete the flower, you need to make 4 more of these petals and glue them together.

Happy Crafting!!!

A First Birthday!

Oh what fun, our little Miss Etta Marie turned one!  This meant one thing – it was time to party!

Her soiree was a “Pizza, Pops & Playtime” theme and we put a ton of work into the details!  We decided to use two of Smock's wonderful papers from their Everday line which can be found at Haute Papier Leesburg.  The purple and red of the Flounce and Quadrille flat papers really captured the playful look we were going for.  We designed the invitations to include a hand-cut one and coordinating liner.

We used the four designs for paper decorations throughout the house.  Our favorite touch? The delicate sewn circle garland strung throughout.  Of course, the refreshments fit the theme.

Did you know there were so many foods with the word pop in them? Popcorn, pop rocks, pop chips, cake pops and the list goes on and on!  Overall it was a truly adorable event and fun was had by all. Happy Birthday to Etta Marie!

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