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Welcome to the CottageRts Blog
The CottageRts blog is a place to be to follow us on our creative business journey. Find out what inspires us to create the designs we do and what goes in to designing the perfect letter writing paper or stationery set.
Sep 6, 20222 min read
How An Afternoon Printmaking Resulted In Our First Notebook Collection
As the month of September rolls in once again, we wanted to share what inspired us to create our first ever notebook collection. As...
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Jul 13, 20222 min read
The Inspiration Behind Our New Cyanotype Seaweed Stationery
Finally it feels like summer may have arrived in the UK. We are currently in the midst of a ‘heatwave’ and it seems to have been a bit of...
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Jun 29, 20221 min read
What’s in Our Summer 2022 Stationery Box?
Th day’s are longer, the weathers warmer, the plants are in full bloom and the sun is shining. Well almost, if someone could have a word...
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May 10, 20223 min read
4 Reasons Why Using Paper Can Be Better Than Always Relying On Technology
In a world where we are constantly in touch with technology it is easy to dismiss the relevance of traditional stationery items like...
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Mar 10, 20221 min read
Standing With Ukraine
We are sure all of us would like to help the people of Ukraine in any way we can. With this in mind we have produced a writing paper, in...
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Feb 26, 20203 min read
How To Gift Wrap Paper Products
OK so we’ve got a confession to make. One that as we run a stationery shop on Etsy we really shouldn’t be making…… but anyway….here it...
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Dec 9, 20191 min read
Our Favourite Product
The advent calenders are diminishing, the fairy lights are twinkling, and tree is up, much to the delight of cats up and down the country...
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Sep 18, 20193 min read
The Design Process
“Ahh that would make a great stationery design!” These are usually the words exclaimed by one of us when we see something that REALLY...
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Jun 14, 20192 min read
The Purpose of the Envelope
Envelopes. They are rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things arn’t they? What’s the purpose of them? Are they to simple hold...
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