Made from your life. Finished by hand.
Little moments.
A book of your own.
Your photos become illustrations in a real paper journal. Add a few words now. Write the rest when it arrives.
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For a trip, a year, or the ordinary days you’d like to remember. Your illustration on one side. Room for your story on the other.
The photo, and what we make of it.
Stamp is a carved rubber stamp in two to four inks.
Wash is pen contours with a loose watercolour wash.
Blueprint is an architect’s collage: colour fields, drafting lines, one accent.
You pick one style for the whole book.
rearview mirror. i liked
the way she crumpled
into sleep immediately
once she got into the car.
i was uncle. i was
chauffeur. the one
designated to take her
to her math tutoring.
Your memory on one side, your writing on the other.
An illustration. A date and a few words.
No. 01
tree / nap / algebra
2026
- Paper
- Cream stock that takes fountain pen without complaint.
- Size
- 4.25 × 6.875 in. Lives in a back pocket.
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched. Opens flat for writing.
- Timing
- Estimated delivery: 2–4 weeks. The writing takes as long as it takes.
Blank, ruled, grid, or dots. You decide what the writing pages look like.
Upload your photos
Pick up to twenty from the year. Blurry ones are welcome; you were there.
We draw the stamps
Every photo becomes a rubber-stamp illustration of its outlines, under-inked on purpose, with a typewriter caption. That’s what prints.
You write the rest
Ruled pages follow every stamp. Fill them in a weekend or over a year. No deadline.
Two ways in.
A matching copy of the same book for someone you love. Same stamps, same captions, two sets of pages. You each write what you remember, then swap. Both ship together.