I have loved sharing the cards with friends - maybe inspired by reading The Correspondent but I have enjoyed going old school and mailing cards. Your beautiful cards make it even more special. Priscilla Stephenson
Keepsake Stationery Box
$22.00
beautiful FSC-certified pine
Designed to hold your card collection
includes extras: candle, tea and ribbon
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
A beautiful box of pine with our gold-foil farmette logo, made for holding your collection of cards so you can reach for them any time you need. Inside is a lovely "goodie bag," with a sachet of tea inspired by our farm, a yard of plant-dyed silk ribbon, and a hand-dipped mini-taper made by local monks from 100% beeswax. Perfect for creating a special moment: light a candle, make a cup of tea, and enjoy the pleasure of writing a beautiful card.
Can hold up to 25 of our folded or note cards comfortably.
We create our paper goods with great care and love in our studio in Palo Cedro, California! Loren writes and creates each design, often using sketching and handwriting, and then pairs it with the perfect paper color. Tim, Colin and Xela transform natural fibers into beautiful, plant-dyed, deckle-edged sheets. Lydia, Elevia, Christy and Jessica print them one-at-a-time on our antique presses and package them up for you! Scroll down for more details about our artisan making process.
Emily and Lydia will carefully pack up your order and ship it via the method you choose at check out. Our shipping timeline is one to three business days, and almost all orders will ship within one business day!
Please email us at shipping@farmette.co if you need your order to arrive by a certain date, and we will do everything we can to accommodate.
Hand Crafted with love
Farmette paper starts with natural cotton fibers, which are upcycled from the garment industry, and abaca fibers, from a plant in the banana family.
These materials are weighed and soaked, and then processed for four to five hours into pulp with a simple machine called a Hollander beater, which macerates the fibers so that they will knit together when shaken in water.
Once the beater is emptied, we use plant powders and occasionally minerals in careful ratios to dye our pulp in our natural palette. Most dyes are left for a 12-hour period to set.
Sustainably created
Next, the pulp is added to a vat of water. The papermaker skillfully pulls a screen stretched over a frame, with another frame on top - called a mould and deckle - through the pulpy water and shakes the slurry as the water drains out through the screen, leaving the shapes of the paper behind.
Excess water is sponged out, and the wet sheets of paper are transferred onto fabrics sandwiched between acrylic sheets. Stacks of these sandwiches are then moved onto a hydraulic press, where remaining water is slowly squeezed out and the fibers are further knit together to create a strong paper surface.
We Use Antique Letterpresses
These fabric-paper sandwiches are then removed from the press and hung to dry. Once they are dry, paper sheets are peeled off the fabrics by hand, and folded by hand into cards if necessary.
At this point, the paper is moved to our print room, where our press people print our designs on antique lettepresses and hot foil presses.
One By One...
Our designs, many with hand sketching or lettering that has been digitized, have been made into photopolymer plates or copper dies, which must be expertly aligned on the presses. One at a time, a piece of paper is precisely placed, and the press is activated by a foot pedal or hand lever to imprint the design into the paper.
The prints are then inspected for quality and placed with their envelopes or backers into a sleeve for safe-keeping. They’re ready to be shipped to our beloved customers all over the world!
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 93 reviews.
Very unique and so lovely. Wonderful box to keep truly special keepsakes.
The box is very spacious, well made and perfect to store lots of paper!
I purchased a 3 month subscription for a friend and she just received her first shipment and LOVES her farmette goodies!
I am trying to slow down and do less with deeper intention. My sister sent me one of your cards and I decided to order several to use throughout the year with the intention of writing cards every month to whomever is on my mind. I actually purchased two of the wooden boxes so that I would have plenty of space to store my writing materials. I was thrilled when they arrived with these lovely notes from you, a candle and a lovely tea sachet in each one. I appreciate you being part of my New Year's effort at spreading a little peace and equanimity in the world.
Lovely keepsake box and GREAT customer service. And true to form: The cards themselves have that wonderfully tactile texture.
I chose this gift set for a very dear friend. The affirmations on your beautiful paper are the perfect gift for her. She has the most beautiful heart and soul and this gift belong with her!!
keepsake stationery box - complementary with collections of $75 or more
Outstanding art and craft - reflecting excellence and inspiration to write to loved ones — on paper!! ❤️
Wonderful box for keeping treasures
It’s good but way too expensive for how thin and flimsy it is.
Like it, but it was a bit smaller than I thought it would be
Perfect size for cards.
Thank you ! I loved all of it. A dear friend’s Mom passed away just a few days ago. I sent her the “I am at peace” for her Mom because I know her Mom really struggled at the end. The timing and sentiment was perfect.
Beautiful box for storing cards !
Sweet box for keepsakes!
Well-made storage box for the beautiful stationery items. Very happy with purchase.
The replacement keepsake box arrived in excellent condition. Thank you!
My first delivery brought me such delight--the textures, colors, and images were perfect. As a paper addict, I feel this checks all the boxes!
Perfect little box to keep all the wonderful stationary and keepsakes. First one was damaged and they immediately responded and replaced. Great product and great customer service!
This box is so great. I love the tissue paper the cards were wrapped in and I plan to decoupage the sides of the box with it.
This box is sturdy and beautiful!
Perfect. Functional. Amazing for storage
I have had many card subscriptions in my lifetime and when I saw these beautiful handmade cards, I had to try them. I ordered the keepsake box to store the cards. It’s perfect! Thank you.!
Pretty and functional. I will enjoy using this box.
Lid doesn’t fit quite right
Unique and beautiful.
Lovely box for storing!
Everything is beautiful!
Great size and love that it's customizable
This is a lovely package. Every single piece is beautiful.. If you love nice things and you love paper this collection is for you! Every piece is a keepsake - which is a big problem!!!! :-)
Great size for all my cards and paper. Well made too. 😃 love the idea of having a special storage box for the handmade cards and note paper.
Love everything from here! Beautiful quality!
I bought an assortment of cards to give as a gift an this is the perfect thing for presentation and storing the beautiful stationery 🤗
Loved everything and the free surprises were so thoughtful and appreciated ♥️
Box is well made and everything fits well inside keeping all your cards and paper perfect. Pretty logo on top.
Received my order very quickly and unboxing it was such a joy. Looking forward to future shipments!
Gorgeous box to keep all of my current and future goodies!
It will be a nice place to store my monthly subscription items.
The keepsake box is very nice. I am using it for the cards I receivef which are quite lovely.
I ordered from you because I loved watching you make something from scratch. At 82, it made my heart feel good. I received the package and enjoyed opening it. Then I put all aside for a later date to really understand what I had purchased. Ask me again, after I have a chance to enjoy and decide what I want to do with each tiny piece of your work. Thank You... Maureen