Paperworks closing this weekend
Downtown Corvallis is about to lose one of its best quirky little shops. After 22 years, the owners of Paperworks have decided it's time to retire.
I'm crushed. Paperworks is one of those stores you can't walk past without wandering in, especially if you're moving slowly because your tummy is full of New Morning Bakery's chicken salad. There are racks of unique paper hanging throughout the store... Asian prints, linen stationery, bright metallics, hand-crafted natural papers, plus numerous ribbons and leaves and artsy crafty bits. The walls are decorated with origami and various collage projects.
I have a secret stash of various papers from the store that I bought because I couldn't help myself, even though I'm not a particularly artistic person. I've used some of their strange papers as gift wrap and have a few sheets saved for a découpage project I may never actually start. I'll have to run down there this weekend and pick up a few more, even if they'll sit in a box in my closet until I retire.
The good news is that Paperworks will continue on as an internet store, but I'll miss the brick and mortar presence. It's a browsing store, and you can't oooh and ahhh as easily while staring at your computer monitor.
I'm crushed. Paperworks is one of those stores you can't walk past without wandering in, especially if you're moving slowly because your tummy is full of New Morning Bakery's chicken salad. There are racks of unique paper hanging throughout the store... Asian prints, linen stationery, bright metallics, hand-crafted natural papers, plus numerous ribbons and leaves and artsy crafty bits. The walls are decorated with origami and various collage projects.
I have a secret stash of various papers from the store that I bought because I couldn't help myself, even though I'm not a particularly artistic person. I've used some of their strange papers as gift wrap and have a few sheets saved for a découpage project I may never actually start. I'll have to run down there this weekend and pick up a few more, even if they'll sit in a box in my closet until I retire.
The good news is that Paperworks will continue on as an internet store, but I'll miss the brick and mortar presence. It's a browsing store, and you can't oooh and ahhh as easily while staring at your computer monitor.
posted by Corvallist at
1:04 AM
4 Comments:
I went in yesterday and found an awesome Oriental lantern holder...folding paper kinda thing, for only $5!
I bought the materials for my album there, almost out of print. would you like a copy of my album NORTH? 70 + mins of Recordings and compositions with almost all local sounds, including the coast, vineyard mountain and our skate park, where a man told me a story of having to kill his horse. Only $5, if you're interested.
But yeah... I'll miss ol Paperworks. She's retiirng to her home in Summit, ORE.
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crallspace, at 2:56 PM
I've never stopped in but will now before it's too late. Thanks for the story.
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Anonymous, at 9:59 PM
I thought I was the only one addicted to that chicken salad! Delicious.
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Anonymous, at 10:32 PM
Well, shoot. That really takes me back. When Paperworks was at the corner of SW 2nd and Jefferson, me and my then-not-yet-The Wife™ lived in one of the apartments over it.
It was the logical place to get our wedding invitations printed.
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Samuel John Klein, at 10:42 AM
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