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by Michelle MaliZaki, Founder of Pen Paper Palooza I’m still smiling from 11/8, THE Saturday. ✨Thank you — truly — to everyone who came out to the Pen Paper Palooza Pop-Up at Albion Garden in Venice! It was such a joyful day filled with pens, paper, laughter, and community. Seeing so many people come together to support small, local stationery businesses meant the world to me. Every vendor at this pop-up was a small business owner — artists, makers, and dreamers who pour the

by Michelle MaliZaki, Founder of Pen Paper Palooza When I was four years old, I met my first true love — a box of Colleen colored pencils. I can still see them lined up like tiny rainbows in their plastic case, all perfectly sharpened and full of promise. I remember the smell — that mix of wood, wax, and pure happiness. I spent hours arranging them: by color, by favorite, even by “who looked the nicest.” (Pink was always the friendliest.) That’s when my lifelong obsession wit

by Michelle MaliZaki, Founder of Pen Paper Palooza When I was four years old, I met my first true love: a box of Colleen colored pencils. 🎨 I can still picture them — neatly lined up in their little case, all perfectly sharpened and glowing like tiny candy sticks. I remember the smell too — that mix of wood, wax, and wonder. I spent hours arranging them in rainbow order, then by favorite color, then by which ones “looked the most polite.” (The pink was definitely the frien