The True Power of Supporting Small Businesses

Jyssica Featured Customer, Creativity, Local Business

There is nothing that gives me more joy than connecting with another small business owner in my neighborhood, city, and state. We understand each other and what it takes to run a small business.   It takes courage, resiliency, hard work, resourcefulness and lots of heart and soul.   It can be challenging and it can be rewarding.   I …

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3 Reasons to Support Small Business, and 3 Ways to Do it Better

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 In honor of the ‘month of love,’ Paperjam is celebrating our love of small business all February long! We’re offering Biz Bundle discounts (the more you need, the more you save), our president and co-founder Deborah just returned from another trip to Capitol Hill fighting for small business, and she even wrote the blog below. If you’ve ever wondered, “will …

Behind The Scenes (Wedding Collective)

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We are excited to share with you that Paperjam is in the beginning stages of creating with nine other businesses in Beaumont Village on Fremont Street — a new wedding collective!  What’s a wedding collective you ask? Well, we are driven to help couples take the stress out of orchestrating a unique and special  wedding by creating a NE Portland-based …

Behind The Scenes (Window Display)

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Our theme of the month is “Back to Writing”, we wanted to take that theme to our window displays and create a bold graphic that will really pop on these grey days to come. We wanted to take you step by step on how our designer Emily has created this display! Everything starts by using our design program and creating …

Customer Spotlight: Arrowyn Craban Lauer

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“Elegant eco-friendly kitsch for your heart and home“ Arrowyn Craban Lauer is the owner and designer of Little Gold Fox Designs, a local sustainable design and paper goods company. We asked her to tell us a bit about how she got started in the paper goods and design world! “I’ve been working as a graphic designer and web developer for …