About Blue Stiggy
Hand made, eco conscious notebooks and stationery,
personalised on my vintage typewriter named Dorothy.
Made in the UK in my Lincolnshire studio
Personalised notebooks and journals are what we do best!
Blue Stiggy makes personalised hand made eco-conscious stationery. For truly personal and thoughtful gifts.
Each notebook cover is painted by hand
Your chosen words are typed using my vintage typewriter Dorothy so that each one has real meaning between the giver and reciever.
Each book is hand stitched together using traditional linen thread
Blue Stiggy Stationery is made from innovative eco conscious materials - Helping you to find more planet friendly gifts
Blue Stiggy HQ is a solar powered studio in Lincolnshire UK - Another reason to feel good about asking us to make personalised stationery just for you.
Meet the team
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Hi, I'm Michaela
I have a lifelong passion for making things and learning new stuff. I’m fuelled by a pretty expensive tea habit - (loose leaf only from Imperial Teas of Lincoln.)
I drive a 1969 VW camper and love dancing (street dance and ballet)
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Dorothy
Dorothy is a 1970’s Baby Hermes. She was given to me by a friend who was a forensic scientist, specialising in document fraud.
Typewriter’s aren’t commonly used for fraud these days, so Dorothy has a new home and life at Blue Stiggy HQ -
Daisy
Daisy is a vintage letterpress machine. Using traditionally set lead type, painstakingly placed by hand in a composing stick and then locked in place, she prints some of my eco conscious notecards.
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Studio Doggo
This is Bonnie,studio superviser and all round cute fluffball. she’s a 12 year old cavapoo who loves sitting in that chair in the corner of my workshop looking out of the window . Other favourite past times are curling up in front of a fire and throwing her fluffy pink bone to herself.
What’s with the name?
tHE NAME ‘bLUE sTIGGY’ IS A NONSENSE NAME FROM A GAME
THAT mE AND MY SISTER PLAYED
If you were all dressed in blue you were a Blue Stiggy and honestly that’s actually all I can remember about it!
Hi, I’m Michaela, I design, make, pack, market and absolutely everything else here at Blue Stiggy HQ in the lovely Lincolnshire countryside. Here I am all dressed in blue :)
Blue Stiggy started in 2015 when I needed something that would work around caring for my young family and my husband who had to leave his career to have a battle with cancer which he won :)
I have always had a thing for making by hand, old machines and traditional methods. Keeping these old machines and traditional techniques alive to make beautiful stationery for you to use today, means that Dorothy, Daisy and the bookmaking tools and techniques that haven’t changed for hundreds of years can continue to thrive and be relevant.
Putting a little bit of history in to each handmade notebook or card.
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Blue Stiggy has collaborated with celebs! :)
Starting and running a creative business is a roller coaster of doing all the things and spinning all the plates, but also an opportunity for fabulous fun and proud moments.
When I first started making books with my typewriter Dorothy, I never dreamed that I’d one day collaborate with the fabulous Tan France and Etsy. Or that I’d make books for large companies and people that I’d heard of from the telly!
I’m also a big believer in community over competition and so took the opportunity to join the Nottingham Etsy team and eventually to lead it for a time. I’m super proud of all the help and support that I and the team were able to give other makers to help to grow their businesses. I feel like a proud mum when I see a business that had joined a support session for help and advice, begin to flourish!
Eco - Conscious
Blue Stiggy Handmade stationery is made with the planet in mind.
Take this Personalised Wall hanging for example. It has been typed on cotton paper, made from textile industry waste. Aaaaaaaaand I use offcuts from my books to type them on so double extra bonus eco points (yay)! Aaaaaaaaand, A tree is planted for each order.
See all the other ways I work with the planet in mind.
Learn With Me
There’s something special about taking a pile of paper and leaving with your own journal, sketchbook or photo book. I will guide you through stitching up your own notebook with this most ancient of book binding methods.
Book Binding workshop dates throughout the year
Make your own journal or sketchbook
Best selling Personalised Stationery and gifts
My absolute fave personalised items to make are those where the words I’m asked to type are complete nonsense to me. Often they are bought as gifts so there is a really personal connection between the giver and receiver. An ‘in joke’ or phrase that only they will understand. I LOVE IT! more of those please :)
