I received the product featured free of charge, for the purposes of this post
Today I want to introduce you to Sleepy Bee Studio, share with you the stationery that I have been sent and launch a competition for one of you to win the very same set, so do read on….
I had a lovely phone call a week or so ago with Charlie over at Sleepy Bee Studio, chatting all things stationery. It was fun hearing about her exciting upcoming plans (go follow them so you’ll see them as they are revealed, they are good!) and sharing with her more about the Bring Back Paper series.
I knew that I was going to love sharing all about Sleepy Bee Studio with you just from our happy papery chat, and then I received the Bumblebee Collection Writing Set from her, and just wow. I mean, just look at it, gaze upon it.
Let me share with you a little about the creators behind Sleepy Bee Studio, and then we will talk more about this writing set.
About Sleepy Bee Studio
Charlie is an illustrator and product designer who loves nothing more than creating chaos of the pretty variety in her studio everyday (and dutifully tidying it away every evening as it makes Gav, the tidy one of the two, want to cry). Gav is a graphic designer who does the artwork set-up, manages print production, and the technical side of the products and social media. Charlie comes up with endless ideas for new products, colours, materials, and Gav tells her to calm down and focus on things one step at a time.
The first four stationery themes named ‘Cambridge’, ‘Botanical’, ‘Darwin’, and ‘Stargazer’ were inspired by Charlie’s home-town of Cambridge and its rich historical setting along with the beauty of its gardens & architecture to create something with more of a bespoke touch.
The packaging style has a quintessentially English look to it with the incorporation of hand-poured wax seals & delicate calligraphy. Each product has been lovingly handmade with high quality materials and presented as a beautiful keepsake to cherish.
My thoughts
This writing set has a luxuriously elegant air to it. I feel classy just by owning it!
It arrives wrapped in bumblebee tissue paper and the process of unwrapping it feels like a real treat in itself.
Once unwrapped, you find yourself looking at a faux leather pouch that houses your writing set. In all of my years of owning writing sets, I have never had one come in its own little pouch like this before, and I think it’s a special touch.
The Bumblebee Collection Writing Set includes paper, envelopes and a sleek pen, all that you could possibly need to write your happy mail.
The pen writes beautifully with black ink and the paper is a good quality, thick with the beautiful bumblebee design printed across the top. I then like how the bumblebee and hive design is printed all over the envelopes.
This is a writing set that I can see making a beautiful gift for a stationery addict or an indulgent treat for yourself. And we all need indulgent treats for ourselves from time to time, don’t we?
The only problem that I can foresee with this stationery is not wanting to actually write on it and ‘ruin’ it! If you’re a fellow stationery addict, you will know just what I mean!
Now, if you are looking at this beautiful paper and wondering who you could send a letter to, why not pop a surprise in the post to a friend, or find some pen pals and get writing? You know they will love it.
Competition Time!
Now it is your chance to win the Bumblebee Collection Writing Set for yourself. To be in with a chance of winning it, just enter via the rafflecopter below.
This giveaway is open worldwide, to entrants aged 18 and over. It closes at 12am 11th October 2020, terms and conditions apply, see rafflecopter for details. Good luck!
Which designs do you love over at Sleepy Bee Studio?
Disclosure: I received the product featured free of charge, for the purposes of this post
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I love all the designs! Bees are our favourite as my mums name is Bea so this would be just perfect as a little gift for her to use!
I love the Darwin collection!
Looks like a lovely writing set.
What lovely stationery! My favorite collections are Bumblebee, Botanical and Stargazer, in that order. They are all beautiful and appear to be such high quality.
I love stargazer the most! Its a beautiful set!!
I like the Ethereal collection
Love the bees
The stargazer collection looks great, I’d say that was my favourite.
I love the bumble bee design
love all the designs
Oh my goodness….it’s hard to choose a favorite! I think mine would be the Cambridge set, but they’re all beautiful.
I love the bumblebee collection!
The Bees and the Botanicals are buzzing, the Cambridge is classy, the Darwin is dreamy, but the Ethereal is out of this world.
the bumblebee collection thankyou
The Bumble bee set is really cute! I also really like the postcards 🙂
I like the Ethereal Collection and the Stargazer collection because they’re blue colour and my favourite colour is blue plus they look interesting!
The bee collection or Darwin collection
Thank you so much for letting your readers know about this wonderful company. Everything is gorgeous but I love the Stargazer Collection best of all. There are many small stationery companies like this but I find that most focus on notecards. Since I am a long letter-writer, these do not always work for me as I prefer traditional paper sheets to write on. So, it is great to find a new source of stationery that suits my needs.
How to choose one! It’s a toss up between the bees & the botanical but I love the Cambridge sets too.
I love the bees!
The Bees and the Botanicals are my favorites. Getting some new stationary would be amazing! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
The Botanical Collection
It’s elegant and whimsical at the same time. So pretty!
Fabulous post Jocelyn! I feel the same way about writing on such lovely stationery!
I adore Sleepy Bee Studio and can’t wait until they start distributing Internationally!!
I’m thrilled they are for this giveaway!
I love the entire collection but my top three favorites are:
The Bee Collection,
The Botanical Collection,
The Cambridge Collection.
My favourites are Bumblebee and Darwin
My favourite is the Botanical collection
Hello, my favourite thing that they sell is their ‘Midnight Gold Moon A6 Mounted Watercolour Art Print’ as it is very pretty.
Stargazer and bumblebees – such beautiful collections – love them all
The bumblebee design
I love the Stargazer and bumblebee designs.
I love the stargazer, but love them all!
I love the faux leather pouch that protects the writing set. I bring my stationary with me when I travel and this would come in handy for that
I love the bees, Ethereal and stargazer collection
The Botanical design is my favourite!
Love the bees
The bees is my absolute favorite. It’s gorgeous!!
love the Stargazer too
Actually all of the designs are my favourites
The plant life chose me!
The Bumblebee collection xx
BEES smiles Happy summer bees. Have a good Fall.
Like others it would be hard to choose just one. But, i think if i had to choose it would be the Darwin. Thank you for a chance to own some of this beautiful stationary.
I love the Stargazer collection.
I love the Cambridge set.
All of the designs are beautiful, but avid gardener that I am, I love the bees.
I love all the designs, but I think the bumblebee maybe my favourite
I’m with you, almost too nice to use and ‘ruin.’ 😉 Gorgeous stationery. The bees!
The paper with the three bees at the top is very simple and striking.
That is a very hard question! It’s all so beautiful! Way back in the day, I used to be an astrophysicist and the love of stargazing has never left, so I’m going to pick the Stargazer writing set as my very favourite of all 🙂
The bumblebee stationary
All of them are lovely but I really like the Tissue wrapped Stargazer set.
The Stargazer design is my favourite, I love it!
I love the Cambridge collection, it’s so classic
All of the designs are gorgeous but the bumble bees are my favourite.
Love the bee and Darwin design
the Bees collection 🙂
the Botanical collection
The Ethereal set is gorgeous x
My favourite is the Bumblebee design.
My top 3 are the Cambridge, Stargazer, and Bumblebee. I don’t think I cold choose a favourite from them though!
stargazer is beautiful
I love the bumblebee headed paper 🙂
I love the bumblebee collection
it has to be the bees
I like both stargazer and bumblebee, I think they are both well made and would be a delight
Wow; They are all beautiful. I really can’t pick a favourite but I can narrow it down to all of the etherereal writing sets
I love the Darwin collection, so pretty. I really miss writing letters and they need a comeback! x
THE ETHEREAL COLLECTION LETTER WRITING SET, this is simply stunning!
The Cambridge collection
I’m loving the Darwin collection
Wow they are all lovely, but I especially like the botanical collection
I like the Ethereal collection
The bees are great for me as my nicname is Bee but i also love the Ethereal design
Toss up between Bumblebee / Darwin
This one,The Bumblebee Collection
The Bumblebee collection has so much detail, but I love the Darwin collection the best. It would make a lovely present too.
THE BOTANICAL COLLECTION
I’m torn between the stargazer and bees. Both are lovely.
liking the Stargazer collection
Love all the designs!
I love the Darwin collection. So lovely to have some luxury when writing a letter. ❤
Love the Bees and the Darwin collections, always nice to have lovely stationery.
The Ethereal Collection Letter Writing Set
I absolutely love the Stargazer design
The Stargazer Collection
Loving the HoneyBee
Loving all the Bee designs.. I love bees. If i had to pick a collection it would be the Bumblebee Collection,
What a gorgeous range. I like the Cambridge best.
I would say the Bumblebee is my fav, but the stargazer set is a very close 2nd
I love the Stargazer and the Ethereal stationery set.
The Bumblebee Collection, I have a soft spot for bumble bees, especialy as they should not be able to fly
My friend is obsessed with bees, so I’d love the bumblebee set!
I like the stargazer collection
I think the Stargazer set, very pretty and interesting design.
I Like The Ethereal Collection Letter Writing Set Best.
I love the Darwin collection
Absolutely love the stargazer collection
Defo the Bumblebee one!
Love the bumblebee collection
All of them are very pretty. I specifically like the bumblebee collection, the botanical collection and the stargazer collection.
The Bees are just lovely.
I love the Cambridge collection
Stargazer collection 🌠
I really like the Darwin collection.
I love stargazer its lovely
Darwin collection is my favourite .
I love the Bumblebee Collection.
I like the stargazer collection
I love the bee and stargazer collection best
The Bumblebee set is my absolute favourite. I’ve loved bees ever since I was a child and anything beautiful with a bee on it, I just have to have Xx
I love the bumblebee but if I had to choose another it would be Darwin. These are all lovely and would definitely make me want to write letters again!
I love the Darwin Collection stationery set, but they are all lovely. I write lots of letters and it’s so hard to find nice stationery now.
I like the Cambridge Collection
The stargazer collection is beautiful
The stargazer collection
Difficult choice but I’d pick the Stargazer collection
Cambridge design
it is so hard to pick as all so pretty, but stargazer is my favourite
Such pretty designs. THE STARGAZER COLLECTION LETTER WRITING SET IS PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE.
the bumblebee headed paper is divine
The Darwin Collection as I live in Shrewsbury where he was born
The Botanical writing set is gorgeous
I adore the Botanical print and the Bumblebee print illustrations- stunning stationary sets!
The botanical set is beautiful
Beautiful!
I really like the Darwin collection! It’s so pretty x
Darwin. And Botanical.
I would normally say anything bee related! But I especially love the Darwin set!
Stargazer for me! What beautiful stationery.
I lovethe Botanical print
I really like the bumblebee and the stargazer designs
Love the Botanical – gorgeous! xx
Bumblebee Collection Writing Set
I like the stargazer
I love the Stargazer range!
Lovely post!
I love the stargazer postcards. Thanks for the chance.
i love the Darwin set!
I like the Stargazer collection
If has to be the Bumblebee collection, I like the year of letters idea on their site too.
I adore the bumblebee design
Love this and also the ethereal collection.
I love the bumblebee collection although they are all lovely.
Absolutely love the bumble bee set xx
Hard to choose just one but I especially love the Bumble Bee and the Botanicals
love the botanical set
I think, and it’s a very close call, the bumblebees are my favourite
Darwin would be my favourite if it were blue. So I think Ethereal.
The bumblebee collection.
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The bumblebee is my favourite but I also love the stargazer design too x
I love the stargazer collection
I really like The Stargazer Collection letter writing set x
The Darwin Collection
The Darwin Collection ✔️
the bees
ours is ‘Stargazer’
I love the Darwin collection
I love the Stargazer Set
Stargazer
I love Bumble Bees so for me it has to be the Bumble Bee Collection xx
Being from Manchester I love bees 🙂
I love the Stargazer sets and also the Bumblebees!
My favourite design is the Stargazer collection.
They are all lovely designs so very difficult to choose just one. The bumble bees & Stargazer Collections have just slightly edged ahead.
Has to be the Stargazer 🙂
I love the Darwin collection
Love them all, but my favourite is the Darwin collection.
stargazer is so pretty, I will pick that one.
I love the Cambridge Collection, it’s so beautiful!
I love the bees
The botanical collection
I love the bees!
i like the stargazer design
Love the bees
I love the stargazer letter writing set – gorgeous!
I love the botanical set, so pretty!
I love the DARWIN HAND ILLUSTRATED TISSUE PAPER
Like the Botanical Range x
the star gazer
Stargazer looks lovely.
I love the Cambridge collection but they are all lovely!
I love the stargazer collection.
I love the Stargazer collection!
They are all lovely, but I think the Stargazer
I think the stargazer is beautiful xx
Darwin
the Botanical Range 🙂
I love the THE BOTANICAL COLLECTION LETTER WRITING SET
I love the Darwin collection
Botanical
All the designs are lovely but my favourites are the Bumblebee and Botanical collections
It’s a hard choice burnt favourites are the bumble bee design and the stargazer design.
Very hard choice but I’d say the Darwin collection
I love the Bumblebee collection
Love the stargazer gift set!!
The Bumblebee Collection Writing Set.
I love the bees but the ethereal set looks pretty as well.
I love the Ethereal Collection the most.
I like the Ethereal collection
Love the Darwin collection
I love the Darwin Collection. I have never come across this site before and thanks to you I think I have found some Christmas gifts
Stargazer ia my absolute favorite but I love them all!
Love them all but bumblebee just makes it
LOVE the Stargazer
The stargazer
Stargazer is lovely!
The Bees
The Bumblebee. So beautiful and timeless and all ages would love it.
I love stargazer
I love the stargazer the best
I love the Cambridge collection
I really like the Cambridge Collection
I love both the Bees and the Botanical Collections, they’re all really lovely though!
stargazer collection looks super. I’d say that was my favourite
I love the Ethereal collection xx
They are all so beautiful, but as an astronomy fanatic, I have to go with the Stargazer set.
they are all lovely but like the bumblebee collection the most
I love them all but my favourite is the Ethereal writing set. So beautiful.
I love the Darwin design letter writing set.
stargazer
The Stargazer design is wonderful
I like the Stargazer and the Botanical designs
Love the Botanical collection
I love the botanicals and bees set. They are all lovely though.
A year of letters
Ethereal is beautiful and get my vote
The Darwin collection writing collection is my favourite x
The Stargazer design is lovely. Thanks for the giveaway.