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ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Hanny, your shopkeeper and friend at Cafe Analog 🙂
Welcome aboard!

Cafe Analog is an online stationery cafe/webshop and a virtual community of stationery lovers—where you can find curated high-quality stationery items like wooden stamps, pens, handmade paper, brass charms, sticker sets, and washi tapes—including ones specially designed for Cafe Analog by women-led creative studios and female artists/illustrators all around the world.

We’d like to think of Cafe Analog as a space where people can enjoy the analog part of their day; from writing in their journal with a fountain pen to sending postcards, from paper collaging to ink swatching, from making stamped paper gift wraps to organizing stationery supplies. There is a joy to be found in taking a break from the digital world and vice versa—and we hope to share that joy with you 🙂

I love connecting people who share a love for stationery items, journaling, crafting, good design, and creative/slow living. Isn’t it wonderful to be surrounded by people who love and appreciate these things as much as you do?

CAFE ANALOG: A LOVE STORY, A LEGACY.

Cafe Analog started in 2017 as a passion project of DesirĂ©e Oude Groothuis, who has a high appreciation for the aesthetics, functionality, and quality of Japanese stationery items in particular, as well as Asian stationeries in general. Fun fact: she was once featured in a Chinese newspaper for her love of stationeries and dubbed ‘The Crazy Aunt’!

At the end of 2022, however, DesirĂ©e decided to sell Cafe Analog because she wished to spend more time with her husband and her family. DesirĂ©e passed on the business to Hanny, a customer of Cafe Analog who shares DesirĂ©e‘s passion for stationeries and journaling. Another fun fact: when DesirĂ©e and Hanny met for the first time at a stationery meet-up, Hanny drew DesirĂ©e’s portrait on a guestbook! 

Today, Hanny owns Cafe Analog and manages the ins and outs of its operations, while Desirée acts as Cafe Analog’s Fairy Godmother—provides a holding hand by giving guidance, advice, and consultations, as well as a shoulder to cry on (when things get a bit overwhelming).

Both Desirée and Hanny are still dreaming about having a physical Cafe Analog one day: a gezellig stationery cafe and shop—where journalers, snail mailers, letter writers, paper crafters, Postcrossers, stationery lovers, and other creative souls can meet and connect over a cup of good coffee or tea; geeking over stationery items and sharing the passion for everything analog!

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