It’s always the simple things. Our Dad loved nothing more than to spend the day taking a drive. So many Sundays of our childhood, and virtually every Father’s Day was spent going for a drive somewhere in the outskirts of Los Angeles: Malibu Canyon, Sand Canyon, Pearblossom Highway, Aqua Dulce, Decker Canyon, Santa Paula, Apple [...]

(photo print by Etsy seller TCaponePhoto)

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream month?  I didn’t either until today, but as far as I am concerned, every month is ice cream month! There is no sweet treat that Susie and I adore more than good old ice cream.

Both of our first jobs were working [...]

Happy Friday!

Our mouse model today looks like he’s saying “Hip-Hip-Hooray!”. We are leaving the studio a bit early today to have our last “after school adventure day” with our siblings. There are 6 of us and the youngest is graduating high school this year. For 18 years, we’ve picked one (or two or three) of [...]

With Mother’s Day only a few days away, we wanted to take a moment to remember our Mom. She passed away when we were still kids and not a day goes by that we don’t think about her.  She loved us and gave so much to us in the brief time we had together.  She [...]

In the early days of Rock Scissor Paper, it was just me and Susie. We tackled all the tasks ourselves, even when we had no idea what we were doing.  Sales? Marketing? Production? Order fulfillment? Designing?  We did it all without any help.  We often would sit and dream out loud about how nice it [...]

Our anniversary celebration continues this week with a few more posts looking back into our past. What you are looking at in the picture above is a layout of artwork for our printer. If any of you out there took a Graphic Arts or Printing Shop class in high school prior to the digital revolution, [...]

As I mentioned before, in the beginning of our company, Heidi & I used a variety of clip art for our designs. Dover Publications had (and still does) a huge selection of pictorial archive books with beautiful and elaborately engraved illustrations from the 19th century.  We probably have over 50 of these books. All are [...]

In celebration of our anniversary, we are continuing down memory lane. Above is a picture of our very first street fair (Heidi is in the picture hiding behind a journal.) Up to to just a couple of weeks before this picture was taken, we were exclusively doing custom invitation designs for clients (or at least [...]

This week Heidi & I are celebrating a big anniversary…Rock Scissor Paper is 17 years old! Wow, where did the time go? Over the next week or so, We’ll be sharing some fun pictures from the beginnings of our business and some of our first products. Eeek! It’s kind of hard to look at some [...]

This past year we introduced a line of coffee mugs to our rock scissor paper collection. We weren’t sure how they would be received, but we personally really liked the idea and thought we should take the leap into this new product. To our delight they have been a huge hit. [...]