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Our Jewish Ceremony

June 15, 2021

I converted to Judaism after a year-long course put together by four local temples. I found the perfect rabbi after meeting four San Jose…

Our sweet elopement

May 20, 2021

Casey and I decided to have a pandemic elopement. We don’t regret it, because we would have chosen a small, intimate ceremony anyway. Despite…

Sanborn County Park

March 15, 2021

We had planned a long engagement but with our out-of-state move looming closer, and no end to the pandemic in sight, we decided to…

Scrapbooking winter break

January 24, 2021

I love getting done with a scrapbook! Then it gets to go on my shelf, with all my other travel memories. I create one…

Almaden Quicksilver Park

January 22, 2021

The best part about living in South San Jose is that you are right up along the mountains. It can’t get any better than…

Monte Bello Preserve

January 19, 2021

Monte Bello is a special hiking spot Casey and I go to near Palo Alto. It is our favorite place because it is never…

Nisene Marks State Forest

January 12, 2021

Casey and I visited Nisene Marks at the beginning of our myceulium obsession. We were just learning about mushrooms and getting excited when we…

Capitola Beach

January 5, 2021

We’ve been living in the Bay Area for four years now but we have yet to spend too much time at any of the…

Oakland/SF

September 29, 2020

Quarantine makes me nostalgic for places I’ve been, even if they’re not my favorite places. I haven’t left the house really, since March. As…

San Luis Obispo

July 11, 2020

My friend was living in LA and I was a new transplant in San Jose. We wanted to meet but didn’t want to drive…

❤️ I'm Katie, or Katya, or Catalina, depending on where I am.

💜 This blog is partly a scrapbook, partly a travel diary. Collecting reciepts, maps, postcards, and pamphlets is how I reflect back on each place.

💙 I've been to twenty countries. I've traveled extensively through Russia. My bucket list still includes Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America.

💚 I currently live in Vermont. Previously, I have lived in these places: Tucson, Arizona; San Jose, California; Samara, Russia; and over twenty years in Austn, Texas. You can find posts about Austin here.

💛 My husband and I had the perfect elopement in Saratoga, California in 2021. You can find posts about it here.

🧡 Cute Little Paper Blog started as a Tumblr site in 2011 and I have been collecting paper ever since. Now I'm on Wordpress. You can find posts about my love of stationery here.