Grace hosting a custom notebook-making workshop for the Fort Frances Lakers junior hockey team at the Fort Frances Public Library.
Fort Frances Times
Author of local literary reflections and community book columns.
Handmade With Care
Every planner is scored, cut, bound, and inspected individually.
Bringing the Warmth of Physical Books & Papercraft to Fort Frances
The Book Stop was born from a deep love for stories, tangible paper, and community connection in Northwestern Ontario. Grace started binding notebooks and planners by hand as a way to create organizational tools that feel personal, warm, and inspiring to use every single day.
Unlike mass-produced digital calendars or sterile spiral notebooks, each Book Stop planner features hand-selected decorative archival paper—ranging from botanical illustrations and vintage cartography to pressed wildflowers and gold foil accents.
When Grace isn't binding planners or curating crates of used books for local pop-up markets, she contributes book-related columns to the Fort Frances Times and hosts interactive papercrafting workshops for youth and community groups across town.
