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Introducing the Homestead Collection and Handmade Gift Baskets
New foods and personal care items grown and prepared on our homestead, plus a handmade gift basket sampler.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines 2025
What dates to order your holiday gifts by to receive them in time for December 25 with multiple shipping carriers and conservative estimates
Leather Handles and Wraps for Exteriors
Leather handles and wraps work great outdoors: insulating from heat / cold and providing grip and resistance. Pros / cons and maintenance needs.
New Product! Introducing Travel Yacht (Yatzy) Dice Game Set
New product announcement! Introducing a lightweight travel kit for the public domain version of a family-favorite dice game. Rules of play, dice, carrying pouch and more included.
Top 3 Games for Lobbies and Waiting Rooms
Hotel lobbies and salon waiting rooms provide unique versions of popular games for on-brand quiet guest entertainment: with play times that match wait times.
Step-by-Step: How to Use a Conway Buckle
About the Conway buckle, a flexible harness belt closure, and a step-by-step photo tutorial on how to use it.
Step-by-Step Guide: Wrap a Gift with a Bandana
A step-by-step photo tutorial to an everyday and easy-to-remember gift wrap, using a bandana and the Japanese art of furoshiki.
Walnut Studiolo Earns Google's "Top Quality Store" Badge
Google has awarded us with their Top Quality Store badge, recognizing excellence in customer experience shopping online.
New Map Tool Shows Slower USPS Deliveries by Zip Code
Where it's impacting, how much it's changed, and what comes next. A new USPS initiative slows mail to ~75% of the US, including our rural location.
Special Offer: Discounts on Leather Handle and Wrap Projects
Get coupon codes to "buy more, save more" on large handle and wrap orders with our BIGPROJECT discount series! Plus: Tips on planning and budgeting for handles in remodels and new projects,
Updated Cribbage Rules Minibook
Included with the Original Travel Cribbage Board, our updated minibook is a fold-out guide with simplified cribbage rules, point-counting cheat sheet, and course of play, and tips in a small, packable format.
Relative Sizes of the Drawer Pull Collection: Side-to-Side Comparison Mock-up and Table
New tools and resources to help you pick the best leather handles and pulls for your project: image renderings showing relative scale and a human model, and a data table with dimensions
"Your Gift Is On Its Way!" Printable Card for Late and Delayed Gifts
Print at home: the solution for gift givers dealing with last-minute or gifts lost in the mail. Our creative folding origami design is memorable and handmade.
Small and Lightweight Games for Preppers Survival Packs
History shows us preppers need small, lightweight games for emergency survival. Plus: chart comparing travel game sizes, number of players, and weights.
Introducing the 2025 Gratitude Calendar
Introducing our first calendar, the 2025 Gratitude Calendar, and a special offer for the 2024 holidays!
Introducing “Version 2” Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards
Travel Mexican Train for lefties, too! We redesigned our popular Double 12 Travel Domino Playing Cards with an adaptation for left-handed folks, legibility improvements, and more new features. Read on to learn more about the redesign: what, why, and how!
The Games They Carried: The History of Soldier Pocket Games
We explore the history of soldier pocket games - what games they played and what they looked like - and how it inspired modern pocket game designs. A pocket-sized game was kept in most soldier’s packs, good for morale. But games also became a part of the war effort, used for spycraft, training and communications. And the war evolved and innovated our favorite games.
Walnut Offers Referral Discounts and Affiliate Commissions
Creators, influencers, and fans can now earn discounts and even money on referrals to Walnut Studiolo! In this post, we explain what this means, and why we're doing it.
New Product! Introducing Travel Backgammon
New product announcement! Introducing a creative new classic game design from Walnut Studiolo for travel: folding leather backgammon board with all the accessories: dice, doubling cube, and pegs for secure play.
How to Play Backgammon: Simplified Rules of Play
These are our simplified rules of play for learning backgammon, an ancient board game that still brings a lot of modern fun, particularly with the addition of the American doubling cube!
How to Restore Shine to Brass Parts on Leather
Brass and leather are two natural materials that go together beautifully, and even a little tarnish is nothing to worry about. If you wish, you can return brass to its original natural shine easily and quickly with a cleaning product like Brasso.
How to Wrap a Handrail in Leather with Walnut's Oswego Kit
How to wrap infinitely long lengths of rail, handle, or bar (like a bannister, handrail, stairway railing) in American veg-tan using the Oswego Leather Wrap Kit.
How We Use Up-Cycled Packaging with Care
In this post, we share how we live our sustainability values and impress customers with our upcycled packaging program!
Artisans Cooperative: An ACTUALLY Handmade Marketplace
Announcing the Grand Opening of Artisans Co-op, a BETTER e-commerce marketplace for ACTUALLY Handmade Goods. Walnut Studiolo is proud to list our authentic handmade goods on the Artisans Cooperative marketplace because:
