JANUARY
01A still, bright kitchen
A pot of dried bean soup, a tissue-paper garland in the shape of small stars, and a simple set of paper place cards for the table.
A monthly envelope
Issue 014 · arriving nowA small envelope,
one season at a time.
Hearthmail bundles a recipe, a decorating idea, and a paper craft into one decorated envelope. It lands at the start of each month, addressed by hand, ready for the kitchen table.
- Ships
- The 1st of each month
- Inside
- Recipe · Decorate · Craft
- Form
- One flat envelope
A HOUSE LETTER · POSTED THE FIRST
Recipe · 04
Roasted squash, sage brown butter
For two, or one very hungry cook on a Sunday.
Styling notes
A short list of things to put on the table.
Craft
A small luminary.
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This month, in the envelope
A decorated envelope for slow oven, shorter days.
Each issue is addressed by hand and posted flat. Open it at the kitchen table and you are caught up — a roasted squash chapter, a mood board for an autumn table, and a paper luminary you cut and fold in the kitchen.
Issue 014 · October
A decorated envelope, addressed by hand.
Cream stock, a wax seal, one pressed leaf tucked under the string. The flap is partially lifted in the illustration so you can see the hand of it.
What arrives in October
A short, autumnal box of paper.
- A four-page note on squash, sage brown butter, and what to do with a slow oven.
- A tablescape mood board on cream — pinned linen, a brass taper, one bruised apple, a pressed leaf.
- A paper luminary — one sheet, scored and folded, glows on the mantel when the lights go down.
Posted October 1, arrives flat.
A few recent issues.
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02Lentils, linen, and long light
A braise for the first cool evening, a sketch for a spring tablescape, and an oversized seed packet folded from one sheet.
JULY
03Tomato season, slow
A small canning pamphlet, a cicada-print napkin set painted with a block, and a recipe for the kind of dinner that goes on too long.
OCTOBER
04Slow oven, shorter days
A short chapter on roasted squash, a mood board for autumn tables, and a paper luminary you cut and fold in the kitchen.
Inside the envelope
Three paper goods, woven through one season.
Most letter clubs pick one strand — recipes, or crafts, or styling — and build a kit around it. Hearthmail keeps all three, and pulls them toward the same month, so the envelope reads as a small ritual rather than a pile of paper.
01 — Recipe
A small card, a small book
A recipe card or a four-page mini cookbook, written for one season at a time. Dishes to put on the table, drinks to pour, bakes to mark the calendar with.
02 — Decorating
A mood board for the room
A loose mood board, a tablescape sketch, or a page of styling notes. Enough to set a table, fill a mantel, or just shift the room toward the month ahead.
03 — Paper craft
A project for the kitchen table
A paper or mixed-media project, designed to be finished in an evening. Cut, fold, glue, and pin it to the wall — or write a letter on the back.
The recipe and the styling always share a season. The craft is sometimes seasonal, sometimes just an evening’s quiet project — a paper thing to make while something braises.
How it comes together
A small working team, plus a few guest hands, mailed flat each month.
- 01
A theme is set in the calendar
Each kit is built around one season. The kitchen, the mantel, and the table — pulled toward the same month, for once.
- 02
We cook, draw, and fold
A small working team writes and tests the recipes, illustrates the pages, and lays the kit out as one envelope of paper goods.
- 03
Guest contributors layer in
Home cooks, illustrators, and stationers join a few issues a year. A new hand at the table — never a generic box of branded paper.
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It arrives, flat, on the first of the month
One decorated envelope. Open it at the kitchen table, set a timer for an hour, and you are caught up with the season.
Priced like an indie letter club, not a Cratejoy box.
A kit is in the low double digits — postage calculated by destination at checkout. We are a small team, and we keep the overhead flat.
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