Remember a few months ago when I made my list of things to accomplish this year? Number 7 was attending the National Stationery Show and now it’s finally here. Saturday I’m hopping a plane to go stay with my Stationery Academy roomie Caroline Hull (who is KILLIN’ it this year!) and check out all the fabulous paper action happening at NSS and Surtex. It’s almost an Alt Summit/Stationery Academy reunion; I can’t wait to catch up with Amber Housley, Whitney English, the Ampersand Design Studio girls, Jessica Bishop, Libbylane Press , Jenn Sprinkle… the list goes on and on!

I haven’t been to Manhattan a few years (remember this trip?) and while I won’t have a ton of time for buzzing around town, I will for sure be hitting up the following new-to-me picks —

• C. Wonder
• Kate Spade flagship
• M&J Trimming (I need some trim for our drapes and I can’t wait to ogle all the selections!)
• DreamDry
• Safavieh

And of course I might sneak in a visit to ABC Carpet & Home and Jonathan Adler. But we’ll see.  And hopefully some of my paper peeps will want to go out to Eataly. And Shake Shack. And … well, the list could potentially be endless.

Got any suggestions for new must-sees? And of course some must-eats?