PaperStory The Great Little Art Shop

04/09/2026

🎨 ONE TIN LEFT! 🎨

We’ve got just ONE tin left in stock of the brand-new Faber-Castell Polychromos 140 Coloured Pencils, including all 20 NEW shades! 🌈✏️

And the price is seriously good — even better than Amazon! 👀

But there’s more… 👇
✨ Buy the 140 tin and you’ll also get a 20% OFF code for loose Polychromos pencils, which you can use as many times as you like for an entire month!

So once you’ve got your 140 colours, you can top up your favourites or replace the ones you use most — at 20% off every time for the next month.
💕✏️

Perfect for anyone wanting to complete their Polychromos collection with the exciting new colours!

https://paperstory.co.uk/products/faber-castell-polychromos-artists-pencils-tin-of-140?variant=62484612186499

22/08/2026

Lou from Paper Panda has a fabulous giveaway offer on her page, check out Paper Panda for beautiful art.

GIVEAWAY - It’s not very often that I shove sales posts on here, so please feel free to ignore this one, but sometimes I must because it’s my job n’all that and I’m quite fond of eating.

This drawing was originally a pencil sketch. Then I scanned it and redrew it digitally because my scanner is rubbish. In doing so I recreated the flowers so they were actually real flowers, not ones of made up in my head like the original, and then made it glow in the dark. Or not. It’s your choice, really.

I’ve popped a few new things on the website, including this which I’ve called ‘Ostara’ like a proper fancy pants artist. Please go and see if you’d like to treat yo’self.

What’s the giveaway? Well, I actually wanted to have a run of these that I’d hand finished with gold, but I don’t think it works so I’ve got the one I faffed with that has a gold moon that I can gift to one of you if you say you’d like it in the comments. I mean, it’s not terrible, I’m just not loving it. And it’s important to love it. I’ll put a pic below.

Don’t like my sales pitch? Please scroll on by - but I’d love it if you shared this post or love reacted to help it get seen in a feed full of AI plop.
Ta chums!
Limpy Lou xx

P.S. I’ll choose someone Sunday evening at 9pm and reply to your comment. You’ll know it’s me as I’ll have the blue tick and I’ll say my cat’s name and waffle on about the colour of my pants or something…
UK only unless you don’t mind paying the postage 😘

22/08/2026

BAWDESWELL ARTIST SUPPLIES – SHOP UPDATE 🎨

Today is our last day open for a little while – but don’t worry, we are NOT closing down!

After today, we’ll be taking an approximately two-month break and temporarily closing the Bawdeswell shop while Angie Angie Park undergoes daily Chemoradiotherapy treatment.

As the treatment will severely affect her immune system, we need to minimise contact with others during this time.

💛 So if you’ve been meaning to pop in and see us, today is your chance! We’d absolutely love to see you before we take our little break.

We’ll be back as soon as we possibly can, and in the meantime, PaperStory will still be very much open online!

You can continue to support us by:

🛍️ Ordering online for delivery or collection
🌐 www.paperstory.co.uk

📞 Placing a telephone order: 01362 350530

Thank you, as always, for your incredible support, kindness and loyalty. This is only a temporary pause — we’ll be back! 💛🎨

19/08/2026

Angie Update

Angie will soon be starting a very intensive programme of daily chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments, running every day from Monday to Friday, for around six weeks.

During this time, she will be severely immunocompromised, and we have been advised to keep contact with others to an absolute minimum to help protect her from infection.

This means we will be temporarily closing our Bawdeswell shop for around two months, from August 23rd but don't worry we will be back !

Our online store will continue to operate as normal, with deliveries posted three times a week. We will support our local customers by offering in-store collections.

We’re incredibly grateful for your understanding and continued support while we take this time to focus on Angie and getting her through her treatment and well again. We will of course keep you updated with her progress .

15/08/2026

For anyone that pre ordered the Polychromos Pencils 20 set, remember you have unlimited use of your unique 20% discount code off loose stock of Polychromos Pencils until the end of August

15/08/2026

An update for anyone following Angie’s journey.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting us through shares and our GoFundMe link

The shares, comments, messages, words of encouragement, offers of help and, of course, the donations have been absolutely incredible.

Every single person who has supported us has made a difference, and we appreciate you more than we can say.

It has been truly overwhelming to see where this support has come from — family, school friends, RAF friends, nursing friends, friends of friends, hospital friends, our children’s friends, family friends, neighbours, customers (who we really see as friends, we always have).

There are so many people who have chosen to remain anonymous, then there are people we haven’t seen for well over thirty years and complete strangers who simply saw our story and wanted to help.

Thank you !!

You have all come together for us at a time when we have needed it most, and it has genuinely filled our hearts with hope and gratitude.

The cost of private treatment is daunting, if all goes well we are looking at just under £42,000, which includes the radiotherapy, chemotherapy consultant appointments, scans and follow-up care. The radiotherapy alone is £29,000.

To have raised over £16,000 already is just incredible. We honestly never wanted to have to ask for help, and we will never take a single donation, share or kind message for granted. The generosity of everyone who has supported us has allowed our story to reach far more people than we could ever have reached ourselves.

I also hope that, once I am through this, we can use what has happened to help make a difference for others.

We want to campaign for greater honesty, openness and transparency around cancer waiting times, the cancer pathway and the explanations patients receive when treatment is delayed. No one facing cancer should be left feeling uncertain about what is happening or how long they may have to wait, and should be treated with empathy and compassion.

And finally, a little update on my treatment.

I am booked in on Tuesday at Genesis Care Newmarket for my Radiotherapy mapping scan, with treatment due to start the following Tuesday. This is such a huge relief, although I now face a huge challenge ahead, of five and half weeks of daily Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy. This is a one off treatment, that can’t be repeated, so please keep all that positivity, hope and prayers coming my way, as I need faith that this will work, just as much as the treatment itself.

It is important to explain why we have chosen to fund private treatment. The NHS yesterday offered to start my treatment in mid-September, this would have been mid October but a combination of complaints brought the Oncology consultation forward.

However, my cancer has already shown progression in the six weeks between scans, including involvement of a lymph node, which is really frightening.

Given how quickly things have changed, we simply cannot take the risk of waiting any longer, the difference of waiting another four weeks isn’t an option.

Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, to everyone.

Your kindness has given us something incredibly precious at a very frightening time — hope, and a chance to get treatment started.

We will never forget what you have done for us, please keep sharing if you can.

Thank you Angie & Chris

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08/08/2026

⏰ We are open today until 16:00 hrs! Swing by the shop, check out the gorgeous new colours and snap up our latest Polychromos pencil deal before we close today.👇

The 20 NEW Faber-Castell Polychromos colours are officially IN STOCK! ✨

Artists, you do not want to miss this. We have the fabulous new 20-shade expansion available right now—and to celebrate, we are giving you 20% OFF the RRP!

🎨Whether you are looking to expand your palette or just love that buttery, lightfast Polychromos quality, these new shades are an absolute dream.

Which new colour are you most excited to try? Let us know below!

07/08/2026

Delivery. We have had another delivery of the new Polychromos pencils available, with 20% off the RRP.

https://paperstory.co.uk/products/faber-castell-polychromos-artists-pencils-tin-of-20-new-colours?_pos=1&_sid=4397f4c90&_ss=r&_su_rec=9rjbQdsZ1ncn9hmR0cr8DcV-51u8yT4zvb-S5imvKrMI3Q9kv-krqgf9B06gFfpX2DSXk7MhQhMGXQXEAUfVViq8x7PWhfAB4QU5tJSQfvDuo5MompU1c0ss3rpRw6M9fBCGPSUBi9bAr5Yo-JZYpZjy_tGA1Q44oVRjY3jIfGgWje33t6jgCphtdiD8jocXCDpmpVcFf5GE6EufCXjoBmwecCw1k-nR4kvKySV7WOLjEq-1wAX_RBawhJl6I59_z1xE2Mw5d6aM5TLMCJiI&_su_rec_id=225f7fb6-fe29-464c-88b0-a176606ad279-1786094448

03/08/2026

Please consider helping Angie if you can. We never imagined we would be in a position where we had to ask for help to access essential cancer treatment that should be available through the NHS. This has been an incredibly difficult decision, but we have reached the point where we have no other choice.

Angie has been on a cancer "Pathway" since May 13th 2026, after almost a year of repeated visits to the GP. A CT scan in May discovered a large tumour in her bowel and pelvis

The Cancer diagnosis was a shock, and was later proven to be a rare form of locally advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma, it effects only 0.03 % of the population with bowel cancer. It has unfortunately spread into the pelvis.

When you have a cancer diagnosis you are immediately set on a Cancer "Pathway" . The Pathway timescales are set by NHS England and the Department of Health, with the aim that every patient should have speedy care and commence their first treatment from the moment Cancer is suspected within 62 days.

The Pathway, is something we have learnt about ourselves, and was never communicated to us from the hospital. Angie's care has fallen entirely short, as we are now in August, and at day 90, we are no closer to a treatment plan from the NHS and way over the national targets, yet Angie is still waiting to see an oncologist ! That's three months of knowing she has cancer and feeling helpless.

We have discovered that the Norfolk & Norwich is unfortunately one of the worst performing trusts in the country for Pathway targets, they are 8th from the bottom of all trusts in England.

We were dealt another blow recently, and informed last week on the phone that her pathology report shows that this is a particularly aggressive and fast-growing Cancer. Knowing this has made the delays even more frightening and frustrating and prompted us to set up the GoFundMe to access care more quickly. The NHS have had this information since July the 8th, but only shared this with us at the end of July when pushed for pathology information.

Angie has had emergency surgery for an obstruction caused by the tumour and whilst in hospital was informed she would start Chemoradiotherapy within weeks. This hasn't happened, or even been planned despite multiple communication with heads of department.

Angie hasn't been able to work for many months, as the tumour is pressing on sensitive nerve endings, causing increasing pain, this is typically a very difficult area of pain to manage because of the nature of where it is. She is now taking regular morphine (MST) tablets as well as Oramorph and Paracetamol to just to get through each day, but the pain continues to worsen and we are finding that every week she is needing to increase the medication. Which is obviously concerning as we know this tumour is fast growing.

As a family, we have made the decision to seek private cancer care, because we simply cannot afford to wait any longer. This could mean the difference between life and death. We have been let down, and want to fight this cancer the best we can.

If you are able to support us, we would be so incredibly grateful. Every donation, no matter how small, will help us access the treatment Angie desperately needs and give her the best possible chance to fight this horrible illness

If you aren't able to donate, simply sharing the GoFundMe page would mean the world to us.

Thank you for reading, for your kindness, and for standing beside us during the hardest time of our lives. ❤️

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