Welcome to HEAVY: The OMOI Blog

In times as confusing as ours it can seem silly, even pointless, to plan anything. Why bother, when so many things are changing? How do we plan for a future...

On making it through 2020 thanks to our favorite analog companions.

At the height of lockdown we found ourselves reading, journaling, sitting at the kitchen table and staring outside over tea and cookies. In between news doomscrolling, sleeping, coordinating on neighborhood...

A brief meditation on slowing down.

Find out why a single letter determines the two unique meanings of these oft-confused words.

While we offer many small goods for home, we would hardly consider ourselves specialists. Yet over the years we have sold an admirable selection of items that can make a house...

A wide open space where you can work and think, without distraction. That's what a desk is for.  A desk is not for collecting clutter, dirty dishes, or outdated mail. A desk...

Welcome to the third installment of our Well Organized Life series, where we showcase our favorite tools and techniques for... what's that? A well organized life! Today we're going to talk about...

Welcome to the second installment of our Well Organized Life series, where we showcase our favorite tools and techniques for... what's that? A well organized life! Today our focus is how to pack...

Welcome to the first installment of our Well Organized Life series! Keep Reading If: You're frequently carry around too much stuff (just in case!)  It takes forever to find anything...

That's a saying I got in a fortune cookie once, and I've kept it in my wallet ever since.  That said, now is a really good time to send someone a letter,...

I had a friend in college who was from Tokyo and, during a conversation about stationery, said that if I ever made it to her home city, to visit the...

"A place for everything and everything in its place" is a saying we never get tired of around here. Sounds a little strict at first, and maybe for some it...

We have a handsome assortment of notebooks at the shop, and with the spring semester starting for lots of people this past week, we laid out some of our favorite...