The R Nichols Shop

Specialties

The R. Nichols Shop carries note cards, stationery, invitations, greeting cards and gifts. All products feature designs and illustrations by artist R. Nichols.

Personalization of note cards is always free at The R. Nichols Shop. It only takes a couple of minutes and you leave with a great and easy gift.

History

Established in 1997.

I began this business 14 years ago — in the dark windowless basement of my parents’ home. I wasn’t padlocked down there or anything — I was allowed to come out. Finding myself searching for a career and purpose, I drew on my 6^th grade skills (cutting and pasting) and created some tiny collages which in turn became a small line of greeting cards. Mrs. Dater, my 6^th grade teacher (at the Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC), was paramount in my artistic development (and discipline). Not only did she make us type (6^th grade, remember) a 40 page paper on Simon Bolivar (I am a solid typist today), demand that we wrote only with cartridge pens (which I still prefer), require us to do monumental artwork in cut paper (which consumed my weekends and is the reason R. Nichols exists today) — but she gave us a secret handshake each day when we left. I still remember that handshake today. I took my tiny collection of stationery and pounded the pavement, knocking on doors. I found that the doors w