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Anahata Katkin
Artist, boutique maker, founder of PAPAYA!, PAPAYA! Living and Jupiter Row.In persuit of creative nectar.
Interests: travel, design, painting, boutique & retail arts, photography, paper arts, illustration, mixed media, graphic arts, workshops,
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My brother, Alex is getting married this summer and my soon-to-be, sister-in-law, Kayla asked me to make them some custom wedding invitations. I don't do custom design projects anymore, but this was a special opportunity. Inspired by some suggestions from... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2015 at Anahata Katkin
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Our second store, Jupiter Row, is now alive and thriving on the Ashland Plaza! We had a wonderful opening night a week ago and we've been humming ever since. The whole process of curating this beautiful, boutique has truly been... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2015 at Anahata Katkin
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We are very excited to announce the Grand Opening of Jupiter Row. Tuesday May 12th from 5-8 pm we will be celebrating our new curated, Northwest inspired boutique. Come by to help us fill the space with local neighbors, friends... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2015 at Anahata Katkin
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We're so happy they're back we're doing cartwheels in the parking lot and celebrating with customer calls, packed boxes, and kisses to our UPS man (who makes the world go round)! So if you've been waiting to get your hands on some of our most popular accessories, the wait is... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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These images are a sight for sore eyes from talented artist/ photographer, Laura Pritchette. Thanks to a lovely write up via Artifact Uprising (our very favorite print-on-demand resource, and archiving activists) we stumbled onto her gorgeous work. Her paint pellette is enought to brighten our springy days in the office. Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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We've recently had the opportunity to work with the talented photographer, Feda Eid. Known for her editorial style and beautiful work with women. We teamed up with her recently for some lovely PAPAYA! inspired shots. See them all on our Temple Rose Lookbook. Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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A hand painted "Wheel of Life" by Anahata Katkin. Just a sneak preview of design elements that will be showing up in coming collections. Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Our new Zodiac Collection, featuring our classic muses, will be arriving shortly. And there's a beautiful little lookbook up to celebrate this personalized series of prints and cards. Beautiful gold details and matte papers. They'll be arriving any day now and we'll keep you posted. Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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One Love...One Heart. Preview of PAPAYA! summer debuts 2015, by founder, Anahata Katkin. Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Las Vegas showroom ended up having a lovely palette. And the PAPAYA! design team worked to make the showroom come to life. Using hand applied stencils on the floor and geometric paint on the walls, the boring box took on a new PAPAYA! life, complete with disco ball planter! We're... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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We've been away so long! And there's so much to share. Since the winter season we've opened our very first showrooms. This has been a wonderful process for all of us. And it feels really good to have a place to call our own and let our collections shine. In... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Oh sweet, little blog o mine. It's been surely neglected. Is it just me or is everyone trying to juggle the instagram, blog balance? I've been here for ten years and everything online has changed in the time since I... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at Anahata Katkin
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2015 weekly planners for the holidays. Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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After turning the corner post-Halloween, November feels so welcome here. The sun is out in Southern Oregon and the chilly weather feels just right. Around here we're cocooning in ideas and plans for the New Year. Our entire team is working behind the scenes on new product categories and some... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Many of you have heard that two of our PAPAYA! owners Gina Katkin and Eli Katkin teamed up to open BRICKROOM. A beautiful, extensively renovated, cafe and bar in the heart of Ashland, Oregon. A gathering house directly upstairs from our flagship boutique, PAPAYA! Living. So naturally we're pretty excited... Continue reading
Posted Oct 27, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Good morning dreamers, makers and shakers. It already feels like theres a little extra buzz around the turning of the tides, and moving into 2015. Maybe it's the "blood moon" we just had or maybe it's the changing seasons? But the desire to think ahead and make room for new... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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This fun piece was part of a collaborative exercise I participated in with Floral Bowley and Alena Hennessy while staying in San Miguel, Mexico last January (see more here). We made four large scale paper panels and shared the process... Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2014 at Anahata Katkin
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This week PAPAYA! announced that we are reintroducing our Luxe Totes. Back by popular demand these hefty, over sized totes come with hand silk screened, shimmery linings, durable oil cloth material and helpful interior pockets. There are some lovely new... Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2014 at Anahata Katkin
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I just had this big boy scanned. It is a whopping 53 X 72 inches and now sits happily at Brickroom Cafe & Bar (my familys ratuarant). I can't wait to play with it and find a way to put... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2014 at Anahata Katkin
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We've been on Instagram a lot these days. If you haven't made the switch from Facebook to Instagram, we are here to encourage you to take the plunge. And if you haven't found us there yet, come visit. You can also follow PAPAYA! co-founder, Anahata Katkin to see more behind-the-scenes... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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They're here! The PAPAYA! Travel Cups have arrived. They are super fun and vivid designs made for on-the-go hydrating, smoothies, picnics and plain ol yard parties. Lots of pretty designs to choose from. Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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Just a few days left of Virgo Season. Happy Harvest... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2014 at PAPAYA! BLOG
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For PAPAYA! winter collections 2015... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2014 at Anahata Katkin
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Yep, We're hiringin our head offices! If you're fun loving- but go getting... If you're truly good with people, you like serving a biggervision and you can easily get down with the nitty-gritty details of what that means... If you're... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2014 at Anahata Katkin
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Finally putting this painting I did while in Mexico last winter- to good use for PAPAYA! It's mostly acrylic on paper. Which is a great trick if you're traveling btw. You can use lots of big, high quality papers and... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2014 at Anahata Katkin