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Pastime Enclosed

Gift boxes built around the things people love doing.

Each box starts with a pastime and packs the supplies for it. A puzzle book comes with a pencil. A seed-growing kit comes with a pot, seed-starting mix and a scoop.

Browse the opening collection and see the planned prices. Ordering will open once the shop is ready.

See the planned kits How the wrapped books work

Illustration of a planned kit.

Inside a planned kit

Prose & Sprout

A wrapped paperback to start tonight and seeds to plant whenever you’re ready.

See the full packing slip

Browse by pastime

Adult

Contemporary Fiction

Example card. Illustration, not a photo of a kit.

The book stays wrapped

Books arrive wrapped in kraft paper. A card on the front names the reading category and gives a one-sentence synopsis. The title stays hidden until the paper comes off.

Mystery is one genre you can request. You can also suggest something like romance, fantasy or historical fiction.

Try to peek

The paper stays on. The card gives you the reading category and a one-sentence synopsis. The title stays a surprise until you unwrap the book.

How reading categories work

See all 12 kits

  • Prose & Sprout

    A wrapped paperback and a seed-growing kit.

    9 itemsFor adults

    Filed under Reading, Growing

    Planned price $29

  • Margins & New Leaves

    A seed-growing kit and a wrapped paperback, with one notebook for keeping track of both.

    11 itemsFor adults

    Filed under Reading, Growing, Drawing & writing

    Planned price $34

  • Two Plots, One Windowsill

    Two different paperbacks and two seed-growing kits, one set for each person.

    18 itemsFor adultsFor two

    Filed under Reading, Growing

    Planned price $49

  • A Novel Steep

    Six tea portions, a mug and a wrapped paperback.

    9 itemsFor adults

    Filed under Reading, Tea & cocoa

    Planned price $32

  • Two Chapters, One Teatime

    Two mugs, eight tea portions and two different wrapped paperbacks.

    14 itemsFor adultsFor two

    Filed under Reading, Tea & cocoa

    Planned price $54

  • Plotlines & Pencil Lines

    A puzzle book for between chapters, with a wrapped paperback and tea.

    10 itemsFor adults

    Filed under Reading, Puzzles, Tea & cocoa

    Planned price $32

  • Bookmarks & Bright Ideas

    A notebook for reading notes, and a wrapped paperback to start them.

    4 itemsFor adults

    Filed under Reading, Drawing & writing

    Planned price $25

  • Fables & First Leaves

    A children’s story, a seed-growing kit and a drawing journal.

    12 itemsFor kids and families

    Filed under Reading, Growing, Drawing & writing

    Planned price $24

  • Tales & Pencil Trails

    Colored pencils, a notebook and a wrapped children’s story.

    4 itemsFor kids and families

    Filed under Reading, Drawing & writing

    Planned price $18

How ordering will work

  1. Choose a kit here. Each kit page lists what comes in the box and anything the recipient needs from home.

  2. When ordering opens, each kit’s button will take you to its Square listing. For kits with books, we plan to collect genre preferences there.

  3. Check out on Square, where you’ll see the shipping cost before you pay.

  4. We pack the box and wrap each book with a category card and a one-sentence synopsis.

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