October Stamps started in October 2000 because there were no Swedish words or sayings on the market. October Stamps® is a trademark, and still is, but the company changed the name to Fröken Paraiso Produktion AB some years ago.

In the beginning Eva-Terez ”ET” Gölin designed all the ”arty” stamps for October Stamps. Joanna ”Jojo” Paraïso, the owner of the company, prefered handwriting. After some years Jojo became friend with Photoshop and was able to design arty stamps as well. Exept from these two, there are some designs bought from external illustrators.

Materials for the more arty/collage stamps are from old photos, letters, texts, leafs and flowers, wooden types, feathers; text and patterns made of ink, water, brushs, pens and pencils. Some images are found in books with illustrations allowed to use, but we always processed them into a unique motif. There are many hours of work behind an
”October Stamp” even a regular typ writing text.

In the beginning the stamps were sold unmounted (UM) or on wooden blocks. Then came the EZ Mount foam and acrylic blocks.
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Jojo started to study nautical science in 2006 and Eva-Teréz became an images processing expert. During this years the business was not prioritized and there were no time to design and produce new stamps. But the stampers wanted the stamps and we decided to proceed with just the artistic stamps and produced some more and that we will sell untill they are out of stock. Jojo took her exam as master mariner 2012, got a job in the research group Human Factors within the maritime domain, alternating this with work at sea. Since 2019 she works as Search and rescue Mission Coordinater at the Swedish Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC).
ET is still an expert in image processing and work as teatcher at the University of Gothenburg. She also exhibit her own photo art.

The EZ Mount stamps is soon out of stock ...

BUT GUESS WHAT – Jojo took the desicion in 2018 to re-produce some of the best selling stamps and some other good oldies ! And only a little bit more than four years later – the ”only” is kinda joke – the stamps are soon up on Etsy.

In the middle of August 2023 we will release October”-stamps on CLEAR STAMPS, starting up with some sheets with clean motifs, hopefully followed by the more artistic ones late 2023.

Thanks!
Joanna ”Jojo” Paraïso
Owner of October Stamps