In high school, Kristen Bromiley spent five years working in a small Canadian office-supply store — a place somewhere between Staples and The Office, equal parts fluorescent lights and endless aisles of paper. To most people, it was an ordinary retail job. But for Kristen, it became an early education in the beauty of tools, materials, and the subtle rituals that shape how we write and organize our lives.

She learned to appreciate the weight of good paper, the satisfaction of clean structure, the quiet discipline of arranging and refining. What started as teenage part-time work unfolded into a lifelong fascination with craft, quality, and meaningful objects.

Years later, Kristen founded Hayda Studios, a creative agency known for its intentional design, editorial clarity, and refined visual identity work. Through building brands, telling stories, and shaping digital worlds, she deepened her understanding of how people interact with objects — not just visually, but emotionally. Design became a philosophy: everything we hold, use, or keep should reflect care, purpose, and artistry.

The journals emerged from that same philosophy.

Handcrafted in Los Angeles from premium Italian full-grain vegetable-tanned leather, each piece is made slowly and deliberately, with texture, patina, and time in mind. Every journal is meant to become an artifact — softening at the edges, darkening with the oils of your hands, evolving as you evolve. No two will ever age alike.

These leather journals are where Kristen’s worlds meet:
the early love of stationery and order;
the creative rigor of a design studio;
and the romance of making something that is meant to be touched, used, and kept.

What began under the hum of retail lighting now continues in a Los Angeles studio—still guided by the same belief:
well-made objects can change the way we think, create, and remember.