Hand-drawn vintage postage stamp featuring silhouettes of seabirds in flight against a sage green background, illustrated by The Small Town Studio.
Hand-drawn vintage postage stamp featuring a classic black-and-white marbled composition notebook against a cream background, illustrated by The Small Town Studio.
Hand-drawn vintage postage stamp featuring a fossilized shark tooth with a brown root and gray crown against a light gray background, illustrated by The Small Town Studio.
Open handwritten travel journal with Polaroid photographs and sketches from a blueberry-picking trip, held against the sandy shoreline and Gulf waters.
A hand holding a collection of colorful seashells in a large scallop shell above the clear turquoise waters of the Gulf.

Hi, I’m Bee. The creator behind Beech Bum Blvd.

I love writing. My mind is loud and filled with nonstop questions, ideas, daydreams, to-do lists, memories and endless thoughts. Writing helps me quiet the chaos. In a world of spellcheck and evolving AI, I love that writing forces me to spell and form actual human sentences. It humbles me, more than I’d like to admit these days. 

Pages from my notebook

My medium is a generic composition notebook that costs less than a dollar and a Pilot G-2 pen in Bold 10. I love the way this pen rolls onto the wide-lined pages. It feels organic yet controlled at the same time. It lets my thoughts flow out of my brain and into the world without constraining them like each thought is attached to the one before it. Writing in an 85-cent composition notebook is exciting. It removes all the pressure to write your best and lets you simply write free. I love bringing my book to the beach and not worrying if it gets a little salty or sandy.

A classic black-and-white marbled composition notebook held up against the turquoise Gulf waters and sandy shoreline of Manasota Key, Florida.

When I catch a glimpse of the marbled pattern, my heart skips a beat. I know the contents contain documentation of the little things in my life that felt important enough to jot down so I’ll never forget. 

Physically writing in a book feels like a photo album of my thoughts. A tangible vessel I get to flip through and revisit a memory or see where I was at a point in time in my life. 

Hand-drawn illustration of a classic black-and-white marbled composition notebook with a black pen beside it, illustrated by The Small Town Studio.

I decided to create a digital version of parts of my book because I wanted to share my little paradise in a medium that feels more natural to me. I started to share on social media and capture moments but as an introvert, I struggle with the concept. I love taking photos and videos and sharing them but I find it more difficult to share a more detailed version of myself. So I thought writing these postcards might help me come out of my shell a little.

A hand holding a collection of colorful seashells in a large scallop shell above the clear turquoise waters of the Gulf.
I love using a big shell when I forget my shell bag

Every time my boyfriend and I go on a trip, I always get a postcard, but I never mail it. And after moving to Florida, I felt inspired and had the urge to write it all down. From shark tooth hunting to renovations on our Old Florida Cottage, I want to document it all.

A sandy beach path lined with sea oats and palm trees leads to the Gulf beneath a pastel sunset sky on Manasota Key, Florida. Copy
Paradise on Manasota Key, FL

Even if no one reads these words, it’s exciting to get it all down.

Hope you enjoy these postcards and they bring a little sunshine wherever you are.