About Us
THE NOT BUSY COMPANY 🍁
I've spent years looking for things worth getting lost in.
Especially the ones you might never think to choose for yourself.
For me, it started with a cherry tree.
There was a perfect fork in the branches that made a seat, and I'd climb up with a book and disappear for hours. No plan. No schedule. Just a place to land and something worth sinking into.
I still love that feeling.
The world gets louder. The days get fuller. But the urge to disappear into something good never really goes away. Life just gets better at interrupting it.
The Not Busy Company exists to make the disappearing part easier.
I've learned that some of the best choices aren't the ones we'd make for ourselves. Good curation shouldn't simply give you more of what you already know. Sometimes it should nudge you sideways into something unexpected. A book you wouldn't have picked up. A puzzle you might have passed by. Something you didn't know you were looking for until it found you.
Every retreat starts with the thing at its centre: a book worth following somewhere unexpected, or a puzzle capable of quietly taking over an afternoon.
Then I build the retreat around it.
Tea worth putting the kettle on for. Treats worth lingering over. Small details that make the experience feel considered rather than assembled.
Nothing random. Nothing extra. Everything earns its place.
The result isn't simply a box of things.
It's a few hours already waiting for you.
Open the tea. Start the book. Spread out the puzzle.
Lose track of time.
Reader's Retreat and Puzzler's Retreat are curated and packed on Vancouver Island and shipped across Canada as one-time escapes, subscriptions, and gifts.
For readers, puzzlers, and people who never quite lost their talent for disappearing.
***We are a Canadian company located on beautiful Vancouver Island, BC.