May 2012
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Rickshaw City Tote Flash Sale
Rickshaw Bags is having a flash sale today on their new City Tote bags. Get any one of these simple little bags for half off today. But act fast, this offer expires tomorrow (06/01/12).
Promo Code: totetastic
Order online or in store. Offer valid from 05/30/12 to 11:59 6/01/12 PST
Now, I need to go play with the color configurator… tweed or cordura, tweed or cordura?
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Link Love: Nerd Love
Just a short list this week of goodies this week.
Pens
Kaweco Lilliput Review (via Gourmet Pens)
Neil Gaiman uses a TWSBI (side bar to the BBC News article about sales of fountain pens rising)
Pencils
Midori Brass Bullet Pencil Review (Pen Addict)
El Casco Pencil Sharpener Review (via Pencil Talk)
Paper
Field Notes (on Pinterest)
Stillman & Birn Sketchbook overview (Ink Nouveau)
Quo...
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A peek at notebooks of artists and authors
A peek inside the handwritten dictionary of Nick Cave from 1984. From Nick Cave Collection at the Arts Centre in Melbourne.
Punk rock legends not your speed? How about a snippet from Mark Twain’s pocket notebook including what looks like an assortment of potential character names. I think “Syphilis Briggs” is my favorite.
Visit the Flavorwire for a dozen more notebooks from...
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Winner of the May Kaweco Giveaway!
Wow! We received 121 entries into the Celebrate Summer Kaweco Giveaway and all of the responses were wonderful. Thanks to everyone for sharing your Kaweco plans and thanks to JetPens for making it all possible.
Drum roll please for the Random Number Generator…
Looks like its comment #1, Rori! I’ll be contacting you by email to make arrangements for the delivery of your...
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Embellish it with Washi Tape
Notebook Stories embellished a plain black notebook with a bunch of wonderful, patterned washi tapes. What a great way to identify one plain black notebook from another. I am notorious for buying an endless stream of A5 black notebooks and just sticking a couple stickers on the cover to identify one from the other. But this…. this is a beautiful solution.
Check out the full post for other...
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Refilling a Kaweco with a syringe
With the Kaweco giveaway deadline fast approaching, I thought I would share my technique for refilling my Kaweco with ink. I don’t like being limited to just the cartridge ink colors available. Kaweco has a nice variety for cartridges but there are SO many other ink colors available that its nice to have an option for playing into your own whims.
First step is to collect the necessary...
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The last of the Hong Kong Pen P**n
These are some of the last photos from my trip to Hong Kong. These are some insider shots at the various office supply/pen shops I visited. A lot of stores are very touchy about photography so I had to be fast. Oh, the delicious colors and selections! I just had to bring a few photos back to share. If you ever needed a reason to visit Hong Kong, this might just be it.
This is a retractable...
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Link Love: Oh so late but oh so bountiful!
Pencil news:
The Leadhead’s Pencil Blog
Genuinely chewable pencil (via Advertising Age)
(pencil cup photo from Rad+Hungry)
Pen News:
Three shades of green Lamy (via The Writing Desk)
Even the proprietress of Lovely Bicycle occasionally needs to jot a few things down. Of course, she does it in style:
Fountain Pen 101 (via Goulet Pens)
Two reviews of the Pilot Petit, here and...
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Kaweco Special AL Fountain Pen
This clearly qualifies as pen porn: the Kaweco Special AL is an aluminum barreled, hexagonal-shaped, and longer-length (than the more common Kaweco Sport) to allow for standard international short converter cartridges. It is gorgeous. So far, my pen purchases have never exceeded $50 price mark but I might make an exception for this beauty. $118 and available in several nib sizes.
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Call for notebook recommendations
From The Well-Appointed Desk mailbag came this request from Danny:
I would appreciate your opinion. My favorite journal is the Rhodia Webnotebook. I like the fountain pen friendly, off-white colored paper in the 14 x 21 cm size. The only improvement I would like is for the journal to lay flat when open. Do you know of any journals that combine all these features? Thanks very much!
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Vintage Office Supply Overdose
My husband’s friend was kind enough to pass along an enormous collection of vintage office supplies from her father and grandfather’s collection.
The Denver Post pencil, the fountain pen, ruler and letter opener belonged to her grandfather, Carl P. Stangel, who was an architect in Omaha, NE. Many of the other pieces came from her father who was a bookkeeper near Salina, KS.
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Muji 0.5 Retractable (Don't LIME if I do)
Do I have a soft spot for anything lime green? Yes. I do. So when I spied the lime green retractable gel pen at the Muji store, I was weak to the temptation. Sadly, lime green is often a difficult color to read on paper, particularly if it has to fight with grids, lines or other markings that are often darker than the precious lime green ink. Sadly, the Muji 0.5 retractable suffered the same...
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Incense Cedar Sierra Slip-On: Nice pencil,...
The Incense Cedar Sierra Slip-On, the mechanical pencil with the unfortunate name, is a classic hexagonal wooden pencil that has been hollowed out and replaced with a standard mechanical mechanism. This pencil combines the best of both worlds — the fine smell of cedar wood, comfortable and classic look of the hexagonal and the no-sharpener-needed ease of mechanical pencils. It can be...
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Pilot Frixion Colors and Point 0.4
While in Hong Kong, I was able to pick up both the Pilot Frixion Point 0.4 (similar to a rollerball or gel ink pen) and two Pilot Frixion Colors (which are more akin to a felt tip pen).
I purchased a black and brown Frixion Color from a small stationery shop in Hong Kong called Chun Kee (no jokes please). On paper, the inks were not as dark and opaque as a Sharpie and the erasability (using...
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Quiet
While this may come as a surprise to some, to others it may not, but here it is, I am an introvert. A dyed in the wool, would rather be reading or doing something quiet, need a nap after a lunch date introvert. So I was interested in reading the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain which explores in detail the possible causes and influences...
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White-washed vignette
This lovely little secretary desk, with its rubbed white wash paint, surrounded by delicate pastels makes me want to settle down with a cup of tea and write letters all afternoon.
(via Conspicuous Style)
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Organize your desk, Ikea-style
This sleek little desk organizer almost makes me want to trek out to an Ikea. The Kvissle Desk Organizer $5.99.
(via IKEA)
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Link Love: The Catch-up Edition
I culled through three weeks of accumulated blog posts and thought I’d share a few gems you might have missed:
Design Y Notebooks review (via Pencil Things)
Note pad review: Fabriano EcoQua A5 dot rule (via East…West…Everywhere)
Gourmet Pens compares the Pelle Journal to the Midori Travelers Journal.
Fabulous comparisons of shades of green fountain pen ink in two separate...
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Sign it like Neil
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A reader recently asked Economy Pens what the best tool would be for a book signing. I remembered reading about the tools used by Neil Gaiman from an article from Netmouse on “Neil-Handling”. I thought I’d quote...
