Posts tagged notebook

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 here (via Tyler Dahl)

Other stuff:

• How to properly write a letter (via Pentel)
• Stillman & Birn sketchbook overview (via Goulet Pens)
• Eleven Thank You Notes from Famous People (via MentalFloss)
• A little history about Letraset (via Creative Pro)
• Rite in the Rain notebook, carrying case and pen review (via Gourmet Pens)

Shout outs to all my Twitter contacts for keeping me posted about reviews, products and all sorts of fun goodies. Follow me or keep in the loop at @wellapptdesk.

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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!

In my opinion, this is the great triumvirate of notebook wishes: right size, right paper, right format. For the US crowd, he’s looking for a 5x8”. For the UK audience, that’s A5 size. Off-white and lays flat. Sounds like a hardcover. There was no mention of line width or grid or blank but let’s toss those into the mix as well.

I like the Leuchtturm 1917 but the paper is a warm white, not cream and not quite as thick as the Rhodia webnotebook stock. As for laying flat, any sewn binding should be able to take the abuse of being opened wider than flat to loosen it up to get it to lay closer to flat but my Leuchtturm 1917 does not lay perfectly flat either.

Do you have a recommendations for him?

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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 entries: 1 & 2 (via FPN)

Also, while I was away, The Well-Appointed Desk got a couple shout-outs:

• Notebook obsessed on Notebook Stories
• In the Friday Link Share on Rhodia Drive for our Travel Tips for traveling with fountain pens
• My review of the AutoPoint TwinPoint mechanical pencil was mentioned in the April Carnival of Pen, Pencil and Paper on Economy Pens.

Finally, I’d like to send a shout out to Melissa of Craftgasm and the National Postal Museum for the letter writing social they hosted on Saturday. If I had not been crippled with debilitating jet lag, I may have mentioned it sooner — like in time for people to actually go. Mea culpa.

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Link Love

With all the furious packing and trip-planning, its been a bit of a “slow news week” here at The Well-Appointed Desk. Here’s this week’s link love. Enjoy!

• When pencil sharpening becomes a how-to book (via Woodclinched)

• Eudora Welty’s desk (via Oprah, thanks to Missive Maven)
• The importance of journaling (via Modern Vintage Man)
• A Review of Jet Pens’ Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration Notebook (via Konigi, thanks to The Pen Addict)

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Link Love

After a week full of various technical difficulties including my WordPress Template eating itself and my Twitter account getting hacked, I’m ready for a little levity. So here’s a few links I collected this week that will hopefully make you happy too.

This mail love cartoon was found on Fountain Pen Geeks and was created by Poofytoo.

Speaking of fountain pens, have you ever heard of Diplomat fountain pens? If not, check out this overview from the Australian online stationery shop Notetaker on their blog called The Field Notes (not to be confused with the brand of pocket notebooks called Field Notes).

Tonya Stabb created this cleaver wall unit to hold and display her colored pencils.

If you haven’t discover the blog, Letters of Note, I recommend that you start with this post: I Like Words. (tip from Exaclair)

Nation State is another great online shop from Australia for, as they describe it, notebooks, pens and pencils and other stuff like this Scrabble dish towel for $17.95.

Derrick at Writing Wrong Handed got this great stash of notebooks from Jet Pens last week. Hopefully he’ll have reviews soon.

Need more links? Why not check out the list of links that Tiger Pens pulled together last week?

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We Love Stationery

There is a wonderful visual Tumblr blog called We Love Stationery which is filled with all kinds of paper, pencil and office sundry goodness. If you just don’t get your fill here, pop over there and enjoy all the inspiration and images.

For access to the specific posts referenced in the image above, here are the links in order, left to right, top to bottom: Poketo Ideas notebook, Pilot mechanical pencils, erasers and wrinkled paper, pink Royal typewriter, rubber stamps: neatly organized, Pelikan eraser, L&C Hardmuth pencils, string and button envelope

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Steno Pad Head-to-Head

While on the topic of the stationery cupboard, our pals over at Pencil Talk did a little side-by-side comparison between the prestigious Field Notes steno book and one found in your average corporate stationery cupboard. Which one would you pick?

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A rainbow of notebooks

If you are particular about color or want to create a rainbow with your writings, these leather journals from PaperThinks may be just the thing. Made with 100% recycled leather covers and 50% recycled cream lined paper stock, these are as environmental as they are lovely. Available in about 18 different colors 5 × 6.75″, 256 pages, $17.95 each. Also available with blank pages (oh, joy!).

Many of the colors are available in a smaller 4x5”, 96-page version are currently available for $6.95 each. And finally a 4”x5” 256-page blank sheet version for $12.95 each. Organization has never looked so colorful.

(via Kate’s Paperie)

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