If you love vintage typewriters, you’ll enjoy this tour of Pieritz in Oak Park which is filled with wonderful old machines. The tour is led by vintage aficionado Bradley Paul during a recent Letter Writers Alliance Letter Writing Social.
Showing all posts in June 2013
Video: Casey Neistat’s Hyper-Organized Studio
While I mostly focus on workspaces of the average modern office worker, today I thought I’d share this video I found of Casey Neistat’s highly-functional and slightly OCD video studio. This will also offset some of the complaints that I often collect and share workspaces that are too ideal, too “magazine”. This is a super…
Brevi Manu Stationery Shop
Marvin Kleinmeier (AKA Bob Sala Photographie) recently photographed products for a German stationery shop “Brevi Manu” for a future online store and catalog. I see familiar products like Hardmuth, Koh-i-Noor, and Kaweco — all excellent German products — along with Palomino Blackwings and other beautiful products. Brevi Manu creates the O-Check products which will also…
Mini Letterpress Notebooks
Heather Smith Jones has created a collection of pocket-sized Stockman notebooks letterpress printed with array of vintage farming images. There are four different designs and contain 40 pages. Each book is a petite 2 5/8″ x 4 1/4″ — perfect for pocket or purse. $5 each.
Link Love: Inks, RETRAKT and general pen love
The BIG NEWS: If you are interested in the Karas Kustoms RETRAKT project on Kickstarter, check out the Karas Kustoms blog , Clicky Post and From the Pen Cup or my short write-up and goofy video. Brad over at Pen Addict tries a vintage Esterbrook LJ with 9284 stub nib. Johnny at Pencil Revolution reviews…
A Ladies EDC
Men have the advantage of having pockets in just about every garment they wear. Their trousers have pockets; be they jeans, chinos or cargo shorts (extra capacity!). Their shirts have pockets, and sometimes even their t-shirts have pockets. But we ladies face the challenge of where to put our phone, cash, cards and keys. Most…
Floral Bomb Winner Announced!
The last of the seven giveaway is here at last. Lots of lovely flowers here this time of year inspired this grouping. The winning number: Congratulations, Suzanne! I’ll be contacting you via email to make arrangements. And thanks to everyone who entered the drawings this past week. I hope everyone had fun!