Showing all posts in July 2016
Ask The Desk: (Ball)Pointed Questions
Hayley asks: I am looking for a pen as a gift for my step-father’s 60th and I wondered if you might have any ideas please. He is a salesman and carries a ballpoint-ish pen in his jacket pocket. I’m happy to buy a good refill – like a Fisher space or a Schmidt or something…
Link Love: Late But Lovely
Pens: Best Non-Fountain Pens for Everyday Use, Part II: Non-Disposable Pens (via Gentleman Stationer) Kuretake CocoIro Lettering Pens (via Owl.Ink) Rotring Quattro Multi Pen (via Office Supply Geek) Tactile Turn Gist Fountain Pen (via A Better Desk) Pen Hack: Tinkering with TWSBI’s (via Contemplations of a Kitty) Sneak Peek: Review Lamy LX Fountain Pen (via…
Podcast: Ep. 8 Art Supply Posse “Color Me Pencil”
This week on Art Supply Posse we talk about a topic near-and-dear to my heart and one that’s truly not to Heather: colored pencils. Listen to me try to woo her over to the not-so-dark side with the rainbow that is colored pencils. I try to entice her with ridiculously expensive Caran d’Ache Luminance pencils. Am…
Review: Filofax Lockwood Personal Planner & 2017 Illustrated Stripes Insert Set
The Filofax Lockwood Personal sized planner in aqua ($102.15) might not look like a huge change from my Original in dark aqua but, its not the color that’s the change so much as the overall construction. The Lockwood is the freakin’ MacGyver of planners! Its got pockets and slots galore where the Original is stripped…
Pencil Review: Uni Arterase Colored Pencils 12-color Set
The Uni ArtErase 12-color Colored Pencil Set ($33) is considerably more expensive than the Prismacolor Col-Erase set I reviewed a couple weeks ago but when I saw it, I knew I had to try them. Uni Mitsubishi makes such amazingly high-quality graphite pencils and I love their red/blue pencils that it seemed worth considering the possibility that…
Fashionable Friday: Getting My Stitch Fix On
I’ve been working so much over the last few months that I have genuinely not had time to grocery shop, clothes shop or do any other kind of shopping. To the point where I actually started wondering if I could hire someone to shop for me. “Can I get an intern to run errands for…