Review by Tina Koyama My vast love of colored pencils is directly proportional to my frustration with sharpening them. While my desktop Carl Angel-5 does a decent (and sometimes very good) job on most colored pencils of average barrel diameter, it can’t handle pencils of slightly larger girth, which happens to be the case for…
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Fashionable Friday: Bibliophile
This is one of the biggest Fashionable Friday posts I’ve ever put together and I could have crammed even MORE into it. I love books, bookstores and biblio-puns. I even have a board on Pinterest where I’ve collected posters, jewelry and other goodies that I like that is bibliocentric and where several of the items…
Link Love: Pencil Talk is Back!
Pens: Video: Sailor Cross Point & King Eagle Nib (via Gourmet Pens) JetPens Blue Black Pen Sampler Review (via Pen Addict) Lamy Linea Fountain Pen (via Write To Me Often) Karas Kustoms Copper EDK – Knox Series (shipwreck) (via The Clicky Post) Artline Stix (via All Things Stationery) Ink: Kyo-iro Moonlight of Higashiyama (via Gourmet…
Desks are for more than just writing!
On Mardi Gras, of all days, it seems appropriate to celebrate the use of desks for more than just writing or reading or other solemn or sedentary acts. Today, let’s celebrate the winner of the third annual Tiny Desk Contest. The winers are Tank and the Bangas who are appropriately from New Orleans, the soul…
News: The Pencil Perfect
Look what popped up this morning in my Amazon recommendations! Yes, folks, Caroline Weaver of CW Pencil Enterprise fame has a book on the way! The book is called The Pencil Perfect: The Untold Story of a Cultural Icon and it will be released in hardcover on April 24, 2017. The price is listed at…
Fashionable Friday: Indi-Ana Jones and The Pens of Doom
This week I’ve been absolutely smitten with all things Traveler’s Noteboook-y. Rich worn, leather covers and brass fittings and all the trappings of having my very own archaeological artifact like Indiana Jones. So, this week, I donned my own fedora and boots and went spelunking. Grail Diary Hero Prop Replica from Indiana Jones and the…
Pencil Review: Dixon Reach Deep Hole Pencils
I confess that when I saw the Dixon Reach DEEP HOLE pencils I laughed uncontrollably. My reaction to these pencils (or at least the branding and packaging) was similar to the reaction a lot of people had to Bic for Her pens. I understand that there is a use-case for these within the construction industry but…