During a recent bout of caffeine-induced insomnia, I was on the French Paper Co. website, looking through their blog section, marvelling at all the beautifully designed screenprint posters and other designer-y goodness when I stumbled across an entry that would be of particular interest to the readers of The Well-Appointed Desk. I found a listing…
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Fashionable Friday: Gong Hei Fat Choi
Officially, Lunar New Year this year falls on Monday, February 8 this year and is the year of the Monkey. I only know how to wish greetings in Cantonese, not Mandarin, so you can say it with me, “gung-hay-fat-choy”! At least in Hong Kong, you’ll sort of sound like you know what you’re saying. So,…
Notebook Review: Word. Dot Grid and Declan Floral Edition
I recently got a delightful little treat in my mailbox in the form of two new packs of Word. notebooks: a 3-pack of Word. dot grid books ($9.99) and a 3-pack of the new Declan Floral edition notebooks ($9.99). The Declan Floral edition is a collaboration between Word. and Declan. Word makes the books and…
Link Love: Wow, that’s a lot of pens!
Pens: I Know What I Like – Part 2 (via That One Pen) Tale of a Vandal Pen User: Nibs Part 2 – Off-the-Shelf Stubs (via Peaceable Writer) The Newton Shinobi (via The Gentleman Stationer) Lamy Al-Star 2016: Charged Green (via Wonder Pens) Fosfor Bangalore Fountain Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) OMAS Limited Edition Calligraphy…
Planner Review: Studio Calico Hello Forever A5 Planner
Last year, when I first started dabbling in planners, I downloaded the Marcy Penner’s Hello Forever printable inserts for my planner. Since then, Marcy Penner has started designing her Hello Forever planning products for Studio Calico including a line of A5 planners (8.25″ x 9.5″ x 1.375″). While Studio Calico is most known as a company that…
Ink Review: Private Reserve Daphne Blue
Private Reserve Daphne Blue ($11 for 66ml bottle or $1.25 for 2ml sample vial) is the most beautiful Mediterranean Sea blue. At first, I was worried that the color would be too light to work in a fine nib fountain pen but the color is deep and vivid enough that its actually extremely legible, even…
Video: Life Hacks with Binder Clips
Kooky video full of life hacks using binder clips! Office supplies will save your life! Or at least make it more convenient. (Huge shoutout out to DameEmma from my Secret Society of Enablers for pointing me to this video. Totally blew my mind.)