Laughing Elephant has created these vintage reproduction French cahiers. Each notebook has the classic look of a vintage composition notebook with cardstock covers with rounded corners. There are eleven different designs in their line of French Notebooks, these are just two of the designs. Inside each book is warm white paper with pale sepia lines.…
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Mongol Watercolor Pencils
This is the most useful product box I’ve seen in awhile. I’m floored at the amount of thought and ingenuity that went into making the packaging useable and functional for these old pencil sets. The snap closure with leatherette band keeps the pencils from escaping inside a bag or desk drawer. Not to mention that…
The Dymo Tapewriter 1054
This vintage Dymo was found at the White Cloud Flea Market, still in the box! Made of heavy industrial beige metal it is a behemoth of a Dymo. Despite its weight and size, it is one of the easiest Dymos I’ve ever used. The clamp action is smooth and even and it presses the letters…
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Well, due to faulty poll software and mixed interest, the votes for my new email address were fairly lukewarm. I did have several people tell me via email, voice and comment that they were amused with chair@… and there were several votes for both girltuesday@… (a play off of my frequently used, homage-to-Jasper-Fforde, internet nom…
Exacompta Sketchbook Review
On my never-ending quest for the perfect notebook, I decided to give the French-made Exacompta Sketchbook from Exaclair (AKA Clairefontaine, AKA Rhodia) a test drive. This very plain book looks as if it were designed as a refill to go inside one of the Exacompta Club leatherette refillable journal covers as the cover stock is…
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I finally decided to purchase www.wellappointeddesk.com so this blog can now be accessed through Tumblr or directly through our own URL. So, now I’ll have an email address specific to Well-Appointed Desk. I thought I’d let you folks vote on what address I use. Vote now or leave a suggestion in the comments. I’ll close…
The Pencilmaker Winner!
We put the Random Number Generator to work this morning to choose the winner of the Pencilmaker Set. Drum roll, please…. The third commenter was: Congratulations, Husayn! Please contact me with your contact info. Thanks to everyone for entering this drawing. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do more in the future.