With all the furious packing and trip-planning, its been a bit of a “slow news week” here at The Well-Appointed Desk. Here’s this week’s link love. Enjoy! When pencil sharpening becomes a how-to book (via Woodclinched) Eudora Welty’s desk (via Oprah, thanks to Missive Maven) The importance of journaling (via Modern Vintage Man) A Review…
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Lefty Pencil Sharpener
As a left-hander, I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of owning a left-handed pencil sharpener. Over the years, there’s only ever been “the other kind” available so I made do. But thanks to the fine folks at Pencil Things, I was able to purchase my first lefty sharpener. For you right-handers out there, I…
Link Love
After a week full of various technical difficulties including my WordPress Template eating itself and my Twitter account getting hacked, I’m ready for a little levity. So here’s a few links I collected this week that will hopefully make you happy too. This mail love cartoon was found on Fountain Pen Geeks and was created…
The Forgetful Gentleman Correspondence Sets
Packed into a wooden cigar box, the Forgetful Gentleman Correspondence System is a set of understated, classy notecards for the dignified man. The box contains 12 letterpress cards with envelopes including birthday, thank you, congratulations, love and blank to cover a full year’s worth of sending situations. There is even a booklet included to help…
DIY Paper Envelope
Get a free template and slideshow tutorial for making your envelopes from scrap paper. Use an old map, last year’s calendar, thrift store books, wrapping paper or other bits of ephemera to create unique envelopes. (via Country Living)
We Love Stationery
There is a wonderful visual Tumblr blog called We Love Stationery which is filled with all kinds of paper, pencil and office sundry goodness. If you just don’t get your fill here, pop over there and enjoy all the inspiration and images. For access to the specific posts referenced in the image above, here are…
Oh, quoth the Byron!
I just love this quote about letter-writing from Lord Byron found on Orange Art Store. I wandered over to their site when I heard they stock correspondence box sets in beautiful presentation boxes. Each set includes a selection of letterpress printed notecards, envelopes and writing paper. The set is a bit pricey at $75…