I have two big news items I wanted to share and they were too important to wait. The first is the new Love Letter America web site. Artists are creating postcards you can download and send to you representatives to tell them the reasons you love your country and the values you want them to…
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Letter Writing Month: Day 2 and It’s Not Too Late to Start
February is both InCoWriMo and LetterMo, two challenges to encourage you to write a letter a day for a month. I started with A Month of Letters (AKA LetterMo) many years ago, so its the challenge I think of first, but I know many people think of InCoWriMo as the larger of the two challenges. They…
Winner: Decoylab Wall Calendar
Thanks to Decoylab for offering the wonderful opportunity to get organized with their aweseom wall calendar and to everyone who entered the giveaway. I’m glad I’m not the only one still trying to get my act together for 2017. The winner of the Wall Calendar is : I’ve contacted Pete directly so he’ll be receiving…
National Handwriting Day
Every year, National Handwriting Day sneaks up on me. Luckily, I have a whole bunch of writing samples from previous National Handwriting Days. Hope you get to put pen or pencil to paper today and use your handwriting.
An Administration Remembered, Stationery-Style
(Photo credits: in order clockwise from top left: A reporter takes notes while President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom speak to the press in the Oval Office, March 3, 2009, Photo by Pete Souza;Pens to be used by President Barack Obama are set on the signing table with the…
Giveaway Winner: Write Your Own Adventure Planner 2017
Congratulations to the winner in the Write Your Own Adventure Giveaway. Our random number generator picked: Jenn Dee! Good luck on all your adventures, Jenn, great and small. A wedding in Korea sounds like it will be a blast. And Korean stationery stores will be on your itinerary too, right? I hope everyone gets a…
Screwed By Passionfruit Ads
This is a story about the grinch (Jason Lynes, the owner and founder of Passionfruit Ads) that ruined ad hosting for me in 2016. I’ve kept pretty quiet about this all year because I am not the kind of person who uses this blog to complain, throw people under the bus or generally be a bully,…