With a simple canvas tote and a some thread, you can easily make a notebook-style tote bag. Stitch the blue lines with a sewing machine, a little wonky gives it character and then use embroidery thread to create the vertical red margin line using a simple embroidery stitch like backstitch, running stitch or stem stitch.…
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Pencil Badges
Handmade plastic Pencil Badges (and paper too!) by Joely Brammer/Good Empire are available from the Zombie Collective for £12 each. Would definitely make a point, right?
Wooden Desk Wonders
Wooden desks wear beautifully and look great. Here’s a few for your “new desk” file. (The last desk with classic early 60s and built-in shelving is my favorite for sure. You?) (Click on each photo to go to the source website)
Sale: Pelikan M205 Highlighter Fountain Pen
This week, Levenger is selling the Pelikan M205 highlighter pen set with BB (double broad) nib and bottle of fluorescent yellow ink for $87, reduced from the regular retail price of $175. Sale is good through Sunday and the discount code is HILITE9. This pen can be filled with other inks and would work as…
Giant Office Supply Props
(via Life Magazine)
What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?
(tip from Addicted to Pens and Paper, inforgraphic from Pens.com)
Death and the Typewriter
You read the headline correctly. Death AND the typewriter. More specifically death certificates. Government documents are still typed on a typewriter and there is still one surviving typewriter manufacturer in the US. Its a company called Swintec, best known for their clear plastic typewriters sold to prisons. Read more at WSJ.