Yep, thanks to the Maker blog, you too can craft this colored pencil fragment pendant or other cool home decor or jewelry with this fabulous tutorial.I’m thinking necklace and maybe some coasters!
“Oh, honey….! I found a project I need you to help me with!”
(shout out to my pal Geoff for tipping me off to this one)
Bound Custom Journals was a Kickstarter project out of North Carolina. All went swimmingly and now they have a site fully stocked with three styles of customizable books to choose from to build your very own: the 4×6″ linen flexible hardcover ($35), 3.5″x5″ memo book ($10) and the 4×6″ leatherette flexible hardcover ($50). The linen cover is available in five colors, the leatherette in two. Even the memo book is available with five color options for the covers.
An assortment of paper types can be chosen for the inside:
Any combination of pages can be used; you can fill the front with a calendar and checklists and then the remaining pages with lined, blank, grid, isometric grid or all of the above. The options are pretty open.
Bulk orders will allow you to customize the covers with your business logo or personal artwork.
As best as I can tell, the interior of the book appears to be a bright white paper stock. And as luck would have it, Brad at the Pen Addict just posted a review of his new journal and memo book from Bound with pen tests and images of interior pages. Check it out as he finds the paper good with gel pens but not so good with fountain pens.
This is the new limited edition Field Notes Expedition Edition. It sports a high-visibility orange cover and a “polar night” back cover. These new notebooks were made with the highly durable Yupo paper and have withstood endured a bevvy of tests including: waterproof, visibility, wind resistance, ballistics, vacuum, tensile strength, compression, acid resistance, flame resistance, extreme temperature, electromagnetic waves and electrical resistance. No expense was spared to make these super-durable Field Notes. Don’t believe me? Check out some of the testing videos to see which tests the books survived.
And paired with the new Field Notes Fisher Space Pen, there is no challenge too tough! $23.97 per pen and available in matte black or chrome.
A 3-pack of these durable Field Notes is $9.95 or a year Color subscription is $97.
The metallic sheen of the grasscloth wallpaper and the ashen reclaimed wood desk with the vintage mid-century brass lamp makes my heart sing.
(via The Handmade Home)
I’m off to write some letters and holiday cards this afternoon. Envision me like this and not the reality which is mismatched pajamas and piles of papers strewn everywhere, not to mention the view out my window is grey and leafless. I’ll try to write as if I was the dreamy Catherine Moorland of Northanger Abbey and not a twenty-first century girl living in the midwest. Dream your own big dreams today!
(image from Northanger Abbey via Le Projet D’Amour)
Thanks to everyone who left comments and wish lists for The Pen Addict Gift Guide Rebuttal and thanks to Brad and Myke for not being too annoyed with me.
It appears that the TWSBI Minis and Pilot Hi-Tec C Coletos are very popular items this year. Rhodia pads are also popular as are Field Notes and Uni-Ball Style Fit multi-pens are getting some love too. Inks from all the major manufacturers also got shout-outs and the Retro 51 is getting love too.
If I had won the big Lotto jackpot, I would have bought all the items on the wish lists but I didn’t so we must rely on the generosity of JetPens to provide one $25 gift certificate to the winner of the drawing.
And the winner is:
Congrats, Kristina! I hope that graduate school and Christmas are both clear sailing for you!
I was just doing a little holiday research (because who doesn’t want something from JetPens at the holidays) and stumbled across a most-coveted item. The Kutsuwa Dr. Ion Super Mega Pencil Case ($36) is now available at JetPens. I first saw the Dr. Ion case in action over on Felt & Wire where Jennie Hinchcliff of Red Letter Day kindly showed off what her travelling letter-writing kit included and have been lusting after one ever since. Now, JetPens is stocking not only the epically-sized Super Mega Pencil Case but also the slightly more demure Mega Pencil Case ($22.50). I wasn’t planning on adding a new item to my wishlist, but really… can you blame me?
