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Link Love

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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 by Poofytoo.

Speaking of fountain pens, have you ever heard of Diplomat fountain pens? If not, check out this overview from the Australian online stationery shop Notetaker on their blog called The Field Notes (not to be confused with the brand of pocket notebooks called Field Notes).

Tonya Stabb created this cleaver wall unit to hold and display her colored pencils.

If you haven’t discover the blog, Letters of Note, I recommend that you start with this post: I Like Words. (tip from Exaclair)

Nation State is another great online shop from Australia for, as they describe it, notebooks, pens and pencils and other stuff like this Scrabble dish towel for $17.95.

Derrick at Writing Wrong Handed got this great stash of notebooks from Jet Pens last week. Hopefully he’ll have reviews soon.

Need more links? Why not check out the list of links that Tiger Pens pulled together last week?

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The Everyday Carry (EDC)

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The everyday carry (EDC) is a topic frequently discussed among pen and pencil afficiandos. We all have little gems and jewels that we love to have and keep but we are often asked, “But which ones do you use everyday?”  Stationery Traffic recently answered this question by showing the contents of his Maxpedition EDC Pocket Organizer filled with his daily tools.

This is my EDC photo from December. The contents have not changed dramatically, maybe the color of the LePens and I’ve got two Kawecos now instead of the Lamy.

What is your favorite EDC?

(via Stationery Traffic)

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Linea Carta Calligraphy Starter Kit

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Linea Carta offers ways to make calligraphy within your grasp with the beautiful calligraphy starter kit. The kit includes a beautiful screenprinted lettering chart, flexible nib dip pen, ink and instructions. $35

Other options available are purchasing just the lettering print or purchasing her set of calligraphic caps rubber stamps.

(via Magic Is As Magic Does)

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Exacompta Basic Pocket Portfolio

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Rhodia Drive published an overview of the Exacompta Basic Pocket Portfolio. It is available in two sizes, 4.75×6.25″ and 9.5″x12.5″, the smaller size is shown above, and it looks like a thin and thick version and each size is available in craft, black, red and green. These little portfolios would be great to organize paper ephemera like tickets, receipts and stamps while the larger would be great for carrying documents to and from the office.

Now if I could just locate an online retailer who was selling these, I’d be a very happy camper.

(photo and content via Rhodia Drive with a hat tip to the Office Supply Geek)

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Pencil Salt & Pepper

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Part of my day job requires that I make an inordinate amount of salt and pepper shaker sets. I realize this sounds like a particularly odd occupation and, trust me when I say, I never expected to do anything like this as a job. So, when I stumbled across this set of pencil salt and pepper shakers, let’s just say that my two worlds collided.

I had to share. You know you want a set. I know I do.

(via Design Milk)

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The Forgetful Gentleman Correspondence Sets

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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 you properly word your sentiment.

Forgetful Gentleman also offers a less expensive linen correspondence set packed into a paperboard cigar box and filled with 12 offset cards and the writing guide.

Because, yes, even men need to send cards. $75 for the letterpress set, $25 for the linen set.

(via Forgetful Gentleman)