Monsieur Notebooks are now being stocked with our favorite Aussie online stationery supply company. Check out my review and then hop over and order one for yourself. Remember, Well-Appointed Desk readers receive a 10% discount when you enter the code WELLAPPDESK at checkout.
iPhone ice cream sandwich cover $11.99 (via ModCloth)
(via Now and Then)
Paint your filing cabinets an eye-popping color and top with a scrap piece of stone, granite or concrete from a local homebuilding shop. All the sudden filing looks like a pleasing activity… sort of.
(via Apartment Therapy from BH+G)
The winner in this month’s JetPens giveaway is:
Jess! Congratulations! I’ll be contacting you via email to send you your gift certificate. Thanks to everyone who entered and commented!
There’s more options in highlighters than what you can find in the aisles of your local big box office supply store so I thought I’d round-up some more unusual highlighter options available.
The refillable highlighter:
If I have a choice, I’d rather not throw away pens if I can get more life out of them so the Staedtler Textsurfer highlighter ($1.45) and ink refill station is a great way to extend the life of your highlighter. I suspect the ink could be used with any highlighter so if you’ve got a couple laying around that need refilling, the ink refill station ($9) might be a great option. Another option is the Platinum Preppy refillable highlighter pen ($2.50) and pack of 3 refill cartridges ($2.50). Tip refills are even available for the Preppy highlighter ($1.65 for pack of two). The Platinum converter ($7) can be added to the Preppy highlighter so that the pen can be filled with any type of highlighter ink that suits your fancy. Go green, I mean yellow (or pink or blue..)!
The dry highlighter:
There’s pencil-style dry highlighters in wood casings like the Faber-Castell Textliner Dry or a more lead holder/mechanical-style pencil like the E+M chunky 5.5mm wood-cased lead holder ($16) and 6-pack of highlighter leads ($9.50). Then there’s highlighter tape like the Tombo Mono highlighter dispenser or a removable tape option from Lee. The advantages of the dry highlighters are that they do not dry out or bleed through to the back of the page.
The erasable highlighter:
The Pilot Frixion erasable highlighter is available in five colors and uses the same friction-activated erasable technology that all the Frixion series pens use. If you’re prone to rethinking your highlighting, this might be a good option. $1.65 each.
The fountain pen highlighter:
A fountain pen highlighter is a slightly more posh option but something I’ve always kind of wanted to own. The most notorious fountain pen highlighter option is the Pelikan m205. Its a extra wide BB nib and a clear, bright yellow plastic casing. The pen ships with a bottle of Pelikan Highlighter ink for about $120. A Kaweco Ice Sport in yellow with a B nib or replace the nib with a calligraphy nib in 1.1mm or 1.9mm and then fill it with Noodler’s Firefly Yellow ink would be about $50 which might be a more cost-effective option.
Are there any other kinds of highlighters I might have overlooked? Do you have a favorite brand or color of highlighter?
