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The Pencilmaker

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The Staedtler Pencilmaker Set is a DIY pencil kit in the historical style in honor of their 175th anniversary. The set comes in a commemorative tin, not the coolest tin but not a cardboard box.

Included in the kit is two slats of wood, stick of graphite, string, seal and glue along with instructions to walk you through all the steps.

Though the seal is a piece of molded plastic, I like the Trojan warrior cameo embedded into it.

When completed, the pencil will look like a carpenter’s pencil basically but I still think its a cool bit of history. How often do you get to day, “This thing? Oh, I made it!”?

The kind folks at Staedtler sent me, not one but, two Pencilmaker sets and I’d like to share. Leave a  comment here on the blog on Tumblr before Friday, August 5, 2011 at  midnight central US time and I will select a winner by drawing and send a Pencilmaker set to the winner. Contest has ended. We have a winner! Thanks!

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Cavallini Daily Planner

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Its never too soon to think about 2012 and your next planner acquisition. Jenni Bick Bookbinding just announced the new Cavallini 2012 Daily Planner is in stock. These substantial leather-covered planners are available in over half a dozen colors with elegantly printed interior pages. There is one page per day with soft grey lines on cream stock.

I’ve been using the 2011 edition and I can recommend it as a good solution for keeping notes, projects and meetings organized. The size is manageable, the paper is durable and not too thin with little bleed-through and the fonts used for the date and calendar is a simple, clean sans serif.

(via Jenni Bick)

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Morning Pages

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Start as you mean to go on

Lots of people have attempted to do Julia Margaret Cameron’s The Artist’s Way morning pages at some point in time. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the idea is that by writing three pages every morning, you can clear the mental clutter and get down to the core of your “real work” whether that is a new business venture, writing a book or getting the laundry done. 750 Words attempts to create a private, online option for doing your morning pages, or by their best guess, 750 words. If you type faster than you write, this may be a good option.

Either on paper or digitally, if you’ve been wanting to write more or mentally clean house, try writing three pages every morning or sign up on 750 Words for a week and see if it helps.

(via 750 Words)

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Pilot Hi-Tec C 4-color muti-pen

At brunch this weekend, I was telling a friend how much I love my Pilot Hi-Tec C Coleto multi-pens so I thought it was high time I shared this wonderful little tool with my online friends too. This is the 4-color version but there are now even a 5-color option as well as higher end bodies. Each Hi-Tec C can be filled with an array of gel ink color options in widths from 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5mm as well as a mechanical pencil component (in 0.3 or 0.5 size). Ink colors can be purchased in 10-color sets or individually so that you can pretty much customize your pen to be anything you want it to be. All serious? Then choose black, red, blue and a pencil. Got a favorite color? Then pick all ink colors in your favorite hues and a body to coordinate. Can’t make up your mind? Buy a 10-color set and a clear or white body and try out a bunch of different options. Your total investment for a basic body and colors to fill won’t break the bank. A 4-color body is just $3 and individual ink cartridges are $2. Pencil component is $2.70. There’s even a stylus option for electronic devices like Nintendo DS.

I’ve owned at least three different multi-pen bodies and filled and refilled the inks many times and I have to admit that they are my go-to writing instrument. I love the wide, rubber grip and the endless color options. Coleto pens are inexpensive enough to not be precious but reusable and tough enough to last quite awhile. I’ve had only one pen body lose the rubber bits (glue lost its stick) but I still use it anyway.

(via JetPens.com)

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Clean, simple and ever-so-slightly pink, this space is a little modern, a little exotic and a little feminine. Love the architecture of the space with the arched doorways and vaulted ceiling. So glad the decorating does not take away from the beautiful space but accentuates it.

(via pinterest)

This image was originally posted on Decor8 but I could not find the link back to the post so I have no additional information. If anyone knows the original source link, please leave a note in the comments. Thanks!

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This inspiring monochromatic workspace is the AFTER shot from Decor8. By organizing her space with color, she was able to unify the space quickly. I tend to favor lots of color in my space but I like the tranquil study in greys that she created with this space.

(via decor8)