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Giveaway: Baron Fig 2018 Planner

AnaOctober 3, 2017October 30, 2017145 Comments

It’s the season for getting prepared for the coming year. Baron Fig has launched their 2018 planner. ($22). It’s got all the features from last year like the spiffy charcoal fabric cover, and all the nice features from the 2017 edition. Inside the box is a year-at-a-glance calendar and then underneath is the blind embossed…

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Giveaway Winner: A Year of Sun Undated Weekly Planner

AnaOctober 1, 2017October 30, 2017

Thanks to Notemaker for providing the amazing Octaveo A Year of Sun undated planner for our giveaway this week. And a big sunny hand to our winner, Francisco who will basking in the Southern Californian sun. I’m just a little jealous! Since I will putting the winter wheels on my MINI next month.

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Inktober!

AnaSeptember 30, 2017September 30, 20172 Comments

Do you know what tomorrow is? The first day of October! And for a lot of folks that means the start of Inktober the drawing challenge event of the year. If you want to participate, there’s really not much to it: If you want to use the prompts created, you can. Or you can make…

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Giveaway: A Year of Sun Undated Weekly Planner

AnaSeptember 26, 2017October 3, 201795 Comments

The Octaveo “A Year of Sun” undated weekly planner ($44.95 AUD) is a brilliantly sunny yellow, A5 planner with a flexible cover, hand painted yellow page edges and ultramarine blue accents. If anything would make you feel uplifted about planning for the future, it would be this planner. Made in Barcelona and inspired by the Mediterranean,…

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Subscriptions: CW Pencils Quarterly #3: Back to School

AnaSeptember 20, 2017September 20, 20172 Comments

Didn’t I say yesterday it was a good month for subscriptions? No sooner did I get the Rad + Hungry USA Kit than the CW Pencils The Pencil Box Quarterly #3: Back to School Kit ($30, currently closed to new subscribers but can be added to email list when new slots are available) arrived. Wow!…

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Subscription Kit: Rad + Hungry USA 2017

AnaSeptember 19, 2017September 20, 20172 Comments

Rad + Hungry is a very unique subscription service. Every month you are subscribed, you receive a package of curated stationery goods – usually pencils and a notebook plus a print and a little extra from somewhere in the world. One month it might be Uruguay, the next month it might be Korea or the…

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Ask the Desk: Sheening Black Ink

AnaSeptember 19, 2017September 19, 20173 Comments

My good friend Father Kyle recently asked if I could recommend a good sheening black ink. The only black ink (and I don’t use a ton of black ink so my knowledge here is relatively limited) I could think of was Kyo-No-Oto No. 1 Nurebairo ($28). It has more shine than sheen on most of…