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So… I had so much fun in Atlanta that, knowing that the Chicago Pen Show is just a week away, I have decided that I MUST GO TO CHICAGO! As a native Chicagoan, the opportunity to go to a pen show AND eat an Italian Beef was too much lure for one person to withstand.…

In preparation for the Atlanta Pen Show, I thought it might be fun to put together some great (maybe a little “dreamy”) things to have on hand with you should you venture out to the Atlanta Pen Show, or any pen show. In your kit, you’ll want to have a notebook with paper you love…

I was inspired by the floral mixing and matching in the April 2016 InStyle magazine. Like all the trees and gardens in bloom, let the flowers go wild in your stationery world too! (photo credit: David Alfons Wilhelm Bornscheuer, styled by Ali Pew) Retro 51 Tornado Rollerball Pen “Bouquet” $35 (via Goldspot Pens) Dooney &…

Once again, I’m delayed in completing my Fashionable Friday. I don’t know how Fridays get away from me, they just do. But it gave me time to pitch my initial idea on the pyre and come up with what I think is a much more timely idea: Suffrage Saturday. Following the Primary Elections here in…

Today, I’m inspired by Boden’s Spring-y work wear ensemble from Director of Buying Cathy Newnes-Smith. Its a simple pullover-and-trousers combo but its fun and stylish and perfect for a spring day. I would work at Boden just for access to a closet full of their clothes. Wouldn’t you? I love that they painted the trestle…

This week has been super busy so I decided to share five favorite things I found this week. These are not necessarily pen products but may be inspirational or productivity-related. I hope you like this little mini-post as a substitute to Fashionable Friday which will be back next week. Subscribe to awesome illustrator Kathy Weller’s…

Sure, Sunday is the Oscars which to some will be an event to note but, to me, the event of the week is the 30th anniversary of Pretty in Pink, a seminal film of my youth that solidified my taste in men (I’m pretty sure I married Duckie), my taste in music (from New Order…