When I initially purchased the Zig Letter Pen, I only bought the holder. I didn’t realize the cartridge was sold separately. So, after a frustrating wait with an empty pen case, I received cartridges to fill it. Oddly enough, the end of the pen projects out of the pen case in kind of a jarring…
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We have a winner!
I’m blown away that we had over 100 entries in the latest Well-Appointed Desk drawing. I was tickled to read everything people wanted to buy with the winnings. There were lots of requests for Prera and Kaweco fountain pens, Pelle journals, brush pens and Hi-Tec Cs. Without further delay, the winner of our drawing is:…
Leuchtturm 1917 Review
I found a display rack full of the Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks today at the new art supply shop in Kansas City, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and I’ve been itching to try them for sometime so I grabbed one. I chose the plain, pocket-sized book with a simple black cover ($8.10). From the outside, its almost…
A Pearl Among Swine?
I had heard about the legendary Paper Mate Black Pearl eraser — the distant cousin of the old faithful Pink Pearl — but I had never located one to see for myself if it was all it was cracked up to be. I was visiting my local office supply superstore and lo and behold… the…
JetPens Giveaway!
The kind and benevolent gods and goddesses over at JetPens have given me a $25 gift certificate to give to you, one of my fine readers. So, here are the rules: You must tell me what you would buy with $25 at JetPens You must leave this information in the comments here at The Well-Appointed…
Pelle Leather Journal Review
The Pelle Journal is the American answer to the widely-coveted Japanese Midori Traveler’s notebook. I got the medium-sized notebook which does not align with either of the two sizes available for the Midori books. The small “passport-sized” books seem too small to be truly useful at about 3.5”x5”. I’m curious about the classic “traveler-sized” which…
Alfred App
Four months ago, I mentioned a new app discovery called Alfred. I thought I would follow-up to let you know, I cannot live without it now. The simple act of clicking Option+Spacebar and keying in the first few letters of anything has shaved so many seconds of clicking around on my computer that I think…