Pardon me while I plug the firm for a moment. For those who don’t know yet, I work full-time as a designer at Hallmark (the Well-Appointed Desk is my passion but not my income) and Hallmark owns this lovely little company called Crayola. Crayola is what I like to think of as the gateway drug…
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Preferences
I thought this might be a good time to mention a few of my personal biases when it comes to office supplies. I do not like ballpoint pens. They never write smoothly for me and always looks cheap to me. I’m not particularly fond of rollerball pens either. They tend to choke when I use…
Vintage Repro Cahiers Review
Laughing Elephant has created these vintage reproduction French cahiers. Each notebook has the classic look of a vintage composition notebook with cardstock covers with rounded corners. There are eleven different designs in their line of French Notebooks, these are just two of the designs. Inside each book is warm white paper with pale sepia lines.…
Mongol Watercolor Pencils
This is the most useful product box I’ve seen in awhile. I’m floored at the amount of thought and ingenuity that went into making the packaging useable and functional for these old pencil sets. The snap closure with leatherette band keeps the pencils from escaping inside a bag or desk drawer. Not to mention that…
The Dymo Tapewriter 1054
This vintage Dymo was found at the White Cloud Flea Market, still in the box! Made of heavy industrial beige metal it is a behemoth of a Dymo. Despite its weight and size, it is one of the easiest Dymos I’ve ever used. The clamp action is smooth and even and it presses the letters…
(fillintheblank)@wellappointeddesk.com
Well, due to faulty poll software and mixed interest, the votes for my new email address were fairly lukewarm. I did have several people tell me via email, voice and comment that they were amused with chair@… and there were several votes for both girltuesday@… (a play off of my frequently used, homage-to-Jasper-Fforde, internet nom…
Exacompta Sketchbook Review
On my never-ending quest for the perfect notebook, I decided to give the French-made Exacompta Sketchbook from Exaclair (AKA Clairefontaine, AKA Rhodia) a test drive. This very plain book looks as if it were designed as a refill to go inside one of the Exacompta Club leatherette refillable journal covers as the cover stock is…