Regardless of where you live, you probably have an actual or emotional hangover from the US presidential election. As of this post, the results are not conclusive and the results are too close to call. As a result, the stress and strain of this year continues to linger. The fact that the US election results…
This week, Link Love is so full visuals that I urge you to click on the links just to see the photos, illustrations and graphics. I promise you it will be worth it. The images below are just a taste of the amazing things you’ll see if you CLICK through. It’s from the Creative Boom’s…
This weekend, Bob and I watched a film called Booksellers which is a documentary film about the antiquarian book dealers and the antiquarian book world. Amusingly, there are a lot of parallels between the book world and the pen world. So much of the book world has changed in the last 20 years as a…
I have no excuse for my inability to time manage. I have enough planners and notebooks to start my own stationery store and yet somehow, because everything I am required to do in a timely fashion is supposed to be done in the early hours of Monday and Wednesday, inevitably, my time gets mismanaged. Some…
This weekend Sailor North America is hosting its first virtual online ink show. Registration to participate opened on Friday, Oct 2nd at 9am Pacific. For a fee of $20 individuals are offered an opportunity to meet with a Sailor Ink expert 1-on-1 for 15 minutes to purchase a bottle of the “2020 Exclusive Pen Show…
Behind the scenes here at Desk HQ, we cranked out about 700 Col-o-ring Ink Testing Books and are in production to make another 300+ Col-o-ring, 250 Col-o-dex and 250 Col-o-ring Oversize books. As a two-person production team, our focus has been filling back orders for our wholesale clients and getting them boxed and shipped out.…
We have really, really good news and really sad news this week. So we will start with the good news. This week, the new edition of the Field Notes Colors Edition was released and we (I mean my husband, Skylab Letterpress and myself) were actively involved in creating. And we had to keep quiet about…
