My husband drove down to Bentonville, AR to visit the Crystal Bridges Museum and meet up with his parents. The museum focuses on American art and was founded by ALice Walton, daughter of Sam Walton, founder of the Wal-Mart empire. The museum is actually pretty amazing. It sits on 120 acres with lots of nature…
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Tattly: Supplies
Show your pen or pencil pride with the new collection from Tattly. Each tool comes in a set of 2 for $5 and there are six designs to choose from: pencil, pencil/sharpener, round paint brush, flat brush, pen or craft knife. (via Tattly)
Charmed with Pencils
While in Chicago, I acquired this wonderful Pencil Cluster charm from Fossil ($28). Its exceedingly detailed and I had the clerk put it on the Dainty Charm Starter Bracelet ($48) in silver. I hope I can find a pen or envelope charm to go with it.
Tools + Lettering
(via Jeremy Booth)
Pages from Paul Klee’s Sketchbook
I find these pages from Paul Klee’s notebooks, circa 1922, to be positively mind blowing. Color formulas, beautiful penmanship and somehow beautiful and artistic at the same time. Paul Klee, Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre, 1922. Bauhaus Weimar. (via The Near-Sighted Monkey)
Typewriter As Art
While not everyone might be as inclined as I am to have a pile of old typewriters at hand, the image of a typewriter inspires the writer, poet and correspondent in all of us. Today I discovered several “typewriter as art” pieces to inspire and compliment the paper aficionados desk. (Click on images to visit…
Nick Cave, Type Monster
Who can make even the daintiest manual typewriter look like a weapon of mass destruction? Nick Cave, that’s who. (via Austin K Leon)