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I’m back on schedule and just in time to celebrate Derby weekend, Desk-style. So, pull out your race day finery, mix up some mint juleps and place your bets! And don’t worry, I practice what I preach, I bought the Rose Garland dress immediately. Too Much Fun Dress in Rose Garland On Sale $59.99 (via…

After driving all the way to Chicago and then back to Kansas City, I thought this week’s Fashionable Friday TUESDAY (?) should be inspired by the great American road trip. Open roads, adventure, truck stops and roadside attractions that you might want to capture with pen and paper. On our road trips, we like to…

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…