Yesterday, NPR published two articles about paper. The first, focused on the continued appeal of the Moleskine notebook in the “digital age” (despite us all knowing the paper quality leaves something to be desired) and another piece about the business of paper and that China makes GMO paper! Who knew? And today, there is a…
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Fontoplumo Loves The Desk Readers!
Fontoplumo has been a loyal supporter of The Well-Appointed Desk and is often my first source of news about new European pen products from Lamy, Kaweco, Caran D’ache, Delta and more. Fontoplumo offers great customer service and quick delivery all over the world. AND Fontoplumo has extended the discount code for Well-Appointed Desk readers. All…
Atlanta Pen Show: Day Three
Recapping the last day of the pen show is done with melancholy. The whole weekend has been so amazing, so epic, that its hard to say goodbye. Many people had to head home on Sunday and our group got smaller as the hours ticked by. It kind of reminds me of the closing scene of…
Atlanta Pen Show Report: Day One
The first day of the Atlanta Pen Show was amazing. The atmosphere was friendly and party-like and everyone was excited to see what vendors had to offer and meet new people. Sometimes looking at tray after tray of pens spread out across a vendor’s table was hugely overwhelming but everything was so beautiful that my…
What News? Atlanta Pen Show
If you’ve been following along by way of The Pen Addict podcast, you’ll know that we are just days away from the Atlanta Pen Show and the video filming of episode 150 of the podcast. Along with Brad and Myke (live and in-person) there will be lots of guests on the show. Guests will include…
Well-Appointed Desks Must Have Music
This morning NPR announced the winner of the Tiny Desk Concert Contest based on their successful series of performances hosted at the desk of NPR All Song’s Considered host Bob Boilen.For the contest, musicians were asked to submit a video performing a song in front of a desk. Entries included: desks dragged into nature, onto…
Top 5 Posts of 2014
WordPress kindly sends out a yearly round-up of blog statistics. Since I didn’t move The Well-Appointed Desk to a privately hosted server until autumn, the stats are a little wonky but the most popular posts are pretty accurate. Want to see the list and see if you missed any of them? The Epic Refill Reference…