Today and tomorrow is the annual Renegade Craft Fair in my old neighborhood, Wicker Park in Chicago. The event features over 300 indie craft vendors, including pals like the Letter Writers Alliance, Nerfect and Let’s Be Friends, so its well worth the trek. If you are within an hour’s drive of Chicago, change your plans…
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Who loves Pencil Revolution? The Atlantic, that’s who.
We can all agree that Pencil Revolution is the very best pencil blog in the world and now The Atlantic seems to agree with us too. The article pulled out a few of their favorite posts, including my review of the Dux Inkwell Sharpener that I wrote, pre-Well-Appointed Desk way back in 2006. Congrats to…
Monsieur Notebook Goes Global
Help get Monsieur Notebook, the real leather notebook manufacturer, the funding they need to truly take their products worldwide. They are using IndieGoGo, a service like Kickstarter, to help finance an increase in production and warehousing to be able to keep up with demand. They have expanded their range of products since my previous review…
Happy Left Handers Day!
Ok, technically it was yesterday but Happy Left Handers Day, just the same!
Country Living Featurette: Mad-Men Style Vintage Office Supplies
Yesterday was a big day for me. The September 2013 issue of Country Living magazine showed up in my mailbox and included a Collecting featurette about collecting vintage office supplies that featured some of the jewels from my personal collection. Yep, you read that correctly. I sent my beloved Adler Tippa typewriter and some of…
Eight Years of the Pencil Revolution
I’m delighted to congratulate the Pencil Revolution and its founder Johnny Revolution (as I was first introduced to him as) for being one of the first pen/paper/pencil bloggers and one of the longest running blogs on the occasion of its 8th anniversary. John and his fellow comrades have reviewed pencils, erasers, sharpeners and more with…
Italic Nib Fountain Pens for Auction
Loyal reader and friend, Chris P., is listing a couple pens for sale on Ebay and I wanted to share them. Chris is a retired lettering artist and an italic nib fan so these are a couple sweet pens with some interesting heritage. There is a Parker Falcon with a Parker#94 medium italic nib from…