Review by Tina Koyama On various occasions, I’ve had the need for a rolling date stamper, and believe me, I’ve visualized more than once Ana’s impressive collection. But then I’d find a different solution to my need that worked just as well, and I would still be without one. Maybe it was my recent acquisition…
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Giveaway: Letter-Centric Rubber Stamps from The Well-Appointed Desk
In honor of the start of A Month of Letters and InCoWriMo, I’d like to giveaway a set of rubber stamps to one lucky letter-writing reader. The winner will receive one “Letter Enclosed” stamp and one “Good Mail” stamp. Winner can choose any of the “Good Mail” designs currently available. Stamps are available in handle…
Ask The Desk: Stamp Pads and Federal Supply Service Notebooks
Zack was curious: Re: Federal Supply Service Notebook I was wondering if you have ever seen one of those books in a golden color? I have one ins the green but would love to have a few golden colored ones. It appears that like Henry Ford might have said, “You can have any color…
Paper Pastries’ Custom Return Address Stamps
Paper Pastries just created some new custom, hand-lettered return address stamps featuring animal silhouettes. Margaret asked if I’d be a volunteer address for her new creations since she knows I’m a cat lover. She created a lovely hand-lettered rubber stamp with my return address inside a big fluffy cat silhouette. Looks like my big ol’…
Comparing Rubber Stamp Inks
Conversations got started yesterday about folks’ preference for rubber stamp inks and I realized that this is a topic I’ve never pursued. Since I like to use rubber stamps to annotate my paper planner and my mail, navigating the array of rubber stamp ink pads is something I thought I should investigate. There are many…
Red Ink (Cinnabar) and Chops
After finding the amazing, little Uni travel red stamp pad, I started nosing around a bit more looking for more information about Asian seals and chops. In China, stamps of all sorts were used to mark documents official, especially if they had to do with paying taxes or to validate a document like a signature.…
Stamps and seals
My absolute favorite find while traveling in Asia was this Uni Mitsubishi Stamp Pad (HSN-S30K) in red and a custom made chop from Stanley Market with my name carved into the bottom. The stamp pad was purchased at CN Square in Hong Kong for $36HK (a little more than $5US) while I paid about $10US…