There are far too many end-of-year sales for me to list them all here but if there’s something you’ve had your eye on for sometime, now might be a good time to double-check and see if there’s a discount, price reduction, coupon or free shipping offer available. Lots of our favorite pen shops are doing year…
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Looking Back and Moving Forward
I say this every year but I love the start of the New Year. Its a chance for new beginnings, opening that brand-new planner, journal or notebook and starting on a new path, or course-correcting the one you set last year. I hope that 2016 will be a year of great adventures and great joys for everyone,…
New Products for 2016
There are lots of new products hitting the market for 2016 and some are already available for pre-order so I thought I’d include a few here if you wanted to squirrel away some of your holiday funds for a few of these. The limited edition Lamy AL-Star color for 2016 is called Charged Green and is…
Kickstarter: Leftybooks
How can I not support a Kickstarter project that is attempting to create a product to make writing easier and more comfortable for left-handed writers? I couldn’t. So I put my money where my mouth (or in this case my keyboard is) and backed the Leftybooks project which is a notebook designed to help left-handed…
Link Love: Gift Guides, Top 5s & Cocktails
Pens: A Pen Lover’s Last-Minute Christmas List! (via Independence) Top 5 Favourite Pens 2015 (via Alt. Haven) Last Minute Christmas Shopping at the Big Box Stores (via The Gentleman Stationer) Kickstarter: Carbon V Fountain Pen (via Kickstarter) Gimena Ebenus Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Video: Laban Mento (via The Pen Habit) TWSBI Vac Mini (via…
Books for the Pen & Paper Set
Occasionally, a book will cross my path that I think will be very interesting to Well-Appointed Desk readers and I think Woman With A Blue Pencil by Gordon McApline is just such a book. The premise of the book sounds both strange and intriguing blending noir detective tale and WWII Japanese-American internment camps and the…
Local Pride: 10 Things to Love about Kansas City
I’m feeling a little sentimental today about my adopted home, Kansas City. We’ll be spending the holidays here this year and we have a friend coming into town so I’ve been mentally preparing a list of things to show him, places to take him and food to feed him. I thought I’d share it with…