Look what popped up this morning in my Amazon recommendations! Yes, folks, Caroline Weaver of CW Pencil Enterprise fame has a book on the way! The book is called The Pencil Perfect: The Untold Story of a Cultural Icon and it will be released in hardcover on April 24, 2017. The price is listed at…
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Upcoming Events (AKA I’m terrible at self-promotion)
First, there’s just a few hours left to back The Pen Addict Live 2017 – RelayCon Atlanta & DC Pen Show on Kickstarter and get a chance to the special video of Brad and Myke in Atlanta (and ME in the third chair) AND get the cool Pen Addict podcast NockCo “only-available-here” Sapelo pen case. Three…
Letter Writing Call To Arms!
I have two big news items I wanted to share and they were too important to wait. The first is the new Love Letter America web site. Artists are creating postcards you can download and send to you representatives to tell them the reasons you love your country and the values you want them to…
Letter Writing Month: Day 2 and It’s Not Too Late to Start
February is both InCoWriMo and LetterMo, two challenges to encourage you to write a letter a day for a month. I started with A Month of Letters (AKA LetterMo) many years ago, so its the challenge I think of first, but I know many people think of InCoWriMo as the larger of the two challenges. They…
Winner: Decoylab Wall Calendar
Thanks to Decoylab for offering the wonderful opportunity to get organized with their aweseom wall calendar and to everyone who entered the giveaway. I’m glad I’m not the only one still trying to get my act together for 2017. The winner of the Wall Calendar is : I’ve contacted Pete directly so he’ll be receiving…
National Handwriting Day
Every year, National Handwriting Day sneaks up on me. Luckily, I have a whole bunch of writing samples from previous National Handwriting Days. Hope you get to put pen or pencil to paper today and use your handwriting.
An Administration Remembered, Stationery-Style
(Photo credits: in order clockwise from top left: A reporter takes notes while President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom speak to the press in the Oval Office, March 3, 2009, Photo by Pete Souza;Pens to be used by President Barack Obama are set on the signing table with the…