Mike Rohde and his Sketchnote Army has had a profound effect on many of you, myself included, and I’m excited to celebrate World Sketchnote Day on Monday, January 11. That’s right, let’s spend the day sketch noting everything! Your breakfast! That boring meeting! The guy on the bus! The five things on the top of…
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End-of-Year Sales
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…
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…
Black Friday Deals!
Oh, yes. Its that time of year. Black Friday deals and sales. It’s time to take advantage of the best deals from all your favorite pen shops. And it’s time to send links to your friends and loved ones and tell them “buy me this!” for the holidays too. I thought I’d help you out…
Hot Off The Press: I Got Sh*t To Do Notepads
After an impassioned conversation with my husband about how I wanted a really good notepad to put into my planner that went something like this: “I need a really good notepad… you know with a tear-off glue edge to make lists?” “For what?” “Because I … well, I got shit to do!” “That’s what it…
Kickstarter: Baron Fig Squire Pen
After successfully launching their Confidant notebooks, Baron Fig has decided to tackle the pen market now too. Today, they launched their first entry into the pen market, The Squire. The simple design, aluminum pen is available in two finishes: silver and charcoal to match their signature notebooks. The Squire features a twist mechanism to reveal…