Mar
30
Spiralling away
Filed Under Notebooks, Spiral pads
(Image by Hey Paul)
Spiral notebooks whisper to me about the promise of a new term at school, new things to learn, new things to write. With a spiral pad, with a pen clipped inside the coil, I’m ready to take on the world.
Mar
28
The pen is poised
Filed Under Fountain Pens, Pens
The pen here looks like a ballerina en pointe, about to pirouette around the stage. What it’s going to write doesn’t matter as much as the act of writing itself.
(Photo by L_Dan)
Mar
24
Ingenious invention
Filed Under Paperclips
The author of this picture seems to be a great admirer of paperclips. I love that somebody is enough into paperclips to draw a self-portrait holding one up.
(Image by royblumenthal)
There really ought to be more drawings of pretty stationery.
Mar
20
Script, up close
Filed Under Writing
Pretty letters as viewed through a water glass.
(Image by saturn ♄)
Mar
19
Cupcake notepad
Filed Under Notebooks
Cupcake notepads are a Good Thing, as far as I’m concerned, as they satisfy two cravings at once, without threatening your waistline. Yes.
(Image by Wedgienet.net - Illustration / Design)
Mar
18
Moleskines love their pencils
Filed Under Notebooks, Pencils, moleskines
Pencils and moleskins happy together in black and white.
(Photo by Paul Worthington)
Mar
17
Discovering Padblocks cubes
Filed Under Random stationery, notepaper
Gift shops at tourist sites are often a good source of quirky stationery, and last weekend I’ve found an irrisitible little notepad of a type I hadn’t seen before.
Made by Padblocks, these are neat stacks of note paper glued along one side, with a pen-shaped hole in the corner. They have pictures printed along the other sides, and these can be a little kitsch, but the pad itself is so neat, and cute and simply awesome that I don’t mind the images.
I didn’t really need 800 sheets of note paper, but I don’t usually really need any of my new stationery toys. That’s how fetish manifests itself, right?
Mar
16
Bright patchwork cover
Filed Under Notebooks
It’s been a long winter, with much illness and family issues, but spring has come at last. To celebrate, here’s somebody’s handiwork: a notepad with a quilter cover:
(Photo by ejhogbin)
Oct
26
(Image by John Althouse Cohen)
I covet the things in the photo: the coffee, the notebook, the cafe table on the Parisian pavement. Ah, the things I could write there…
Oct
25
Spiralling
Filed Under Notebooks, Spiral pads
(Image by allyrose18)
These books look much-loved. I’ve got spiral books I’ve had since the first days at uni, earnestly scribbled notes, underlined titles, highlighted definitions.
I keep them out of sheer sentimentality, but they’ve been with me for a long time, those old friends.
