Mar
30
Spiralling away
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(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
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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
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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
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Pretty letters as viewed through a water glass.

(Image by saturn ♄)
Mar
19
Cupcake notepad
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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
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Pencils and moleskins happy together in black and white.

(Photo by Paul Worthington)
Mar
17
Discovering Padblocks cubes
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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
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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)

