Oct
5
Dollar store treasures
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Fine stationery and gold-tipped Monblancs are all very well, but sometimes, a dose of simple cuteness works just as well to satisfy a notepad craving:
(Image by glindsay65)
Oct
1
Pen Rainbow
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(Image by RedblueNY)
Not sure what attracts me so much about these pens: maybe it’s that they’re slim, or that they’re colourful, or the sparkles. But they look very pleasant to write with.
I find it much easier to write with thin pens than thick ones, despite ergonomics apparently demanding the opposite. Maybe it’s that I have small hands, or maybe it’s the feeling of power I feel over a tiny pen: will I snap it? or allow it to live and write another day?
Sep
26
Windows Vista Pen
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(image by iogi)
I’m not posting this picture because it’s particularly great (although it’s nice enough), and certainly not because I’m suddenly overtaken with fondness towards Windows Vista merchandise. (In fact, when my laptop died in the summer, I transitioned to using a Mac, just so that I didn’t have to use Vista; that’s by the by though.)
However, I have a confession to make: I have an uncommon, unseemly fondness towards free pens.
Even if it’s kinda mediocre in use, even if it bears the name of a product I’d never use (like, cough, Vista) - hey, if it’s free, I’ll have it. And use it, often in preference to my other, nicer pens.
My friend reckons that it’s because deep down I don’t think that whatever I’m writing is worthy, and I’m loathe to use nice stationery on it. Maybe so, or maybe I’m just greedy.
Anyway, the picture up there is a symbol of my weakness.
