Stationery
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Hitting the bottle
It’s okay, your narrator hasn’t plumbed the depths yet. The bottles I’m going to talk about are filled with ink, not gin. I thought it might be fun to explore which bits of my personality are drawn to the different ink bottles that I own. When I see my, admittedly limited, collection it strikes me Continue reading
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Think ink
I know it’s modest in comparison to many an ink stash, but the fact is my inks are getting out of hand. How much of any given thing is too much is a purely personal thing. I recently saw a photo on Instagram showing a vast Diamine ink order. The lady unpacking it mentioned that Continue reading
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A lot to like
Aware that I suffered a fit of damning with faint praise when I wrote about the Cross Bailey Light fountain pen on Friday, today I’m going to be more enthusiastic about Filofax’s new decorative accessories. Over the past month four Collections have launched – the Garden Collection, the Indigo Collection, the Confetti Collection and, most Continue reading
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Every day’s a school day
I was pretending again on Friday, but there’s a lot to be learned through playing make-believe. On the most practical level, I pretended to be at the coffee shop, lapping up the ambient noise, with my laptop and my cereal bar and my Espresso House coffee flask providing those Scandinavian coffee chain vibes. It wasn’t Continue reading
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It’s all about the paper

The thing about the planner community is that our photography can, at times, tend to focus on the externals whereas, of course, what actually matters is the paper inside the cover. I’m not saying that the cover isn’t important, it is. We choose our covers to convey, to ourselves as well as to the outside Continue reading
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Nothing to write home about

It’s a funny thing, having nothing to write a blog post about, knowing it doesn’t matter, that it’s counter-productive to force it, but not quite being able to set aside the desire to write. I’ve been trying to decide which ink I should use on my main planner pages throughout March which is the month Continue reading
