TWSBI often releases special edition colours of their pens, their ECOs in pink or lime or blue, their 580 AL in different metallic shades, but their newest pen, the TWSBI GO, is a completely new pen, and I love it. My first love in fountain pens were actually inexpensive pens – pens that maybe weren’t … [Read more…]
It’s the last dog days of summer, before we ramp up to getting ready for back to school (the shop and Caleb) and the excitement of a new, fresh fall season, my favourite time of the year – something I think maybe many stationery nerds can empathize with. From September to December, time seems to … [Read more…]
“It was while writing a Diary that I discovered how to capture the living moments.” – Anais Nin Now some years ago, I taught a series of journaling workshops at Covenant House, a youth shelter here in Toronto, and I loved it: writing and sharing stories, prompts, poetry, notebooks and paper, all of us sitting … [Read more…]
Our Letter Writing Club is happening this week (Thursday, August 9th), and the timing couldn’t be better as the CBC just released a three part series on a “Return to Analog,” featuring film photography, pen and paper, and typewriters. Of course we were thrilled to be a part of the pen and paper segment, where … [Read more…]
Over the last six months, I’ve been really stripping down what I use to keep organized in terms of journals and agendas. In an ideal world, I would have more time to spend lost in the pages of a notebook (or book), as I really enjoy the process of writing, but I’ve been working on … [Read more…]