This week was Amazon’s annual Christmas in July sale disguised as “Prime Day” with deals on everything from tech to books to everything in between. Bookshop.org, the indie bookseller’s best friend offered free shipping on orders during the same days. If you are not familiar with Bookshop.org, they let indie booksellers and affiliates (like myself)…
For many years, July was the start of two month-long projects: One Book July and World Watercolor Month. This year, World Watercolor Month is a-go and details about it can be found over on Doodlewash. One Book July, however, is not happening as an organized event this year. As someone who is already using multiple…
As we head into July, stationery and pen fans tend take a moment to rest, enjoy the summer holidays and then re-evaluate their planner or other analog set-up. It’s just how we roll. This week, several posts feature reviews and reflections on goals and stationery plans that were set into motion in January. How have…
Tomorrow I head out for St. Louis for the pen show. Will you be there too? If not, I hope you are having a wonderful summer and maybe I’ll see you somewhere else in the future? Until then, have fun with this week’s links including Mike of Inkdependence’s entry into our #21PenQuestions project. Pens: The…
As of last Thursday, I have had a succession of little irritations. You know, little things. I got a flat tire, the blog had some backend issues, I am having issues with my CINTIQ drawing boards, the cats went berserk and tore out a screen on the catio one night, we had workers at the…
I remember when the rubber duck first went for a cruise around Hong Kong harbor ten years ago. I was tickled to see that in honor of the ten year anniversary of the first time the giant, yellow bathtub buddy set sail, they are launching TWO ducks in Hong Kong Harbor this weekend. It makes…
This is a “short week” for Americans since many of us had Monday off for Memorial Day. However, that means that Tuesday feels like Monday and so forth. So, I had a panic moment when I remembered I needed to get Link Love done today. Such creatures of habit, we are. Link kismet is a…
