Analogue Inspiration
My Daily Notebooks 2018
I've been packing up bits and pieces of our apartment as we get ready for the move ahead, a sort of weird in-between time as I'm making decisions on what we can live without for a month or two, and what needs to wait.
My Everyday Carry Notebook
Almost a year ago, I began using the Midori B6 Slim notebooks for my everyday carry notebook, and it's turned into one of my staples - I almost always have it with me.
Staff Stationery Show and Tell
This past Saturday, when we had the whole team in, we did a little stationery show and tell - everyone brought a pen and ink, and something fun. I was re-living my teacher days by asking if anyone wanted to share some of their picks for the week on the blog, but was thrilled when Derrick and Brendan (and Jon!) indulged me by writing up what they brought over the weekend - our weekend being Sunday/Monday. I guess the thing about stationery nerds is that we like to talk about stationery.
What's in My Pen Roll
On the weekend, Jon went out to run a few errands, the babies both took an afternoon nap, and I spent a few glorious minutes re-organized my stationery supplies.
What's in My Backpack: My Everyday Carry
We consider ourselves very fortunate to live behind the shop - as small business owners but mostly as parents, it's been logistically possible to balance eating dinner together every night with being able to take a few steps into "work" after Caleb's bedtime, answering emails that need an inventory check in the warehouse, setting up displays in the shopfront, packing a few urgent orders, or unpacking and organizing inventory from new shipments after a busy day.
An Organizing System of Index Cards
I've recently begun using index cards to organize my life. I've heard about people using index cards to help keep them organized, with great success, and I'm a bit of a pen and paper person myself, so I thought I would give it a try - at least to start with organizing a few different projects, like the blog.
May Inks for our Tester ECOs - Spring Flower
We flushed and re-filled our tester ECOs in the shop with some new inks for spring - flowers for Mother's Day or to celebrate warm weather and all the beautiful colours coming now.
What's in My Pen Roll - Winter Is Ending
Every once in a while I share what's in my pen roll with you - I've been meaning to do it more often than I have, but as the warm weather rolls I'm ready for a fresh season, and these are the inks I'm taking with me.
Favourite Things of 2016
As we wind down the year, I'm gathering some of my thoughts and reflections into another post coming soon, but first I thought I would share some of my favourite things from this year - and there have been a lot.
My 2017 Analogue System
I've been thinking quite a bit about my analogue system for next year - it's always nice to be able to start a year fresh with clean white pages and, in my case, hope for the best. It's very similar to my system from this past year (here's my blog post at the end of last year looking forward), with just some minor tweaking.