Analogue Inspiration
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.Â
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.Â
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.
Wonder Pens Ink on Instagram (@wonderpensink)
One of my favourite parts about fountain pens is the ink - different colours, different flow, different stories behind each ink. I am a bit fussy about ink, as I think many fountain pen people can be (or so I like to tell myself), and also not too adventurous (mostly browns and blues and blue-black-greys and a few particular greens), but I'm always on the look-out for an ink I can fall in love with.
Wax Seal Inspiration
We recently got some new sealing wax supplies, and with this time of year, I've been sealing up everything - Christmas cards and Christmas presents and notes here and there.
My Analogue System for Travel: Pens + Notebooks for our Train Trip
We're getting ready to head out on our train trip! It's been a busy week of last minute errands getting everything in place, in addition to received a bunch of orders to keep our shop as stocked as possible while we're gone.Â
What's in My Pen Roll
In celebration of a new season involving longer and brighter days, fresh air, and evening picnics, I thought I would share what's in my pen roll these days.