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October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
- "Please, would you tell me," said Alice, a little timidly, ... "why your cat grins like that?"
- "It's a Cheshire cat," said the Duchess, "and that's why."
Cheshire Cat costume by Hilde Heyvaert
Copyright 2007 All rights reserved.
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Porsche Design Aero
These won't make you write faster or anything but...
"What’s in a name? Well for this famed sports car manufacturer, it means speed, quality, and style. With their latest offering into the pen world, Porsche has again brought something both stylish and unique. Made up entirely of aluminum, this pen rates with the best in terms of writing comfort and quality. Sure to take your writing on some wild rides."
Porsche Design Aero Pens
At Worldlux
October 30, 2007
Pocket-sized Jotters
New Etsy goodies from Les Herger.
"These little notebooks are made of recycled and new materials.
This listing is for 6 Jotter Notebooks- designed and sized like a moleskine Cahier. They measure 3.5x5.5 inches and have 48 pages.
The cover is made of an advertising poster- stiff cardstock commercially printed and then coated on both sides with thin vinyl. I cut cover sized pieces from the posters and then match them up with paper. The paper is acid free wausau paper in ivory.
I then run the whole stack of paper and cover through my sewing machine. I use a heavy duty cotton quilting thread on the outside and a regular cotton sewing thread inside. The interior thread is cream and the exterior thread is off white.
These are made to the same exacting specifications as my other Jotters, the only difference is that these have recycled covers that cannot be duplicated..."
Almost Free
Sometimes the best writing surfaces do not cost more than a few bucks.
"well lapdesk anyway - i picked up a 30" x 30" piece of nice baltic Birch 3/8" plywood. sweet piece of wood. sturdy, no flex, weighs very little. so far i have only screwed in a clipboard clip, but i am gonna drill a handle hole and maybe some other things for holding pencils etc..."
Joyce at Swill On A Stick
October 29, 2007
Monologue
Interesting line via Grandluxe, a Singapore-based distributor.
Italian PU cover with round corners in 4 colours.
Expandable inner pocket to hold important document.
Match colour ribbon bookmarker and elastic band.
Grandluxe
Inspiration: Charles Schulz
That evening, before reporting back to barracks, Sparky went into his mother's bedroom. She was turned away from
him in her bed against the wall, opposite the windows that overlooked the street. He said he guessed it was time to go.
"Yes," she said, "I suppose we should say good-bye."
She turned her gaze as best she could. "Well," she said, "good-bye, Sparky. We'll probably never see each other again."
Later he said, "I'll never get over that scene as long as I live," and indeed he could not, down to his own dying day. It was certainly the worst night of his life, the night of "my greatest tragedy"-which he repeatedly put into the terms of his passionate sense of unfulfillment that his mother "never had the opportunity to see me get anything published."
He saw her always from a distance, and as the years went by, with each stoical retelling, the moment became more and more iconic. It was safely frozen in time-as puzzling a farewell in its quiet, coolheaded resolve as the lines spoken by the mother as she prepares to lose her son in Citizen Kane: "I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now." Frequently, often publicly, Sparky laid out the terrible resigned pathos of what his mother had said to him that night. Only as he got older and experienced parenthood himself would he "understand the pain and fear she must have had, thinking about what was to become of me."
The blizzard had brought everything to a halt. But the train drummed on across St. Paul, and landmarks familiar even in the snow slipped past his window, alerting him that his own neighborhood was approaching. Then there it was for all to see.
Mud-brown, two-storied brick buildings huddled along his snowbound street. From where the Great Northern Railway overpass crossed North Snelling he could see down to the Selby intersection two blocks to the south, where since Monday he had sleepwalked through funeral arrangements with his father in his family's rented walk-up. Even before this week of calamities, he had considered this part of St. Paul the setting of "my most influential section of life as a child."
Above the buildings to his right, a Greek-pedimented entrance marked the huge elementary school he had attended. He could see Dayton Avenue, a sidestreet among whose small, somber dwellings Carl and Dena had lived in 1921, during the first year of their marriage, and, next door, the roof under which his father had sheltered the family during the Great Depression, some of the lonelier years of Sparky's childhood, and the scanty backyard where the kooky puppy Spike, living in his own world, had gobbled up some glass. There, on the corner of Selby and Snelling, was their streetcar stop, whence came, among his earliest memories, the image of himself getting aboard with his mother, a small boy on a stiff cane seat, off to the department stores....
Excerpt from the new biography SCHULZ AND PEANUTS by David Michaelis. In this passage, young Charles "Sparky" Schultz sets off to war.
Charles Schulz
American Masters
PBS/ Premiers Monday October 29th at 9 pm EST (check local listings)
Borders to Open First U.S. Stand-Alone Paperchase Shop
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 18 -- Borders, Inc. will open its first stand-alone Paperchase shop in the U.S. Oct. 24 on Boston's famed Newbury Street. Paperchase is the London-based retail brand leader in design-led and innovative stationery with over 100 stores in the U.K., including many successful stand-alone stores in highly visible retail locations. Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP), the parent company of Borders, Inc., acquired Paperchase Products Limited in 2004. Since then, Paperchase shops have been added to over 300 Borders superstores throughout the U.S., and the company has committed to further expansion of the brand here in Borders superstores as well as through larger, stand-alone stores as part of its long- range strategic plan.
The new 1,525-square-foot Paperchase shop that will open later this month at 172 Newbury Street in Boston, will offer a completely unique and comprehensive collection of high-design greeting cards, stationery, gift items, seasonal decor, gift wrap, diaries and more. Collections are continually updated to reflect trends, the seasons, and specific holidays, and are created by some of the world's most innovative and trend-setting designers based in fashion-forward London. Paperchase-exclusive graphic designs have ranged from brightly colored stripes and dots to funky animal characters and elaborate high-contrast scrolls. These designs are often carried through a number of different items, such as journals, tote bags, pencil cases, notepads and many others, so that customers can achieve one coordinated fashion statement with their stationery and accessories.
[Thanks Joyce]
October 26, 2007
A Place to Hide
Responding to a question on where to hide completed journals Che Moleman responds:
I keep my Moleskines and some of the more important "others" in photo boxes in my armoire. I carry the ones I'm currently filling up with me at all times (there's only two, and one for work) in my shoulder bag. Once they get filled up they will go back into the boxes with the other blank ones. The idea is that the box will go from mostly blank notebooks to mostly filled. I think the boxes will just stay in the armoire after that.
I don't really go through the trouble of "securing" my notebooks. I really just "hide" them to keep them out of the way, but still accessible. I guess if I needed to, I could hide them as a deterrent more than as a safeguard. Someone who wanted to get to them would have to busy themselves with various obstacles to get to them. However, if someone really wanted to steal them and read them, they could. I used to have an issue with it; my wife would read through them (snoop?) when I didn't want her to, there was a time when I would write about things that no one needed to see or read about, (even her) just to help me cope with a difficult time in my life. If it came down to it, I could probably send them to my best friend's house, and she could hide them or keep them safe for me as long as I needed her to. She knows 97.3% of what's in there, anyway.
As far as making an electronic back-up, I just don't see the point. That's why I buy archival quality notebooks and acid-free pens. These things are supposed to last practically forever, and electronic data isn't that permanent, anyway. Besides, it's twice the work, and I'm lazy.
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