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Top travel destinations for stationery addicts

Top travel destinations for stationery addicts

Who says you can’t combine your love of stationery with your holiday? Whether exploring the history of paper or discovering the origins of contemporary calligraphy, you’ll be spoilt for choice as you pencil these destinations into your travel bucket list. The Pen Museum Located in the heart of the city’s…
6 tips for writing the perfect eulogy

6 tips for writing the perfect eulogy

If you have a eulogy to write, we send you our deepest condolences as you will have recently lost someone you were close to. At what can be one of the most challenging times of your life, the additional pressure to write a eulogy that perfectly captures the essence of…
5 fun Halloween craft ideas for kids

5 fun Halloween craft ideas for kids

Most children love Halloween, and the annual event offers kids and parents the opportunity to sit down together and bond while getting creative. Halloween is synonymous with costumes and trick-or-treating, so you may like to create a costume together, or instead, you could dive into one of the Halloween craft…
How to store your pen collection

How to store your pen collection

Storing your pens correctly can prevent a variety of problems, such as pens drying out or unwanted ink stains and marks on fabric. The good news is, it is easy to store pens in a manner that will facilitate long life and minimal issues — however, the perfect storage solution…
A beginner’s guide to rollerball pens

A beginner’s guide to rollerball pens

If you’re new to rollerball pens, the chances are you’ve seen them online or on shelves in-store and may have assumed they’re the same as ballpoint pens as they look so alike. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the world of rollerball pens — explaining what they are, how…
The best writing tools for left-handed people

The best writing tools for left-handed people

With 10 per cent of the world’s population being left-handed, it’s about time the world acknowledged that one in 10 people write with their left hand and designed all objects with this fact in mind. If you are left-handed, you might find you have some issues using certain writing tools…
Five ways to sharpen a pencil

Five ways to sharpen a pencil

You might be reading this and thinking, ‘surely there’s only one way to sharpen a pencil?’ — in which case, prepare for your eyes to be opened to a whole new world! Otherwise, the chances are you are reading this because you know there are various ways to sharpen a…
Meet the brand: Tombow

Meet the brand: Tombow

Tombow was founded back in 1913 in Japan by 28-year-old entrepreneur Harunosuke Ogawa. Originally manufacturing pencils only, the company has since branched out and now manufactures many of the world’s favourite art, design, school and office stationery products. Each Tombow product is a blend of beauty, function and precision, and…