by Carla | Aug 2, 2013 | Inkdrops, Photographs
I finally made it to the Harry Potter studio tour on Tuesday afternoon. Much to the amusement of the dear friend I was with, I insisted on taking pictures of the stationery-related things that popped up now and again! Don’t you wish all stationery shops were like...
by Carla | Jul 19, 2013 | Handwriting, Inkdrops, Letters, Photographs
Some years ago, I received the thank you note in the photograph. It was a thank you for something I’d sent a dear friend. While I adore pretty stationery and all handwriting is good handwriting, this one still stands out as a beautiful example of elegant simplicity....
by Carla | Jun 24, 2013 | Handwriting, Inkdrops, Letters, Photographs
When you receive cards, letters and notes in the post, what do you do with them? Do you pin them to a board, proudly display them on a mantelpiece or shelf, tuck them away in boxes? Mine frequently end up as bookmarks, which perhaps sounds ungrateful. But it means it...
by Carla | Jun 14, 2013 | Inkdrops, Typewriters
When your new typewriter comes to live with you, the first thing you’ll want to know is a bit more about it. When is it from, what kind of ribbons does it take, all the little things that make it more yours, more exciting and most of all more usable! My first...
by Carla | May 17, 2013 | Inkdrops
At the beginning of this year, I realised that with all the things I do, I needed to be considerably more organised than I was. These days most of my appointments live in my Google calendar. Unless I’ve written things down the old fashioned way, with pen and...
by Carla | Apr 28, 2013 | Business Musings, Inkdrops
Last week was National Stationery Week , three words that set our paper-obsessed hearts all aflutter! With new boxes and ideas in mind, we took ourselves and a giant rubber duck up to London for two days. Incidentally, the duck is shortly to have some kind of green...
by Carla | Apr 12, 2013 | Books, Inkdrops, Typist's Desk Book
Find yourself someone who knows Nottingham. Then get them to take you to the random little house clearance and bric-a-brac shops on the outskirts. I went to one of these on a cold December afternoon. And promptly nearly bankrupted myself on gorgeous nostalgic books,...
by Carla | Mar 22, 2013 | Inkdrops, Photographs
Ahhh, Pinterest. That little haven of space where you can browse inspiration to your heart’s content, adding snippets to your own board, planning rooms in your house, your next craft project, recipes you’d like to try… And oops, once again several hours have vanished...
by Carla | Jan 17, 2013 | Handwriting, Inkdrops, Letters, Photographs
When was the last time you printed an image? Hand wrote on the back of it who was in it, and put it in an album to look over at a later date? I was round at my parents’ recently and they have piles and piles of real photographs. Over the years, they have had these...
by Carla | Dec 21, 2012 | Diaries and Journals, Inkdrops
‘New’ is relative! I have compulsively journaled if that’s a word since I was small. Writing is something I can’t help doing and once I start an account of my day, it rolls into pages and pages. One of the only things I have ever truly regretted not buying was a...
by Carla | Nov 22, 2012 | Handwriting, Inkdrops, Letters
Starting Ink Drops has made me think back, nostalgically, to my childhood and youth – before emails, mobile phones and MSN, we communicated by letter. My friends and I wrote letters to each other at all ages, to keep in touch across countries (my best friend...
by Carla | Nov 12, 2012 | Handwriting, Inkdrops, Living
My sister got married last week. It was unexpected. It was only a few hours before that I found out. I turned up to meet her because she’d invited me to afternoon tea. Maybe I would have dressed smarter If I’d known what was in store. At least I wasn’t in...
