by Carla | Jun 14, 2016 | Articles, Creative, Day in the life, Diaries and Journals, Handwriting, Inkdrops, Living, notebooks, routine
It’ll come as no surprise to discover I’ve had a love of journalling for my whole life. From the newsy childhood letters exchanged with my best friend, through my drama-soaked teenage diaries to the current almost-daily handwritten download of my brain....
by Carla | Apr 27, 2016 | Articles, Guest posts, Handwriting, Inkdrops, National Stationery Week, Pens
For World Stationery Day, we asked one of our wonderful readers to tell us what stationery means to her… When I walk into a stationery shop I feel safe. It’s a weird feeling to describe but being surrounded by notebooks, pens, paper, postcards (photo...
by Carla | Feb 8, 2016 | Articles, Inkdrops, One Thing at a Time, organisation, simplification
Back at the start of the year (how was it that long ago already?!) we shared our first One Thing at a Time idea: Pick A Priority. I’m famous among my friends for frenzied multitasking. This is despite trying over the years to chill out and single-task .Or at least do...
by Annastasia | Jan 23, 2016 | Articles, Heuristics, Inkdrops, simplification
There are too many decisions to make in a day. Let’s face it, most of them don’t matter that much. The choice you make will not be life-changing and could (with a few possible exceptions) be reversed quite easily. So to save my energy for more interesting...
by Carla | Aug 2, 2015 | Articles, Inkdrops, Living
Some of my lovely friends got married last summer. And that means that their first anniversaries are approaching. So I’ve found myself thinking of the traditional anniversary presents. Each year of marriage has a theme attached to it, traditionally, and...
by Carla | May 29, 2015 | Articles, Handwriting, Inkdrops
Ah, real fountain pen ink. There’s nothing quite like it… I have a few purple and turquoise cartridges which I can use in my old school fountain pen (which is battered but writes amazingly). But the pen I use the most, which was a graduation present, only has...
by Carla | Mar 23, 2015 | Articles, Inkdrops, Living
It’ll come as no surprise to hear that my paper addiction stretches to include some magazines as well as stationery and books. Not the typical celebrity-focused ones, but the ones that are a delight to discover and a joy to peruse. The ones that embrace and...
by Carla | Jan 30, 2015 | Articles, Day in the life, Geekery, Inkdrops, Living, Photographs
On Wednesday, we scrapped our usual Skype meeting and popped along to The Waiting Room, in Colchester. We’re still getting used to living in the same town! We’ve been before for brunches and burlesque, but this time they had a letterpress takeover. The...
by Carla | Oct 20, 2014 | Articles, Day in the life, Inkdrops, Living, simplification
Today I have learned that sometimes, you just have to stop. Whether you want to or not. The last few weeks have been totally manic for a whole host of reasons. My feet haven’t really touched the ground. My poor little pea brain can’t keep up. So it has...
by Carla | Oct 3, 2014 | Articles, Business Musings, Diaries and Journals, Inkdrops, Living, notebooks, organisation
The last quarter of the year is often when my thoughts turn to the following year’s diary, plans, goals and so on (unlike some of you lovely lot, who I gather start in August! I feel like I’m slacking…). In previous years I’ve been able to cope...
by Carla | Sep 27, 2014 | Articles, Guest posts, Inkdrops, Living
So we asked the very lovely Mimi, over at Little Sips of Tea, to tell us what Sensible September means to her. And here’s what she said… September is swiftly slipping away – I was startled to realise that it’s already the start of autumn,...
by Carla | Sep 5, 2014 | Articles, Inkdrops, Lists, Living
I love September even more as an adult than I did as a child. The end of hay fever and sneezing, the back-to-school feeling without actually having to go back to school, cosy evenings, the start of term at my local adult education centre… It’s sensible for...
