by Annastasia | Feb 22, 2013 | Inkdrops, notebooks
What do you do when you get to the end of a notebook? How do you resolve the end of your relationship with this object that has been your daily companion? photo credit: angelocesare via photopin cc Look back You saw the notebook at a shop. Or you spotted it on a...
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 Annastasia | Dec 14, 2012 | Inkdrops, Letters
I owe my discovery of correspondence cards to a slight obsession with woman’s lifestyle magazines in my mid-twenties. Travelling all over the place by bus meant I was always buying magazines both to get some change and for something to occupy me on the journey....
by Annastasia | Nov 30, 2012 | Inkdrops, Letters, Living
Do you keep your personal correspondence? Do you look through it on a rainy afternoon and recall memories of people and places long gone? The idea of a stack of letters tied up with a ribbon is glorious. The reality is less romantic and much messier. The ribbon is...
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...
by Carla | Oct 31, 2012 | Business Musings, Inkdrops
Well, somehow the days turned into weeks, the weeks into months. Tomorrow is the 1st of November, our official launch date. Eeeek! We will be blogging more regularly once we are up and running. For now, I am putting the finishing touches to the website and the shop,...
by Carla | Oct 5, 2012 | Articles, Handwriting, Inkdrops
Spotted this lovely article in my peruse of the internet this morning, which nevertheless made me sad in places… “You and I might have received a handwritten letter this week, but most people have not.” So true – and so tragic! One of the things we hope to achieve...
by Carla | Aug 18, 2012 | Inkdrops
Hello lovelies! Welcome to Inkdrops’ blog. Here we shall post about all things stationery and letter writing, craft and correspondence. And the ups and downs (and no doubt sidewayses) of life. It would be lovely if you joined us for the...
