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JOURNALING - It's Good For You!
Life is a journey. For some it's like travelling along a quiet road on a balmy summer's day when it's not the school holidays. For others though, it's more like a motorway at rush hour on a rainy day in winter. For most of us, ......Read More
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TWSBI GO - The Perfect Fountain Pen for Ink Geeks and Students
Generally TWSBI pens are aimed squarely at pen geeks. And we love that about them. Well, we would, we are pen geeks. 'Normal' for TWSBI is still bottle-fed pens, with transparent barrels so you can watch the ink slosh about inside; often supplied with the ......Read More
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Stabilo EASY Range
STABILO's EASY range of pens, pencils and sharpeners - it's easy to see how easy they are to use. They're easy to refill, easy to hold and easy on the pocket too. Too many 'easys'? Yes, probably, but they really are, well, easy! STABILO's aptly-named ......Read More
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Calligraphy Workshop with Louise
Calligraphy is for life, as far as Louise is concerned, not just for World Calligraphy Day! So - as we waited for the final touches to be made to the special Calli-Penorama newsletter - a lucky few of us gathered in the meeting room for ......Read More
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Journaling with Purpose - World Calligraphy Day 2018
Learning modern calligraphy and hand-lettering is something that first caught my interest a couple of years ago. I would often see beautiful images on Pinterest and think it was something completely unachievable for me, especially as I hadn’t practised any kind of handwriting since leaving ......Read More
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Artsynibs - World Calligraphy Day 2018
The Beginning Back in 2012, when the Olympics fever swept the streets of London, I set foot on British soil for the second time in my life. This time, on my own, for a 3-month long solo trip to Europe. What has this got to do ......Read More
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Louise Chappell - World Calligraphy Day 2018
World Calligraphy Day is back! 15th August marks the return of a day dedicated to calligraphy and the joy it brings. Started in 2017 by Manuscript, masters themselves of manufacturing tools for the calligraphy trade since 1956, it looks set to make another great impression ......Read More
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Recycling
It's a surprisingly complicated issue. Recycling things is good, obviously. For the environment. And that's important. But when you start to actually think about specifics, things can get tricky. A ballpoint pen made from recycled plastic is good. But if it gets thrown in landfill ......Read More
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Meet the Brand: Helix Oxford
Before 1880 you didn't actually have to go to school, and now - over 130 years later - you do. And what's more, you have to stay there until you're 18. Quite a lot's changed over the years: slates aren't really practical any more (bit ......Read More
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Meet the Brand: Moleskine
Who would have thought that a few bits of paper sandwiched between a couple of thicker bits of paper could become something of a cult item? Not all of them, obviously: your bargain-bucket reporter-style notebook where the sheets curl up after just a few lines ......Read More
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POSCA Rock Painting
Our very talented friend Helen Colebrook from Journal with Purpose let us know why she enjoys rock painting. Be sure to follow her on Instagram to see all her latest work @journalwithpurpose. Painting pebbles is something of an obsession for me. There feels so much less ......Read More
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Colour with Claire
Claire - otherwise known as Colour with Claire - first got in touch with us back in 2015. I can't quite believe it's been that long, but even I - with my dismal maths - can work out that if you subtract 2015 from 2018 ......Read More
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Space: The Stationery Frontier
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. --Douglas Adams Everyone knows the story already, so we don't ......Read More
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Mechanical Pencil Day: Why We Love Mechanical Pencils
This post is part of our celebrations for Mechanical Pencil Day, on 05/07 - the 5th of July, 2018. We love mechanical pencils, but some of you might be wondering why - there's nothing wrong with wooden pencils, and pens are usually more permanent anyway. Why ......Read More
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Mechanical Pencil Day: Matthias' Personal Journey
This post is part of our celebrations for Mechanical Pencil Day, on 05/07 - the 5th of July, 2018. Matthias is the author of the excellent Bleistift blog about stationery, with particular emphasis on mechancal pencils. Here, he tells us of his own journey of discovery ......Read More
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Mechanical Pencil Day: Crossword
This post is part of our celebrations for Mechanical Pencil Day, on 05/07 - the 5th of July, 2018. While Amanda was musing over the suitability of mechanical pencils for puzzles in preparation for and upcoming post, she hit on the fact that modern technology can ......Read More
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Mechanical Pencil Day: Dave's Mechanical Pencils
This post is part of our celebrations for Mechanical Pencil Day, on 05/07 - the 5th of July, 2018. For fans of mechanical pencils, Dave will need no introduction, but for everyone else - he's the person behind the much-loved blog Dave's Mechanical Pencils. As one ......Read More
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Mechanical Pencil Day: Innovation in Mechanical Pencils
This post is part of our celebrations for Mechanical Pencil Day, on 05/07 - the 5th of July, 2018. Hi. Michael here again. And I love mechanical pencils. Ask anyone who knows me what writing instruments I prefer, and they'll tell you 'fountain pens'. Well, ok, they'd ......Read More
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POSCA Rocks!
POSCA rocks! Well, we think so, so we created POSCA rocks - rocks covered in POSCA. But why? Well, it turned out that we had a 'kill three birds with one stone (or rock)' situation. It gave us an excuse - as if we needed ......Read More
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Pens for Kids Update - our 2017 Christmas Appeal
Last year's Pens for Kids appeal resulted in 20,000 Staedtler Stick pens being donated to Build on Books, a charity that works hard to improve the lives of some of the poorest people in Africa. We recently received an update from them, to say that ......Read More
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Ruitertassen - When Tradition Becomes Passion
We introduced you to our Cult Pens Ruitertassen notebook covers in the April 2018 newsletter, but only briefly! We thought that now - when people are planning holidays and should have something long-lasting in which to record their adventures - was a good time to ......Read More
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Revision with Stabilo
Whenever I open the fridge, I'm faced with a maths formula. Now, I'm not a maths person (English is more my thing), but my daughter bravely (or stupidly?) chose to study maths for one of her A Levels and is now in the thick of ......Read More
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History of the Pentel Sign Pen
When I joined Cult Pens, I admit to being a bit flummoxed by the phenomenon known as the 'Sign Pen'. How could you have a pen that was specifically for signing? Surely you could sign stuff with any old pen? Did it perhaps have permanent ......Read More
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Free international shipping offer
We're lucky to have lots of customers outside the UK and to help them out we're running a trial where ALL customers outside the UK will qualify for FREE tracked airmail shipping if they spend just £70* or more, as long as your shipment weighs less than ......Read More
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Journaling with Kuretake
About 18 months ago, Christina from Kuretake visited us, to tell us all about their amazing art products. She couldn't have been too traumatised by the experience because she came back! Either that or it's taken her this long to recover, but let's not go ......Read More
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Zebra Art & Craft
It's safe to say that whatever type of pen you need, Zebra has probably got it. Want a gel pen in a great range of colours? Check. Have a small bag and want a small pen to fit into it, but one that 'Expandz' to ......Read More
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#ShoppingAtCultPens
Amanda, co-founder of Cult Pens, went shopping to prepare for a trip to Hong Kong. She wasn't the only one #ShoppingAtCultPens, though - see what we bought and why, and let us know what you bought, and what you did with it. We'll let Amanda ......Read More
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Field Notes Tenth Anniversary
Field Notes was a simple idea. Designer Aaron Draplin had developed a bit of a fascination with old farmer's notebooks. Companies that made seed, sold parts for tractors, or fertiliser, would make little books. Sometimes they were printed, with information about their products and how ......Read More
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Schneider: A Pen for Every Occasion
Schneider. In their words, 'the right refill for each pen'. But they're so much more than refills! So where do I start?? '…at the beginning,' I suppose, as the King said in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Well then. The beginning, I suppose, would be in Germany's ......Read More
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Cult Pens Journal With a Purpose
I like lists. Especially To Do lists. They make me feel like I've achieved something. I've even been known to get something done, and then add it to my To Do list retrospectively, just for the pleasure of crossing it off. I know I'm not ......Read More