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We Love This LEGO Office Cubicle

By Paperstone on 6 November 2014 in Fun, Office Life, Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments
We Love This LEGO Office Cubicle

We love this wonderfully accurate LEGO set showing an office worker flanked by his two trusty monitors while he chats with his colleague over a coffee and a cookie – and it could one day hit the shops. Submitted to LEGO Ideas by a user called Tobinsbricks, the model of this familiar scene could be […]

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Is This The World’s Spookiest Office Desk?

By Paperstone on 31 October 2014 in Fun, Office Furniture, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Is This The World’s Spookiest Office Desk?

What has happened to the Paperstone office this Halloween? The sales team are spooked, customer services are creeped out and the web team have the willies! A loud cackling can be heard from the stationery cupboard as pumpkins sprout from desks and ghosts and ghouls circle the cauldron that’s appeared in the kitchen. Our head […]

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Digital Man Blinks and Smirks With Astonishing Realism – Video

By Paperstone on 28 October 2014 in Fun with 0 Comments
Digital Man Blinks and Smirks With Astonishing Realism – Video

An unbelievably realistic “digital human” has been created by a computer games artist using lots of imagination, software and hardware. Chris Jones from Victoria, Australia, has unveiled “Mr Head”, who blinks, smirks, and has “astonishing realism”. A video of Mr Head (also known an Ed) has gone viral on YouTube. Mr Jones is an illustrator […]

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National Tree Week 2014

By Paperstone on 28 October 2014 in Fun with 0 Comments
National Tree Week 2014

Even in this digital age, paper is an essential part of our lives. At home and at work, we use paper for writing on, drawing on, and for wrapping things up. We use paper every day but we don’t spend much time thinking about where it comes from- we just take our notepads, post-its and […]

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November Is Also National Blog Posting Month

By Paperstone on 22 October 2014 in Fun, Office Life with 0 Comments
November Is Also National Blog Posting Month

November is National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) and this event celebrates all the weird and wonderful blogs out there! To take part, you have to post something on the NaBloPoMo website every day for the whole of November, and you will also have fun looking at all the other blogs posted there! If you don’t […]

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Annoying Office Habits in the UK

By Paperstone on 10 October 2014 in Fun, Infographics, Office Life with 0 Comments
INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Annoying Office Habits in the UK

Are you ticked off by loud typing, nauseated by nail clipping or does gossiping really get your goat? We surveyed 1,000 office workers across the UK to discover the horrible habits that send us desk jockeys into a jitter and created an infographic below. Sadly we couldn’t include them all (there were too many!). Have […]

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James Ward’s Adventures in Stationery reviewed

By Paperstone on 2 October 2014 in Fun, Office Supplies with 0 Comments
James Ward’s Adventures in Stationery reviewed

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward – Review by Kaz G. James Ward, author of Adventures in Stationery, knows that a book about stationery could be boring. As the organiser of the Boring Conference, and the I Like Boring Things blog, he’s fully aware that others see everything he […]

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October Is Make A Difference Month

By Paperstone on 1 October 2014 in Charity, Fun, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
October Is Make A Difference Month

October is Make a Difference Month when we are all encouraged to contribute to our communities and make the world a better place. The event is organised by the Community Service Volunteers (CSV), a UK-based volunteering and training charity which has been around for more than 50 years.  In the past 12 months, CSV has […]

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Help Host the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning this Friday

By Paperstone on 23 September 2014 in Charity, Fun, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Help Host the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning this Friday

Thinking of supporting the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday, September 26? It doesn’t have to be just about coffee and cake – there are some fun ways to spice up this annual fund-raiser for Macmillan Cancer Support. Here are some ideas from the Macmillan website – see if any of them take your fancy: Give your […]

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Jeans for Genes Day 2014

By Paperstone on 15 September 2014 in Fun, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Jeans for Genes Day 2014

A staggering half a million children and adults in the UK are living with genetic disorders. You can support them through Jeans for Genes Day this Friday, September 19. Jeans for Genes Day is an annual fundraising event that was started in the early 1990’s by two brothers in Dorset. So why not get your office […]

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