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National Doodle Day 2014

By Paperstone on February 24, 2014 in Fun, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
National Doodle Day 2014

Stuck on the end of a phone and feeling bored? Most of us like to grab a pen and have a doodle – but why? Doodling helps to relieve our boredom and stop us from getting too stressed – it’s a playful way to deal with pressure. But is a doodle something more than an emotional […]

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Pilfering Paper and Pens?

By Paperstone on December 9, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Pilfering Paper and Pens?

Are you responsible for the stationery supplies at your place of work? If so, you’d be well advised to keep it all under lock and key, away from light-fingered colleagues! More than a quarter of British workers brazenly admit they have stolen items from their employers, according to the findings of a new survey. Seventy […]

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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

By Paperstone on November 20, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

We do it pretty much every day, but take it for granted: WRITING. Writing is one of the most powerful tools we have as human beings. It enables us to permanently record thoughts, ideas and feelings without someone else being present. We can use writing as an aid if we have a poor memory. And […]

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Keep Left for National Left-Hander’s Day

By Paperstone on August 12, 2013 in Fun, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Keep Left for National Left-Hander’s Day

Today, 13th August, sees the 23rd annual celebrations of the ‘leftie’ for National Left-Hander’s Day. Whilst around 10% of the population are left-handed, there are very few who are actually fully left-handed. Many lefties play sport with their right hand, holding the golf club, baseball bat or tennis racket in their right hands. During the […]

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Ephemeral Writing

By Paperstone on July 13, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments

Invisible ink may seem like an outdated concept – but even in the 21st century it is still being used to spread secret messages. As recently as 2008, a British man was found guilty of possessing invisible ink diaries for the purposes of terrorism, and back in 2002, a gang was indicted for spreading a […]

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Licensed to Quill?

By Paperstone on June 15, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Licensed to Quill?

Do you want a James Bond lifestyle? Well, you’d better buy a Parker pen then! The classic Parker Jotter pen – invented in the 1950s and immortalized in the 1995 James Bond film Goldeneye – is still highly prized by collectors. In Goldeneye, Q-Branch supplies Bond with a Jotter pen that is a C4 grenade: […]

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“The pen is mightier than the sword”

By Paperstone on June 4, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
“The pen is mightier than the sword”

“The pen is mightier than the sword” – an immortal line, but do you know who penned it? Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (what a mouthful!)  was a 19th century English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was probably as popular in those days as Jeffrey Archer is today, and wrote a […]

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The Parker Jotter

By Paperstone on May 24, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
The Parker Jotter

As far as I can remember the Parker pen has always been something of a stationery equivalent of the Ferrari. Well, it may not be the pencil case Ferrari, but it’s no Ford Fiesta. That much is clear. In 1995 this office/public school favourite became somewhat cooler. Indeed, it played a star role in the […]

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Making a Point

By Paperstone on April 24, 2013 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Making a Point

American students from the University of New Hampshire in Durham have made a point about their crippling debts with a sculpture made from 32,320 pencils The sculpture, shaped like a giant graduation cap, was unveiled on April 15th (2013) in a bid to grab the attention of legislators, and each pencil represents a dollar’s worth […]

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Luxury Pencilling

By Paperstone on December 28, 2012 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Luxury Pencilling

Got any money left after Christmas? Thought not. So splashing out £150 on a pencil may not be a top priority at the moment. But just in case you’re still drunk, Faber-Castell presents its Perfect Pencil which you’ll be hard pushed to find for less than £160 with delivery. The Graf Von Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil […]

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