Today I took part in Philofaxy’s conference chat and I must say I enjoyed myself! It was great hearing from like-minded people and their stories and ideas about what’s happening in the Filofax world! Am really looking forward to the next one and also hopefully meeting up with everyone at some point in the future! It was nice hearing about things I did not know about and what was coming up, can’t wait to see some of those things coming out. Gave me some ideas and helpful pointers to get…
Read MoreMonth: May 2012
Oh Filofax why do you mock us?
I have just spent twice as long hole punching using my Filofax brand A5 punch than I did cutting all the pages in half using my trimmer – despite having to take the trimmer apart because I put too much paper in for it to cut and the blade moved. The hole punch is seriously slow, not even slightly helpful as you can only punch about 2 sheets of regular printer paper at once using it. I am fairly sure my muscles got more of a workout than a weight…
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Well I mentioned in my previous post that I had recently purchased a new Lamy AL-star fountain pen and I was having issues with writing so far using it. I have been looking online about how to hold a fountain pen properly in case I still haven’t mastered the whole pen holding technique (I only started holding my pen with 1 finger instead of 2 whilst I was in the later years of being at uni and it improved my handwriting and helped get rid of a lot of wrist…
Read MoreStationery Crazy
This month I have gone all stationery crazy and have sorted myself out with a new personal sized Filofax, new inserts for it from Paperchase, a new Lamy fountain pen and Dodo pad inserts for both my new personal sized Filofax and my existing A5 sized Filofax in order to test them out. I am loving my new Filofax; it is a purple Songbird in personal size, so a little smaller than my A5 and therefore lighter and more portable. I like my A5 Filofax, it’s a zipped Lyndhurst but…
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