Gallison Green Notecards

Well, I must say, these notecards are FANTASTIC! Shannon of Galison sent this little number out to me quite some time ago, but I managed to get myself rather sick, and along with overtime at work, havent had a chance to review them! *smacks self*.

Anywho, she sent me a package of The Little Blue Birds Writer's Notecards. I am so pleased with them! In fact, I only have two sets of card and envelope left!

I was completely blown away by how well these guys took to my fountain pen...even the most wet of pens! And they were great with my Pilot G2's and Hi-Tec-C's! Typically, My Hi-Tec-C pens get all scratchy if I dont use the write paper, but I had no problem with them!

These guys are from the Galison Green Collection and are made out of 100% recycled materials, so you can go green whilst you write! The collection also includes notebooks, note pads, notecards, and more writers notes!

Now lets talk design. These are adorable.
The end. These come in two colors of card, with blue envelopes. I only had the red left!

Cute, right? The other color is shown here, via the Galison website:

I think the cutest thing though, is the envelope! It has a little blue bird on the front, and then a blue bird and flowers on the back. Very mod-ish! The envelopes also include 'To' and 'From' and three lines a piece for return address and the postal address of whoever is receiving this fabulous note!

Please excuse the lighting! Blackberry photos! I'm not allowed to sue the camera. :/

Back:

Overall, these guys are fantastic, and I do plan on purchasing another set or two once I have the money! At $11.00 for twelve notecards and envelopes, it's practically stealing! I would love to try out the William Morris Evening Garden Writer's Notecards set, the Bon Voyage Writer's Notecards, or the Leaf Garden Writer's Notecards! I'd be tickled if I could afford one of their organizers or journals, too! Perhaps sometime in the future! Being a college student is wonderful, isn't it? haha>

You can check out Galison at:

www.facebook.com/galisonmudpuppy and www.twitter.com/galisonmudpuppy

Outside of notecards, they also carry journals, address books, planners/organizers, labels/stickers, fun sticky notes (seriously, SO CUTE!, photo albums, various notepads, and even games and puzzles for children!

Giveaway! Lotta Losten

One of my favorite bloggers Kaylah of The Dainty Squid is hosting an awesome giveaway care of Lotta Losten

"I'm Lotta Losten, a recently turned 30 years old girl from Gothenburg, Sweden. I make one of a kind jewelry out of coloured copper wire and things like vintage glass beads and crystals from old chandeliers. My jewelry is often inspired with shapes that come into being from an accident. Like shattered glass or pieces of broken plates. Those shapes that you mostly just refer to as part of a broken shape, not a complete form of it's own. I love that kind of worn beauty!"

What you'll win! Lotta is giving away a necklace pendant, with included chain, from her series called Spear or Splinter. The winner will get to choose the colors and size themselves and it will be made specially for them, because every single one of Lotta's jewelry pieces are one of a kind.

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*All information posted regarding this giveaway is care of The Dainty Squid for promotion of her giveaway. Photo care of Lotta Losten

EcoSystem and Field Notes review!

This review was taken from a previous blog attempt of mine! You can view it here for reference!

Two reviews in one! yes! I have a lot of extra time tonight, can you tell? Anyways, I have been meaning to review these guys to quite some time. I picked them up via online shopping and they've been sitting on my shelf for a while.

Are you guys ready for this? TWO fountain pen friendly brands!

First up is Field Notes. This brand has because pretty popular with fountain pen users, and I now know exactly why. They are fantastic. Equally as fantastic as EcoSystem products. The paper is smooth, but not slippery like some thick papers can be, and it has a bit of a grip.

In the Field Note's online shop, I purchased the Original 3-Pack, in graph and lined.

These guys are adorable and resemble pocket sized Moleskine Cahiers, but oh so much better! They are even covered in Kraft! The Original 3-Pack are offered in four varieties:

- ruled.
- graph.
- plain.
- mixed.

These tiny guys run at $9.95 per package, with shipping at $5.50 for USPS Priority, which is actually a pretty good deal, right? Right.

These beauties measure in at 3-1/2” by 5-1/2” and are bound using a "rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process." They contain 48 memo-sized pages of gorgeous paper!

As well as a information on both the inside front cover and backside inside cover. Note, I only photographed the backside.

As far as fountain penning goes, FN's react great! These samples were written with my orange Lamy, Medium Nibbed Safari, filled with a dark blue-purple mix that I accidentally made.

Front:

Back(what bleedthrough? I see no bleedthrough? What's bleedthrough? haha.):

*Also note, that in both samples(Eco and FN), I also did squiggles over each other 1, 2, 3nad three layers.)

Overall, absolutely wonderful, right!? If only they came in larger sizes. *sigh*. HOWEVER...they do come in colors! And even limited editions! If only I could get my hands on some of those puppies!

ONTO THE NEXT ONE....Ecosystem! I love these notebooks. The colors are great! I got myself the lime green/kiwi 'Author' in the small size. Measures in at 3 5/8" x 5 5/8". This particular version comes in other colors such as: Onyx, Lagoon, Kiwi, Watermelon, Clementine, and Grape. I would LOVE to try out some of their other items, too! The colors are memorizing!

"Each ecosystem author journal features lined paper so you can write with well-being and sustainability of the earth in mind. The 100% post-consumer recycled paper is smooth and the lines are begging to be written between.
Choose a cover format, flexi or hard; choose from our wide variety of colors; and, for a final touch, think about a pocket-insert for added functionality." Eco Website

These guys are fairly affordable and the small version that I have was $9.95 at our local bookstore. Sadly, they only had the small ones!

The paper quality in this notebook is wonderful. I think I am in love. With my wet Safari, I had no bleeding. NO BLEEDING! I used the same exact ink as I used above and had even better results! There is also an elastic band to keep your goodies from falling out of the book, as well as a colorful flap on the back!

Flap:

Front:

Backside:

Fabulous, right? I think so. I plan on converting mine into an address book! Be sure to check out more of this environmentally friendly company's products! The Adviser Planner and Pocket Inserts look really cool!

An awesome site!

Hey folks! I just wanted to do a quick post about a site that I just discovered via another blog, My Happy Mailbox. I was a bit hesitant at first, thinking that it was another overpriced website, but it turned out to be a great website for those of us who looove stationary and writing supplies! They even have quite a few items on clearance! I hope to purchase my Moleskine weekly planner once I have the money to do so, and hopefully a G.Lalo pad and envelope set!

Anyways, without further adieu, I present Europeanpaper.com! They carry everything from fine stationary (fountain pen friendly!) to notecards to planners, journals, and even various writing utensils!

No mailll.

Saturday, no mail came. How disappointing! Well, okay, I lied. I did get a postcard from my eye doctor telling me that I needed to schedule my check-up for January. Apparently, according to my dad, they just send those out to get us in and spend money. Hm. It seems there is still a lot for me to learn about being an adult!

On a nicer note, I received some goodies this week! A very nice friend of mine was able to send me some Moomin postcards from Finland! They are really neat! I have two sets of each.

I am especially a fan of the funky sized ones! Cool, right? She even sent me some Moomin coffee mugs! Oddly enough, they are significantly smaller than our mugs...perhaps my dad just bought massive ones because he drinks pot after pot of coffee.

I love them!

OH. MY. GOODNESS.

I just had to post this. I'm doing it quickly before I go out to return some Christmas papers my grandmother and I bought. We spend a good hour trying to find the right Christmas stationary for her yearly letter and FINALLY got them all printed up at the FedEx store! They came out great. Before we went, I had picked up the mail and little did I know....THIS WAS IN MY MAIL! It is from a pen pal of mine that shall remain nameless.I know it's a bit big, but if I had sized it smaller, it would have been less impressive. Excuse the finger in the photo, haha. Below is the photo is was taken from.

Good Grief.

I can't believe that I haven't posted a mail photo when this is a mail-loving blog! Either way, here is the first! A few weeks ago, I wrote to Katie of For the Love of Mail and had a wonderful response to my first letter! She is such a sweetheart, and I follow her blog as well as write to her! This time around, I made her and especially colorful letter! Unfortunately, it was kind of ruined by the crap photo quality of my BlackBerry. Next time, I'm either highjacking my mother's iPhone (since I have to way another year to buy one of my own. urggh!) or my 16 year old brother's new camera.

ANYWAYS. First, I am going to post the photo of my first letter to her. At the moment, it's nine in the morning which really doesn't seem too early, but it is for me (I go to sleep around 2am.) and I don't feel like trudging upstairs to get her reply to photograph!

Here is my first, care of her website/photo:

For the above piece of mail art, I used a vintage (if 'vintage' means the early 90's, hahaha.) page from a book on Dolphins that I read as a young girl as well as a "Hello, my name is..." label, and several vintage stamps, which were adhered with my favorite glue-ish substance, glossy ModgePodge! Also, my favorite Pixar postage stamp was used!

Now for my newest letter to here! Prepare to be dazzled! No, literally, dazzled. It's sparkly! I used a bunch of rhinestones and covered the ENTIRE front of the envelopes, adhering them with the same glossy ModgePodge. We shall see if it survived the mail system! I even used the same Pixar stamps! :D