People have collected labels, newspaper clippings & greetings card for generations, the tradition of scrap booking is said by some to go right back to the seventeenth century.
Today you can find a huge number of tools, pens & markers for arts & crafts. As you would expect from a leading manufacturer for well over a century, Uni-ball offer a number of markers & pens including the Signo UM-120 SP, a gel rollerball that is available in a range of 8 different sparkling colours.
As the Chelsea Flower Show gets underway its hard to imagine a summer without it. This year our eyes can feast on the labours of a large number of newbie designers exhibiting for the first time.
I’m no expert in the garden & as I sit in the welcome sunshine searching for inspiration in my tiny plot on the landscape, what better time to write about an Artline Garden Marker.
Staedtler have been making pencils at the Nuremberg factory for nigh on 180 years, history books cite Friedrich Staedtler as being the first craftsman to make pencils from start to finish long before that, way back in 1662.
I think it’s safe to say that not all predictions come true. The most obvious are the various prophecies of the end of the world. Then there’s the paperless office, whilst George Pake was proved right when he had an inkling that we’d be able to “call up documents from files on the screen” & be getting mail from a “TV display terminal with a keyboard” we still seem attached to the good old pen & paper. If my recent experience with a Pentel gel is anything to go by I for one won’t be giving up on handwriting anytime soon.
Here is my review of the Pentel XM BL77 retractable gel pen.
I often wonder how Companies come up with the names for pens. Setting about writing a Zebra Ola review I discovered that Ola means wave in Spanish. Stretching the imagination maybe you could visualise “water waves” cut into the barrel, if not there is a hint in the symbol next to the branding on the pocket clip.