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Weekly Wrap

September 9, 2011 By john

Quick contest, just for fun. In last week’s “Weekly Wrap” I had a song on there by a certain rock band from the 80s. In the comments below, tell me what this week’s band has in common with last week’s. Contest rules posted at the end of this post.

Things about stuff we enjoyed reading this week!

September Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper – A Penchant for Paper
Why Does Writing Making Us Smarter? – AOL Healthy Living (original at FYI Living)
STMT X Iceland Kit – Rad and Hungry ( Also read The Low Down )
Royal Langnickel Sketching Pencils Set Review – Lung Sketching Scrolls ( Thanks! )
Micro-Journaling – Rhodia Drive

Pens/Pencils

The Ubiquitous Staedtler Pencils – Bleistift
Edison Collier Silver Marble Fountain Pen with Steel Broad Point Nib – Office Supply Geek
Staedtler Avant Garde Light Multi Pen Review – The Pen Addict
Tru Point Standard Leadholder Review – Lung Sketching Scrolls
Pilot G2 Battle – Black Ink – No Pen Intended
Pilot V Sign Pen Review – Tiger Pens Blog
Pilot Downforce .7 – Economy Pens

Paper

Monsieur Notebook-Sketch – Okami-Whatever
Moleskine Introduces Limited Edition Star Wars Collection – Design Taxi
Review: Black n’ Red Journal – The Reserved Writer
Matchbook-sized Notebooks made from paint chips – Studio 336

Ink

Diamine Registrar’s Blue, An Iron Gall Ink – The Dizzy Pen

Rules o da Contest (or How to Win Stuff!)

Post your answer(s) to the question in the comments section of this post.
One entry per person. Multiple entries will be rejected.
Only correct answers will be counted.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! … winner that is. And that person shall be chosen by the True Random Number Generator at random.org.
Contest deadline is Tuesday September 13 at 12 midnight PST.
Winner will be posted on September 16th’s Weekly Wrap so come back here next week and see if you’ve won.
Winner must leave a comment next week to claim the prize and email me an address where they would like their prize shipped. ( john (at) pencilwrap.com )
Contest is open to anyone on this planet as long as USPS will let me ship there.
See below if you’re curious as to what the prize is.

Two Platinum Preppy Fine Nib (Pink & Green) and one Pilot Varsity (Black). FYI, yes, these pens are used but hey, if you’ve never tried them out, you get to try them for free! Totally worth it!

Journal Giveaway at Renaissance Art

July 28, 2011 By john Leave a Comment

I’ve been stupid busy the last several months with deadlines and the like at work. Sorry I haven’t posted recently but I will be making a comeback soon. (More on that in a later post) What is important is that Renaissance Art is giving away a free leather journal! You have between now and August 15th to enter. Hurry!

ENTER HERE USING FACEBOOK

And the Hoards Go To….

January 17, 2011 By john 5 Comments

Below are the winners of the “Anti-Hoarding Giveaway”. Winners have until this Friday to email me their shipping address ( john [at] pencilwrap.com ) so that they won’t be passed over and their prize given to the next chosen. Below are the winners in the order that they were chosen by the True Random Number Generator at Random.org.

#14

I’m heading to the post office today to send out some eBay items ( another way I feed my pen addiction ) so if you email me your shipping address early I could send out your pens today! Thank you again to everybody that stopped by and entered.
And for those that didn’t win, be not dismayed, there will be many more chances this year.

Anti-Hoarding Giveaway!!!

January 11, 2011 By john 14 Comments

Written using black, blue and red Sharpie pens.

Since I ended 2010 by reorganizing my office and other parts of my house, I want to do as much as possible to keep it organized. Having too many of one kind of pen where your drawers overflow is not a good way to do that. Plus, with the amount of other pens that I have, it would take me a very long to time to use all of these pens. Before I would, I’m sure I would be on to others. So, I wanted to “share the wealth” so to speak (it was only $2 a pack and buy one get one free) and have these pens be used by people that I know would be happy to use them now. Rules and pics below.

How to winning!

Leave a comment on this post anytime between now and Sunday (01.16.2011) 11:59 pm (PST) telling everyone how many pens/pencils you proudly carry with you on a daily basis. (This way the comments aren’t all “Me, me ,me! Pick ME!!!!) One entry per person. Multiple entries will be disqualified. (Which means only your first comment will count) On Monday morning (01.17.2011) I will start up the True Random Number Generator over at Random.org and let it choose four winners. One pack of Sharpie Pens (Black, Blue, & Red) will go to each of the winners that send me an email (john[at]pencilwrap.com) with their shipping address after their names have been posted. If winners do not reply by Friday (01.21.2011) I will randomify more numbers and wait for them to reply every week (on Fridays) until the pens leave my office.

I ship worldwide so basically this giveaway is open to the planet. (Get on this Mauritius, I’ll ship to you again. I’m not afraid.)

Thank you for participating and good luck!

[ BTW, my answer is 24; 19 in my pencil wrap, 5 in my briefcase. ]

4 packs = 4 winners!

Ink Nouveau Survey/Giveaway

December 16, 2010 By john 1 Comment

Ink Nouveau is having a giveaway and you can enter now through the 19th. The minimum you need to do is fill out the survey on their site. They are picking 6 winners! Click on any of these pics to head over there for the details and to enter. Here are the prizes:

Noodler’s Clear Demonstrator Flex Nib Piston Fill Fountain Pen
Noodler’s December 25th (red/green) Flex Nib Piston Fill Fountain Pen
Noodler’s Black Swan in Australian Roses bottled fountain pen ink
J. Herbin Rouge Hematite 1670 Anniversary Ink (limited edition)
Rhodia ePure real leather notebook (not available in the US!)
BONUS!!! Noodler’s Mottled Green Ebonite aerometric/eyedropper flex nib pen!

What’s Your Perfect Notebook?

December 14, 2010 By john 1 Comment

AK over at Notebook Loves Pen is asking YOU! And when you tell her, you have the opportunity to win a surprise notebook!! She is shipping worldwide which means that everyone is eligible. So, think about the notebook that you would love to own, what it would have and all that stuff and write it in the comments over at her blog in order to enter. (I think mine would cost about $150) It ends this Thursday.

Winner: Moleskine Special Edition Giveaway

December 3, 2010 By john 5 Comments

I wanted to post this earlier from home but I don’t know if SkyNet is starting to become self-aware or what but at home and at work the internet is just super slow. Anyway, here is the winner of the Peanuts Moleskine Special Edition as picked by the Random Number Generator at random.org.

As per the rules stated in the contest, going by the order in which comments were received, Halden is the winner at number 28! Congratulations Halden. Email me (john@pencilwrap.com) within a week with your shipping info and I’ll send you your new notebook. If you don’t, I will have to pick another winner next Friday. (Don’t think that I won’t. I’ll do it.) We had fun doing this and I know there will be more in the near future.

Thank you again to everyone who stopped by, entered, reposted, tweeted, and took some time to read Pencilwrap.com.

Moleskine Special Editions Part2 (+Giveaway!!)

November 29, 2010 By john 54 Comments

Well, I have finally received all of the special edition Moleskines that I ordered (and then some but we’ll get to that soon enough). I have taken many pics and am pretty happy with what they did to them even though I feel that they could have done a little more. The only special edition embellishments to the journals seem to be on the cover, the inside front cover and the very back of each journal. (See pics) Along with that they threw in some stickers. Other than that, the journal is identical to any other Moleskine journal. I feel as though they should have added stuff to every page of the journal. Maybe they could have added a different character on the bottom corner of every page or the like. Perhaps Snoopy’s doghouse on each page or something. Anything to have made the rest of the journal feel “special” would have been nice. They did more on the Peanuts versions by adding the “Peanuts Family Tree” diagram on the back cover. (The heart drawn in for the “little red-haired girl” as Chuck’s crush is funny).
Both versions come with stickers and you get the same stickers no matter the size you buy. The special editions only come in either lined or blank pages and there is a different cover for each. There are four covers total for each. (large blank, large lined, pocket lined, pocket blank) The yellow Pac-Man pocket-sized that I got has blank pages, the rest are lined.
As with standard Moleskine notebooks, they are made in China and that sometimes adds quality issues. I took a pic with the large Pac-Man and Peanuts notebooks next to each other so you could see how the binding differed. Note the extra glue on the Pac-Man notebook and how the paper is tight right up against the spine. It actually opens a little flatter than the Peanuts notebook.

Peanuts notebook on top.

OK, now getting to that “and then some” part of this post. This is my first official giveaway. Or as Notebooker puts it, my “cheap ploy for new readers”. In my case, not so cheap since I did somehow order an extra copy of the large Peanuts ruled notebook. So, see proof in the pic below that you will be entering to win a sealed copy of the large Peanuts 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Ruled Notebook. Here are the rules:

Giveaway Rules:

1. Leave one comment on this post anytime between now, and Thursday night, December 2nd at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You are limited to one entry. Tell everyone and everyone. (yes I typed that on purpose)

2. I will pick one winner at random from the comments section of this post. The comments will be numbered in the order they are received, i.e. the first comment is #1, the second #2, and so on. The Random Integer Generator at random.org will be used to pick the number of the winner.

3.The contest winner will be posted on Friday, December 3rd. The winner will have one week to email me with their shipping info at john@pencilwrap.com. If the winner does not e-mail me within a week, I will have the Random Generator pick another number and that person will have a week to contact me, and so on and so forth until either someone claims the thing or I run out of numbers.

I will ship internationally. That was the everyone part of the message above. Please note that comments are moderated so your comment will not show up automatically. Remember, only one comment per person qualifies.