Heartful Handmade Blog

classy handmade wooden writing tools

Good writing instruments have always been fascinating to me.  I have no idea why, because my handwriting is indecipherable (even to me) and I've progressed over the years from typewriters to word processors to computers as my only route to legible written communications.  All the same, I've always loved beautiful pens and pencils.  So, when I popped in on the Nashville shop Sarabby Creations, I was delighted to find a beautiful collection of handmade wooden pens in styles and wood types that range from classic to exotic.  I chose this blond Zebrawood ballpoint pen because of its distinctive woodgrain and the simple, elegant styling by Christian Stone, its talented creator.  But you should click over and check out the selection of high-quality handmade Sarabby Creations pens for yourself.  This beauty is $20.

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Sarabby Creations is also in Handmade Lookup.

crafty penmanship

David and Leah Gessner give new life to distressed and discarded Vermont lumber remnants by transforming them into useful everyday items—high quality pens and pencils. I visited their website, Handmade Maple Pens, and instantly fell in love with their colorful thick barreled Artist's Sketch Pencils. With their 5.6 mm 4B leads and $75 price tag, these objects of beauty are also practical and reasonably priced drawing tools. They come in natural or black Vermont Tiger Maple, but I find the brightly stained (red, blue, green, orange, purple) finishes artistically inspiring. These are happy pencils.