You can write and draw with every part of the object! I’m not quite sure how you draw without your entire hand turning grey from the lead but maybe that’s a dumb question to ask. It’s probably more of a conversation piece/beautiful item for your desk type of thing. Check out all the different graphite objects!

Uhh yeah, doesn’t get any better than this. “Who said paper can’t be fun?”! See more pics of this packaging by Ryan Raschbaum here

Hey more uses for office supplies! I can’t get enough of these ideas from Real Simple (there are 1, 2, 3 other posts about them) Now I’ve got an excuse to buy a xylophone!

- CD case ice scraper
- Placemat mousepad
- Name tags as address labels
- Slinky desk organizer
- Trouser sock cord holder
- Egg carton paint palette
- Film canister stamp dispenser
- Xylophone message board
- Coffee filter screen cleaner

See if you can spot the differences between these two HON office photos. The first person to submit all of the differences to contests@shoplet.com will win a 20% off coupon to Shoplet.com! Congratulations to last week’s winner, Melania Gomez!

Working looks quite cheery in Playmobil world. I love that mini coffee maker and that little Playmobil man’s poofy brown hair!

Images: 1 | 2 | 3

Our weekly giveaway for this week is sponsored by Royal Sovereign! I’m super excited about this giveaway because I spent hours sorting and rolling coins when I was younger. I even remember a road trip when my dad paid me 10 bucks to sort and roll all the change in his change pot. If only I had one of these coin sorters! We are giving away two coin sorters – the Royal Sovereign Fast Sort FS-4000 Digital Coin Sorter and the Royal Sovereign Sort ‘N Save Manual Sorter. (one for the intense coin sorter and one for the casual coin sorter :) ) Here’a little more about each of them –

Royal Sovereign Fast Sort FS-4000 Digital Coin Sorter

- Quickly and accurately sorts pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
- Auto advance feature allows coin tubes to automatically move forward as they are filled to begin filling the next empty tube for hands-free operation.
- Patented internal anti-jam device rotates to help free jammed coins.

Royal Sovereign Sort ‘N Save Manual Sorter

- No power required – simply turn the handle to sort coins into wrappers.
- Sorts all coins accurately.
- Includes four coin tubes and four wrappers, one of each denomination.

Ready to win one of the coin sorters? Here’s how to enter:

Leave a comment on this post telling us why you need a coin sorter!

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We’ll pick two winners using random.org on Monday, May 21st! The first one we choose will get the digital sorter and the second one will get the manual sorter. Good luck!

6 really fun fashion DIYs using office supplies! See all the projects here

Nice ad for tape via I love sticky tape

Desk organizer made from cardboard – link

I love the colors of this old swingline stapler

Paper clip portrait

Pretty trash can from Matteria

Babel Papers Tower!

You’ve probably seen this around the internet this week – Renova Color Toilet Paper

High school burglary – they stole a stapler and a computer mouse. Shame shame

Make paper plate shark teeth! Dollar Store Crafts

Use painters tape to frame children’s artwork on the wall – Real Simple

Beautiful agate paper weight

Awesome ad

Linen clay notebook

I like this version of Come On Eileen

Have a great weekend!

-Grace

I was really excited when I saw recycled denim pencils the other day. Have you seen them? Are they old news? I realized that the post about them on Pencil Talk is from 2009. You can read a review about them there and buy them (a different brand) from Amazon. Greenline paper also sells recycled jeans pencils and recycled jeans rulers!

The Drafting Pencil Museum website has lots of old leadholder ads and catalogs to browse through plus a whole section with leadholder patents that are really interesting!