The Christmas season is a great time to make time for your writing passions and explore some festive-inspired storylines. With snow-covered settings and family reunions, winter makes the perfect backdrop for many story writers. Let the merriment of Christmas seep into your tales, or perhaps explore a sinister side to these dark, wintery days. These…

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Christmas adverts are now showing on the TV and so we all know that Christmas is sneaking up on us rapidly. This month, we thought we’d showcase some of our favourite pen sets, which make wonderful gifts for friends and family, colleagues and employees — or yourself! If you like one of the gift sets…

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It’s the most wonderful time of year! It’s also an excellent time to reflect on Christmas and what exactly it means to you and your family. If you journal, Christmas is a great topic to think about — after all, you may very well have celebrated it every single year since you were born. Have…

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We all know words such as “snowball”, “mistletoe” and “carols”, but what about “rumball”, “bubbly-jock” and “kissing bough”? There are some wonderful wintry words from the past which have fallen out of common use. Learn about them here, and why not try bringing them back with your friends and family this Christmastime! Kissing Bough A…

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We may live in a digital age, but Christmas cards are still very much alive and kicking, and what better way is there to share your festive well wishes with loved ones than in a beautiful handwritten card? Printed and personalised cards from the likes of Moonpig and similar are lovely, however nothing is as…

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Christmas is coming, and while the goose is busy getting fat, the rest of us are stressing about what to buy our loved ones for gifts this year. Perhaps you have a stationery lover to buy for, somebody who likes to be organised, an artist, or maybe you need some ideas for what to ask…

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Choosing Christmas gifts for loved ones can be really hard, however well we know them. Yet a gift card or voucher just doesn’t seem personal enough; they don’t suggest the level of thought most of us would like to think goes into our gift choosing. So, how do we decide what to buy? Below are…

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In case you needed another reason to buy a pen or pencil for a loved one this Christmas, I’d like to point out that the boxes they come in tend to be really easy to wrap! I personally enjoy gift wrapping, but I know many people who don’t, and so the best thing those people…

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Now that we have hit the month of December, and Black Friday is out of the way (not forgetting cyber Monday), it is time to talk about a few alternative Christmas presents. With so many computer games, books and DVDs released at this time of year, it is sometimes hard to remember the educational gifts…

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If anyone in your life has a thirst for writing, a passion to paint, or an appetite to scribe reams of beautiful poetry, you’ll know just how difficult it can be to buy these arty types a Christmas gift. With this quick and easy list however, there’s something for every artist in your life: For…

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