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So welcoming. I want to sit on your desk to write a childhood romance, about lost love and leisurely lust.

 

 

 

I don't know what resolution other's have their monitors set to, but mine is 1024 x 768 and I can't see these big pictures without side scrolling. And it is really hard to enjoy pictures when you can only see half of it at a time.

 

Please resize your pictures before posting them.

 

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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So, I went ahead and got close-ups of where I keep my newly aquaired ink collection and new pen display stand, along with a close up of my small ink chart and a *clean* snap shot of my desk.

Yes, I had to post new pics because I was ashamed of the messiness of the earlier post ;-)

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http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd274/thecatsaidquack/pen.jpg

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Don't have a computer desk anymore because I've only got a laptop now. Thought it was about time I showed off my writing desk though (complete with postcard swap postcards ready to go out).

 

The desk I'd guess is 1930s, it's oak and cost me £15, my inks are all in the drawer under the writing part. If I'm not using my desk then I have an 1880s writing box in ebony and mother of pearl, my pictures of that were taken at my old house with it sitting on top of my old desk. The chair cost nothing, a beat up old Ercol thing that I sanded down and stained.

 

 

One of my aims this year is to acquire a nice desk set pen to go with my desk, keep looking at Sheaffers and Parkers, but so far I keep being outbid on Ebay and I always find them on here after they've been sold.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/IMG_1026.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/PIC_0016.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/writing_box.jpg

 

I'm sitting here drooling over your desk.

It's gorgeous.

I'd probably be afraid to use it though. I'd manage to find a way to scratch it up or something, which would have me in tears.

 

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd274/thecatsaidquack/pen.jpg

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Hi Fountain Pen friends.

 

Here is a picture of my desk.

 

Do you like it.

 

Best regards

Skrivarn "The writer"

 

Yes, I do like it. In fact, I love it! I always enjoy a good classic desk. You have done a very nice job. BTW, welcome to FPN.

"Instant gratification takes too long."-Carrie Fisher

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Welcome Skrivarn. Your desk is magnificent. Such character and style in those wooden desks. The old books set everything off nicely. I'm curious what is the portrait on the wall?

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Welcome Skrivarn. Your desk is magnificent. Such character and style in those wooden desks. The old books set everything off nicely. I'm curious what is the portrait on the wall?

 

Hi openionated,

The portrait is the old swedish king Oscar II and his family.

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Skrivarn, your desk is amazing! It looks so beautiful.

 

If you don't mind my asking - what is that big gold, round thing at the back?

 

Shangas,

The big gold thing is an ink pot in brass.

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Oooooh, ASmileForYourScrapbook is reading "The Historian." I just finished that a couple of weeks ago. I wanted it to go on and on, as I'm such a sucker for a good vampire novel.

 

Lovely setup for your desk and inks. I'm trying to get a shelf to set up inks in the bathroom, which is where I end up filling pens. It just wasn't working out keeping inks at my desk. No spillage, just needed water to flush syringes, etc.

 

 

 

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Barny,

 

Thanks for the reply. This is my home office, I work mostly out of my home so I have tried to equip it with as much hi and low tech as possible. I have an issue with wanting as much as possible at my "finger tips" and feel I have quite a large work space with maybe too much on the desk. I have been reading this book called Getting Things Done and it has helped me better organizing my desk and my daily plan.

 

Perry

 

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Barny,

 

Thanks for the reply. This is my home office, I work mostly out of my home so I have tried to equip it with as much hi and low tech as possible. I have an issue with wanting as much as possible at my "finger tips" and feel I have quite a large work space with maybe too much on the desk. I have been reading this book called Getting Things Done and it has helped me better organizing my desk and my daily plan.

 

Perry

 

 

'Getting things done by David Allen' hmmm... I think i have this book and placed it somewhere or maybe not.

 

"If a Cluttered Desk is a Sign of a Cluttered Mind, What's an Empty Desk a Sign Of?" -Albert Einstein

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I've read this book too = I'm sort of half way through setting it up, but I seem to have stalled a bit! I can't show you all a picture of my desk as it is so messy at the moment - I am truly ashamed of it!

My five rules for living:

1. Free your heart from hatred, 2. Free your mind from worries, 3. Live simply, 4. Give more, 5. Expect less

 

My pens: MB Greta Garbo; MB 149; MB Mozart; Lamy Safari; Lamy Al-Star; Lamy Joy

 

My work: Bid Writing, Copywriting and more!

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Hollyuk,

 

I go through ups and downs with my desk, clean sometimes and messy other times. I am finding the book is helping a lot. I have taken ideas from the book and applied them and found that that it was hard at first to change some of my habits, but once I did it for 30 or 40 days it is now second nature for me. The difficulty seems to be in the first 30 days or so. It is a difficult task to change existing habits.

 

Perry

 

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Hi Fountain Pen friends.

 

Here is a picture of my desk.

 

Do you like it.

 

Best regards

Skrivarn "The writer"

 

Skrivarn,

 

I like your desk very much, and I think I see some large and interesting seals for sealing wax on your desk. Do you collect them?

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Hi Fountain Pen friends.

 

Here is a picture of my desk.

 

Do you like it.

 

Best regards

Skrivarn "The writer"

 

Skrivarn,

 

I like your desk very much, and I think I see some large and interesting seals for sealing wax on your desk. Do you collect them?

 

Rena,

Yes I collect sealstamps. Not a big collection but I have some interesting ones.

Do you collect too?

 

Skrivarn

 

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Hi Fountain Pen friends.

 

Here is a picture of my desk.

 

Do you like it.

 

Best regards

Skrivarn "The writer"

 

Skrivarn,

 

I like your desk very much, and I think I see some large and interesting seals for sealing wax on your desk. Do you collect them?

 

Rena,

Yes I collect sealstamps. Not a big collection but I have some interesting ones.

Do you collect too?

 

Skrivarn

 

Skrivarn,

 

Yours look very interesting. I would like to say I am at the start of collecting them. I have several nice modern ones, and just last year found this one vintage seal at a good price. I was told it was from the Georgian era, but don't know if it is really that old. The seal itself is bloodstone. I hope it is okay to post this picture within the "show us your desks" topic — it is a portion of my desk at least. :)

 

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k313/Cankapopa/BloodstoneSeal.jpg

 

 

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Skrivarn, what's the box on the lefthand side of your desk? Some sort of writing box? Love your desk too.

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