Editing The Pen Addict 206/transcript (section)

== All Things Stationery Blog ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, welcome, Tessa. We're going to talk about All Things Stationery with you, which is the wonderful name of your wonderful blog, and that's why we wanted to have you on. We're going to take care of a quick bit of business up front, Myke, if you want to announce the winners of our Retro 51 giveaway that we did last week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, so we had three Retro 51s to give away last week, and I'll be confirming with these winners separately and getting kind of address information and stuff like that. But I want to congratulate Isaiah, Elina, and Jake. They were the three winners. I will be contacting the three of you separately. So if you have one of those three names, you can furiously check your email in the hopes that it's you that has been picked. So congratulations to our three winners. I'll be emailing them today. So you probably have already had the email before the episode is released to the world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, and we will be getting those Retro 51 pins directly from them. They're going to send them to me, and then Myke will copy me on the emails, and I will get your addresses and ship them out. But this was awesome. Thanks for Retro 51 to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah, they're great. And I'm very excited to get some of my stuff in. I've seen that some of the new ones, like the Dr. Gray, for example, is glowing in the dark.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no way. I didn't notice that. Well, that's perfect with the skeleton. So that's sitting on my desk. I haven't even opened the box yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, man, you're killing me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have a desk full of boxes yet that I have yet to go through.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I assume that's just your life.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. I put a picture up this morning of just like four fountain pen boxes that I had sitting there that I was about to go through. But that doesn't even count all the other stuff. I know that's what, Tessa, your desk looks like that too, right? I mean, you get a lot of the kits, like a lot of the subscription kits. I noticed you review a lot of those. What is the height of goods on your desk right now? Is it overflowing?

'''Tessa Sowry:''' Yeah, I have real guilt when it comes to like being sent stuff and then not being able to feature it quickly enough. But yeah, I've got a couple of piles going on at the moment.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and one of the things, you know, I did want to mention before we really get into it, you know, we're talking about the Retro 51 and I looked on your blog, there's no Retro 51 review.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' I know. I've never used a Retro 51.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Myke is going to pass out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How? How has this happened?

'''Tessa Sowry:''' I don't know. Yeah, I was listening to last week's and I was thinking, oh, maybe I should try and try one quickly. But alas, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's great. Well, let's get into it. And I want to learn about your blog and how you got started. And I was looking, you know, as I was getting ready for this episode, you just started the blog in 2014. The way, you know, I've talked to you and the way I read your blog, it's like, I feel like you've been around for like five, six, seven years. And it's been like two and a half. So tell us how all things stationary got started.