The Letter Bee Box - Stationery, PenPals & Journals - June Unboxing

The Letter Bee box is a monthly box curated by Patty from Furthermore Press. The box is aimed at everyone who loves letter writing, stationery and journals. Each box is themed and all the goodies inside the box relate to that theme in some way. love it!

I filmed my unboxing so that you can get a better sense of the products or do please keep on reading for photos of what I received.

About the box:

Boxes can be ordered through Patty's Etsy shop - Furthermore Press

Letter Bee box: $35US inc shipping in US   $30US + $22.50US shipping for UK which in totaly equates to £36. Patty also offers a Petite Letter Box: $22US + $5.95US shipping, outside of the US you need to get in touch with Patty so she can give you a quote.

As many of the items are unique and hand made there are a limited number of boxes each monthso get in quick if you want one!

This months theme was 'Write Away"...A celebration of handwriting and hand drawn lettering. As usual there is a card detailing all of the items inside as well as a sweet treat and some lovely tea.

On to the items then. Please note that there were lots of other bits but I have stuck to just showing some of the bigger items / my favourites so for a better look at the box contents you are best to watch the video!

Set of monogram letter cards, my initial of course!

A journal and a book to practice your lettering techniques with lots of different types of papers so you can see how ink handles on them.

A variety of different 'tools' for creating your lettering.

I think this has to be one of my favourites of the favourites as I have recently rediscovered my love for using wax seals on my letters. This one was handmade by Patty herself! And there was a cute little tray too!

As usual a lovely selection of note cards and postcards.

And a lovely selection of stickers.

Yet another wonderful box full of goodies. I loved the theme again this month and Patty's artwork is simply wonderful. Not everything is photographed so do check out the unboxing video to get a proper sense of what exactly is in the box. Definitely value for money in my opinion!

All in all another wonderful box full of goodies. I loved the theme again this month and Patty's artwork is simply wonderful. Not everything is photographed so do check out the unboxing video to get a proper sense of what exactly is in the box. Definitely value for money in my opinion!

PLEASE NOTE: I was given this / these product(s) in exchange for my honest review and opinion, the fact that I was given these does not alter my opinion in anyway. This review is my own personal opionion on the product / company, given in good faith and has not be sponsored or endorsed. None of the links are affiliate links

How to fill your fountain pen with bottled ink

I just thought I would do a quick little tutorial to show you (if you weren't sure) how to fill a fountain pen that takes ink from a bottle as opposed to ink cartridges. As you may know some of the June Brimbles Boxes contained pens like this and it has cause a little bit of confusion so here I show you how!


Where do you get the ink?

Bottled ink isn't as hard to come by as you may think, there are a few 'high street' / accessible places. I have the Cross brand ink in black which I purchased for £4 from Paperchase. I also know that WH Smith sell the Parker brand for about £8.

Adam is a total ink guru so I really reccommend you check out his blog for reviews on different ink brands and where to get some of the more exotic ones: http://www.thedeskofadam.com/blog?tag=ink

This weeks pages - cute little vardo

I am ever so in love with the illustrations by Helz Cuppleditch, I think she has just the sweetest style and I just can't get enough of them. I recently got a load of her range into the shop and I just want to use it all. All at once! I know that is silly but then I think if you find something you just simply love then sometimes you just can't get enough of it. I think you will understand what I mean, just look isn't it simply darling. That little vardo just has to be used. There is no other reason behind this week other than it is just the cutest thing ever. I know I am going to be using my planner loads this week just so that I can keep on looking at the cuteness!

Products Used
Planner: Websters Pages Color Crush Planner in Teal with matching folio
Planner Inserts: Websters Pages week on two pages
Washi Tape: Helz Cuppleditch Riverbank Revels available from my shop
Journal Tag: Websters Pages - These are the days collection
Paperclips: White star from Websters Pages.
Pen: My Etsy Shop
Stickers: my online shop

Watermelon Printable Planner Dashboard Freebie!!

I have a little present for you today! If you are following along with my June Instagram challenge you will have noticed that today, day 6 the prompt is 'watermelon'. Now if you are having trouble with this prompt, don't fret as I have something that you might be interested in! if you haven't started yet, don't fret you can start any time and just catch up!

I was sat there playing one evening with my watercolours and out popped this little watermelon print. I looked at it and thought that this would look super cute as a dashboard. Don't you think? I thought it would be perfect for Summer, refreshing every time you opened up your planner. I am really into watercolour prints at the moment. I am loving that imperfect look.

Because I am nice he he, I am giving this to you as a free download so that you can print this at home and enjoy.

The dashboards are available to download as pocket size (81x120mm) personal size (95x171mm) and A5 (148x210mm). You will need software that can 'unzip' the folder to release the files as both pdf and jpeg. If you don't have it, just seach for WinZip or 7zip or any other programme like this - some are free but most computers come with this software on these days. 

To download the files please click here. Please note that the dashboards that I am offering as freebies are different to the ones that I sell, so if you have already purchased any of my dashboards, don't worry these are in addition for you. If you haven't purchased any of my dashboards and would like to or just have a nose at them you can view them in my Etsy shop here.

Please note: These inserts are for your own personal use only and are NOT FOR RESALE as either printables or hard copy. Thank you.

I really hope you enjoy your new dashboard. If you use it please do tag me on any photos you share on social media as I would genuinely love to see what you do with them!

My Planner / Journal Set up for Travel

I spent more time deliberating over planner and journal supplies that I should take away with me than clothes. Seriously! I thought you might like to see the set up that I went with!



The fauxdori I show is an A5 size from: https://www.etsy.com/shop/loveneen I love it and totally reccommend. The quality is amazing and she is such a lovely lady to work with too!

Fauxbonichi Flip Through - March, April & May 2015

It's been a while but I am back with a flip through of my fauxbonichi! Here is a look at my pages from March, April and May of 2015. I don't know if the Fauxbonichi / Hobonichi has gone out of fashion at all but I don't see anywhere near as many flip throughs as I used to. I still love mine, just that life sometimes gets in my way and I have lots of other interests that I like to do too so it is a case of juggling them because I can't do everything in the evening!

Hope you enjoy my flip...

June Brimbles Box Reveal

**If you haven't received your box this month yet, you might want to not read!!**

It's time to reveal what was in the Brimbles Box this month, the month of June! if you haven't received yours yet you might want to stop reading! UK boxes should be with you by 3rd / 4th June and International after that.

If you would like to watch videos of unboxings from genuine customers as well as honest reviews from bloggers you can watch the YouTube Brimbles Box playlist As I say they are all very honest so you can get a better feel for what was inside. Here is my unboxing and video talk through of this months box:



So what was in the box this month? This months box is all about having fun...

Of course there is always a postcard from me which tells you more about the theme of the box:

I am not massively girly-girly in my day to day life but every now and then I do like to just go pink and, well, girly. I also can't deny that I love a bit of glitter. I love glitter and would put it on everything. When it comes to being girly, this area is something that is more reserved for stationery than it is for say clothes. I do like me a bit of girly stationery.

I am a tad excited about this box because it was a chance to unleash my inner girly, the child in me who was carefree and didn't give a damn about what anyone else thought of her. Sadly in adulthood life can get so busy and we can get so bogged down in our everyday that we forget sometimes to laugh and have fun. Remember when your friends cam round to play and you laod on the floor with your craft stuff and just created for creating sake? let's do that, let's pretend that we are all toegther with our box of stuff and let's just play!

So unleash your inner sparkle and be the Princess of your own story!

Much love, sequins and sparkles
Anna x

All boxes follow the same theme but what you receive in your box may not be the same as what someone else received. You will have received 5-7 items with a total RRP of £20.50

Items that were available for box inclusion were:

• Princess Stickers
• Princess Project Life card set (60 cards)
• Crown Fountain Pen
• Frog Sticky Notes
• Shopping List Pad
• Letter Writing Set
• Princess Pen
• Washi Tape

Those that ordered a planner box will have received an art (painted by me) dashboard as well as a planner charm. One of the following dashboards will have been received (randomly chosen by me) as either Personal or A5 size depending on which box size you signed up for. (Princess dashboard and Princess charms not photographed but may have been received!)

Please do watch the above video as you can see all the products much more clearly and appreciate them better and of course you can learn more about the products and what to do with them.

I hope you like it, it was a lot of hard work sourcing a collection and putting it all together! At the time of writing I have some excess boxes available to purchase as a whole as well as some individual items so check out my online shop for those. I also have some of the dashoards and planner charms available to purchase in my Etsy Shop.

See you next month for July’s box. Remember if you would like to order a subscription or a one off box and you would like that box to be the July one you can order up to and on 30th June from: www.mrsbrimbles.co.uk/shop

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