Author: PennyWise

Keep the fun in FUNctional with useful and exciting stocking stuffers this year!

Holiday stockings are the perfect opportunity to give your friends gifts they’ll love—and use! At Penny Wise Office Products, we know how difficult it can be to come up with ideas for all your friends and family members, so we teamed up with Zebra Pen and compiled some Zebra products and other fun, practical gift ideas to give your loved ones this holiday season!

Writing utensils are always a sensible gift for all ages. Whether you’re looking for colored pencils for a child, a fun pen for a teen, or something stylish for a hardworking parent or coworker, Zebra Pen has some items that your loved ones would be excited to use and find in their stockings.

Sarasa Gel Retractable Pens
The Sarasa Gel Retractable Pens are just as stylish as they are sophisticated! With its rapid dry ink technology and a variety of colors to choose from, there will be no smears or smudges when your loved one is writing with style. (Pairs perfectly with an At A Glance journal or planner like the one shown here.)

Steel
One of our best-selling lines, the Steel Series offers a rugged yet sleek and highly functional writing experience! Great for using in the office or in a college classroom, the Steel Series offers pens, mechanical pencils, and highlighters perfect for stocking stuffing! (The perfect gift for Dad when paired with a pocket planner!)

Zebrites
These double-ended highlighters are perfect for students and adults looking to get organized! Combining a medium plus fine point tip, these highlighters not only highlight, but are perfect for quick notes while reading– with no bleed through! Choose from five vibrant colors and give the gift of organization this holiday! (Pair with a good paperback book for Mom’s stocking!)

Zensations Colored Pencils
For little hands who like to get creative, Zebra’s Starter Mechanical Colored Pencils are a fun and useful stocking stuffer! These colored pencils are easy for little hands to hold and come in 12 smooth, rich, vibrant colors that blend easily for shading, coloring, or sketching. (Perfect when paired with a coloring book or sketch book!)

Here are some more Functional stocking stuffers for this holiday season.

Children

Teens

Mom

Dad

There are an unlimited amount of fun, useful gifts to put in holiday stockings this year. When you give the gift of Zebra, you give the gift of enlightened writing. Call Penny Wise at 1-800-942-3311 or visit us online at www.penny-wise.com to order yours today.

In a fast paced and busy life, many people opt for a quick email, e-card, or greeting card to express thanks and celebrate life events. These convenient shortcuts to send holiday greetings has made homemade holiday cards become less and less popular.

However, there’s a sense of joy and warmth that comes from giving, as well as receiving a personal, handmade card from someone you love. Making your own holiday cards is a great way to show your deep appreciation for friends and family this holiday season. Isn’t that what the holidays are all about?

Zebra’s Zensations line has some great products to bring out your inner artist while creating your own holiday cards.

Here are some tips to inspire and help you make this holiday season the best one yet!

Craft Paper
Check out the craft paper we carry (our favorite is Astrobrights) and choose from tons of colors or stick to the basic holiday colors: reds, greens, blues, whites, browns, golds, and silvers!

Layering
Layer your craft paper with the edges showing beneath to give your card the look of having a trim or border. Use a piece of patterned paper beneath a solid sheet for a clean and elegant, multi-dimensional look.

Hand Lettering
For deep, rich color and varying line widths, check out Zebra’s Zensations Brush Pens, perfect for hand lettering! For smaller, more detailed fonts, try Zebra’s Sarasa Fineliners for the performance of a fine tip pen but ink lay down of a marker, Fineliners are the perfect tool to write your holiday message! Fineliners are available in 24 colors to make your holiday cards colorful and vibrant.

Stickers
If drawing just isn’t your thing, stickers are a quick and easy way to spruce up your holiday card! Stickers with holiday greetings, characters, and more are a simple way to embellish a homemade card.

Simply Stylish
It’s okay to keep the drawings simple and instead, use your thoughts to fill your holiday cards with love! A quick snowman drawing, or Christmas tree doodle could work wonderfully. Go for simple style or go for intricate drawings with Zebra’s Zensations Colored Pencils. These pencils are refillable, and available in 24 rich colors. Talk about the “gift the keeps on giving!”

The most important part of any holiday card is the message behind it. No matter your style or artistic ability, your loved ones are sure to appreciate your handmade cards.

What’s your favorite food to enjoy during the holidays? Is it turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes? Sugar cookies? Let us know and you could WIN your own Quick Fit Binder to make your own personalized Recipe Collection.

If you are like me, the holiday memories are surrounded by FOOD! Delicious, once a year delicacies that feed your memories as well as your stomach. Customize your families’ recipes in a QuickFits® binder and protect those treasured handwritten cards with our color-bar EasyFits® sheet protectors. Archival protection for all your delicious memories!

Round ring or D-ring
Available in sizes: 1-5″
Fits up to 950 pages!

The holiday season is just around the corner. Are you excited or are you dreading it? Either way, we’re here to help!
Throughout the month, we will be sharing some quick, easy ways to take the stress out of your busy holiday season, and a few simple steps you can take now to enjoy the season more.

Start preparing early and reward yourself along the way.

Get a jump on the season, by preparing your gift wrapping station ahead of time, with a supply of gift wrap, bows, gift tags, 3M Scotch Tape, Ink Pens, and these handy Westcott products:

The Westcott 8” Titanium Non-Stick Scissors ( #14849) glide smoothly through gift wrapping paper to make wrapping all your gifts a pleasurable experience. These scissors even cut through adhesive tape with no sticky residue.
And, who among us hasn’t gotten frustrated trying to open holiday decorations, batteries, toys and other gadgets sealed in thick, seemingly impossible to open, impenetrable plastic? (Trust us, it’s even worse when your three year old is having a melt down because you can’t open their toy – we’ve been there). Westcott to the rescue. We recommend their 8” Carbotitanium Scissors (#16447) for effortless cutting through thick plastic or other hard-to-open material.

Best of all, you can reap all the benefits of planning ahead. Westcott is offering a $15 Gourmet Coffee Gift Card to treat yourself – or a friend, when you order $75 of qualifying Westcott Products.
So order Westcott Cutting Products for yourself or as a gift, and then kick back with a relaxing cup of coffee, and cross “wrapping gifts” off your holiday To-Do list.
Stay tuned – more helpful holiday tips to come.

Saying goodbye to the beach and heading Back to School is tough!
BIC makes it a little easier with this handy beach cooler, filled with over $200 in BIC Samples.
This durable beach cooler is packed with the “must have” Back to School items your little scholars need to succeed. It’s also got lots of cool BIC items you will want to save for yourself!
What’s your favorite BIC product? Let us know and you’ll be entered to win the BIC Cooler Raffle. Enter now! Three Lucky Winners will be selected.
Drawing takes place on August 28th.

Here are some of our FAVORITE BIC items included in the Contest:

Office products make us happy, but when office products meet fashion, we get really excited!

Our team is thrilled to introduce you to the stunning new collection of 2018 Planners by At-A-Glance.

With gorgeous calendars and planners like these, you will be inspired to get organized and stay that way all year long. Whatever your style, At-A-Glance has you covered.

The new Justick offers so many use:
• Classic, formal designs
• Stylish, Expressive designs
• Boho Chic designs

Planners and journals come in both hardcover and flexible cover styles.

Calendars are available in Weekly, Monthly or Weekly/Monthly Combo styles.

Available Now! Order your favorite calendars and planners before they sell out.

Want to WIN one? Of course you do! Enter now to WIN your favorite At-A-Glance Planner or Calendar:

Simply comment here and on our Facebook page (link to Penny Wise Facebook page for Penny Wise blog and link to Jacobs Gardner Facebook page for Jacobs Gardner blog) and let us know which of these beautiful calendars and planners make your heart race, and you will be entered in our Rafflecopter Contest to win the planner of your choice. Like our Facebook site and share with a friend to earn bonus entries. Drawing to be held on September 1st, 2017.

We are always looking for the next great pen and this week we found it! Check out the bright, bold colors of Schneider Pens, Markers and Highlighters. We loved the smooth, smudge-proof Viscoglide technology and vivid, non-fade colors, but we were blown away by these handy storage caddies! Pens stand upright or hang on a wall or cubicle. Very handy, right? Enter to win your own, just by telling us how you would use them!

Simply place business cards, reminders, photos, etc. onto your Justick desktop, and, as if by magic – they just stick!

One lucky reader of our blog will win their own Justick Display Board this week!

It could be YOU! Watch this short video and tell us what you like best about the Justick and you’ll be entered for a chance to win in our random drawing on Friday, July 7th.

Introducing Justick by Smead – The Ultimate Desktop Organization Tool

NO pins, tape, glue or magnets… just science!

The new Justick offers so many use:
• Desk Organizer
• Photo Display
• Copy Holder

Enter to win yours today, or order now: www.penny-wise.com

It takes big dreams to become the kind of gymnast Gabby Douglas is. You don’t just stumble onto that kind of success; you have to make a plan. For Gabby, writing it down and visualizing what she wants to achieve is the way she makes her dreams a reality. By using tools from Post-it® Brand to make a goal board, she can keep her dreams right in front of her and stay inspired every single day.
Here’s how to make your own goal board.

A busy schedule seems to be a fact of life, no matter who you are. Between studying, extra-curriculars, and social events, it’s hard to keep track of everything that’s going on. But with tools from Post-it® Brand and the determination to make your mark on the world, you can handle it all — and more.