Paw Prints — pencils

  From time to time, Clare calls me and says -  "Theeeeese are niiiiiiiiice..." This week, she has been swept off her feet by Danish invaders. Take this box below - The Artists Set. Now, that's cool.  Or how about the featured picture? Viking X Caran d'Ache. A fabulous mechanical pencil disguised as a yellow school pencil. Naturally, we have many of the Vikings in singles too. Oh - and check out the ruler. The stocktake is complete, a huge thank you to Molly, who dealt with all the pencils while the adults mumbled and grumbled.   Have a fantastic...

I love a good pencil, me. Emphasis is on good though. Scratchy pencils - you know, those ones that seem to have a grain of sand in them as you write - well, they can take a running jump, frankly. But a pencil that writes smoothly, has a decent darkness to the line yet holds its point over many lines of writing...? Well, that's every pencil-lover's dream, isn't it?

Let me give you a flavour of 9 different pencils and what they're good for. Some of them are definitely writing pencils. Some of them are softer and at a push, could be used for sketching or doodling.