Just a quick reminder that The Well-Appointed Desk will be at the Arkansas Pen Show this weekend. Just to whet your appetite The Desk will once again have a table with the steadfast and true Skylab Letterpress and will be selling a variety of goods including: Col-o-ring Ink Testing Books Typewriters Letterpress printed paper goods…
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Giveaway Winner: Lamy Aion Fountain Pen
Our handy dandy random number generator did its thing and picked our winner this week. Congrats to the winner of our Lamy Aion fountain pen giveaway: That’s a color Laura would definitely approve. A big thanks to Appelboom for sending the pen to us to review and giveaway! More giveaways soon! Stay tuned!
News: Kickstarter Follow-Up, Retro51 and Lamy
Kickstarter: The Pen Addict RelayCon 2018 Kickstarter has just nine days left and has surpassed its funding goals. So much so that there is money in the budget to take me along on the trip to Toronto and New York as well as Atlanta so I am looking forward to meeting the Canadian contingency this…
LA Pen Show Recap
Laura did her LA Pen Show recap earlier this week and provided the perspective of a first-time pen show attendee. Now its my turn to give my recap. As Laura mentioned, we arrived in LA late on Thursday night and after some struggles trying to acquire an Uber, we switched to Lyft and managed to…
Recap: LA Pen Show
Recap by Laura Cameron This past weekend, I went to my very first pen show, the Los Angeles International Pen Show. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and my dad, who is a fountain pen enthusiast, still lives there. Ana and I decided to make the trip and I got to spend time…
Pen Show: LA or Bust!
Laura and I are headed for the LA Pen Show tomorrow. It’s Laura’s first pen show ever and, for me, I think I’ve actually lost count but I think I’ve finally moved past double digits. We will be at the show for the whole weekend, arriving Thursday night. Laura will be getting the full immersive…
Kickstarter: Pen Community Projects — Current & Concluding
The pen community has been showered in great Kickstarter opportunities lately. We thought we would round up all the best and also follow-up on a few that are currently shipping. Pay It Forward Pay It Forward is the brain child of Oscar Rodriguez and his project to provide free pens, ink and notebooks to children…