You know you’re a pencil nerd when you think to yourself, “How well do black erasers perform?” And then you think, “I’ll test them with all BLACK pencils!” Yep, that’s how I think. So, which erasers did I put into my black eraser head-to-head? The classic Papermate Black Pearl (2-pack for $2.39), the Uni Boxy…
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Fashionable Friday: Planet Comic-Con Edition
This weekend is the annual Kansas City Planet Comicon and I’m so excited (yet again). So, this week’s “Fashionable Friday” is geek-centric. Apologies to the liberties I took with the color names. But it did make me think, “Why isn’t anyone doing any geek-themed ink colors?” This is a niche that NEEDS to be filled.…
RELEASED: Two Rivers Field Notes COLORS Edition
Field Notes – ‘Two Rivers’ Edition – COLORS Spring 2015 from Coudal Partners on Vimeo. Its been over 24 hours since Field Notes unveiled the video and order page for the “Two Rivers” Spring 2015 COLORS edition so you’ve probably already watched all the videos and placed your order. But if not, I thought I’d…
Ink Review: Diamine 150 Years 1864 Blue Black
The Diamine 150 years inks were on my inky radar as soon as I heard about them. Rare, historical or limited edition inks always set my fingers alight on the keyboard over the “buy it now” button. There are eight colors in this collection, each bottle is a pie-shaped wedge that holds 40ml of ink…
Link Love: Molly Ringwald Writes Letters
Post of the Week: Molly Ringwald and Stoya Bring Back the Lost Art of Letter Writing (via Elle) Pens: Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with Music Nib (via Gourmet Pens) Pilot Coleto (via The Finer Point) Video: OMAS Ogiva Celluloide (via Pen Habit) Pocket Pen Countdown – Top 5 (via Pen Pursuit) Retro 51 Hex-o-Matic Ballpoint…
Ink Review: Kaweco Royal Blue
When you live in Kansas City, Royal Blue has a very distinct connotation. Very baseball. But lucky for Kaweco, their Royal Blue ink is really spot-on for the local interpretation for the color. Kaweco Royal Blue, in writing, reminds me of a lot of those vintage “washable blue” inks like the old Sheaffer Skrip ink.…
Dux Varibel Brass Sharpener with Leather Case
I was very excited to find CW Pencil Enterprises and to see that they stocked the Dux Varibel brass sharpener in the leather case ($22). It can be dialed in to three different sharpnesses depending on the type of lead. The #1 position is for soft pencils and colored pencils, #2 is used for standard…