Link Love: Have Notebook, Will Traveler?

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Post of the Week:

• Podcast: The Allusionist Episode 21: Eponyms I: The Ballad of Bic and Biro

Pens:

• Uni-ball Signo DX Hello Kitty Gel Pens (via From The Pen Cup)
• Sailor Pro Gear Imperial Black (via Alt.Haven)
• Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen – Stainless Steel (via Clicky Post)
• Pelikan M205 Amethyst Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict)
• Conway-Stewart Winston Fountain Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!)
• Video: Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Maxi (via Purl Bug)
• Video: Pilot Prera (via The Pen Habit)
• Pilot Twilight Vanishing Point (2015 Limited Edition) (via No Pen Intended)
• First Look: Pen Type-B from CW&T (via Pen Addict)

Ink:

• Noodler’s Revolution Blue (via Gourmet Pens)
• J. Herbin 1670 Bleu Ocean (via Ed Jelley)
• J.Herbin 1670 Emerald Of Chivor (via The Pencilcase Blog)
• Diamine Blue Lighting (via Gorgeous.Ink)

Pencils:

• Video: How Faber-Castell Pencils are Made (via Faber-Castell)
• Rotring 600 Pencil (via Gentleman Stationer)
• Mitsu-bishi 9000 HB (via The Finer Point)

Paper & Notebooks:

• If you wanted to ensure it lasted for 150 years – you’d choose paper. (via The Cramped)
• Field Notes Notebook Review (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!)
• Fabriano Journal Notebook (via All Things Stationery)
• Live Laugh Jot PocketJot Fauxdori (via Gourmet Pens)
• Midori Traveler’s Notebook (via Inkophile)
• A more flexible Midori Traveler’s Notebook weekly insert (with Lefty & Righty Notes) (via Philofaxy)

Planners & Organizers:

• Dump Your Smart Phone (For a Planner) (via Giftie Etcetera)
• How to use a planner: a guide for new users (via Quo Vadis Blog)
• Mini Daily Page Insert (printable) (via Planner Fun)
• Happy Planner Review (via Pretty Neat Living)
• DIY- Traveler’s Notebook Index Tabs (via Seaweed Kisses)

Other Interesting Things:

• Lists — Cultural Offering (via The Cramped)
• 5 Tips to Improve Your Writing Slant (via The Postman’s Knock)
• Halloween Mail Art Party (via Letter Writers Alliance)
• Coccoina Adhesive Paste (via Gourmet Pens)
• How to Make DIY Envelope Liners (via The Postman’s Knock)
• How Solitude Can Change Your Brain In Profound Ways (via Fast Company)
• 15 Tips to Improve Your Drawing Skills (via Daisy Yellow)
• 50 Themes to Brighten Up Your Sketchbook (via Sketchbook Skool)
• What Type of Introvert Are You? (via Scientific American)
• Preorder: The Compendium of Creativity (via Uppercase)

This week’s Link Love artwork is a lovely deskscape drawn by Staci Crews Horst in her Midori Traveler’s Notebook. She both showed her favorite tools and drew them in her notebook. Thanks so much to Staci for sharing her work with us! See more of her skatchbook artwork by visiting her Instagram.

Shoutout to Azizah for the drawing articles from her Sunday Reads this week!

Submit your Link Love art: To be the featured artist on an upcoming Link Love, write, draw, photograph, or doodle an original “Link Love” image. It can be lettering, calligraphy, your own interpretation of Link or anything else you think might relate to the weekly list of pen/pencil-centric blog links. Email your submission to me at chair @ wellappointeddesk.com. Please include any link information you’d like in the image credit (your name, Twitter handle, Instagram, blog, etc). Also include any information about inks, tools, paper, etc used in your creation. Please let me know that I have permission to publish your work in Link Love and that the image is your original piece.