By Jessica Coles I love purple inks. Dark purple, light purple, purples that lean red and purples that lean blue. All purple inks find a home with me. I think I seek out purple inks because, as a child, there were NO purple inks. My rainbow of ink color was restricted to those in a…
(Laura here… mea culpa. Ana asked me to get Link Love ready, and well… I HAD ONE JOB. Without further ado: LINK LOVE!) Out of seemingly nowhere, there are two reviews for the Scribo pen this week, a review for the new Spoke Pen and the Classmate Octane. Also, Gourmet Pens reviews the unusual Parrot…
Review by Laura Cameron Last month I had the chance to attend the Association for Creative Industries’ Creativation conference. Creativation is an industry trade show geared towards creative businesses and includes everything from knitting and needle arts, to cardmaking, stamping, scrapbooking and other papercrafts, to sewing, macrame, craft supply organizing and more! I spent some…
It will probably come as a surprise to discover that, up until recently, I did not own any model of Lamy 2000. While I own many different models of Lamy fountain pens, including the Lamy Scala with a gold nib, I don’t own any of Lamy’s rollerball or ballpoint pens. So, I decided to break…
When I was trying to decide how to best organize this post, I debated planning it and titling it “A Pen Show in 3 Parts.” The first part being the drive to LA, the pen show itself and then the drive home. I drove from Kansas City to Little Rock where I met up with…
Review by Tina Koyama I’ve been aware of Maruman sketchbooks for a while, but I hadn’t tried one, mainly because most formats are too large for my sketching lifestyle. The Zuan series, however, includes a postcard size (about 4-by-6 inches) that seems ideal for urban and travel sketching, so I picked up a pad (50…
Due to weather delays, this is an extremely lengthy Link Love. But I’m home safe and the cats are very happy about that. Some of the highlights are: Draplin Love, actual pencil reviews this week, LA Pen Show recaps, and, oh yeah, the 2019 Pen Addict Live Kickstarter went live. Plus SOOOOO much more. Enjoy!…
