Here in the US, this weekend is Fourth of July weekend when folks go to the beach, the lake, the pool or if you’re me, you pop open a cold drink and stick your feet in the kiddie pool in the backyard. How ever you choose to celebrate the joys of summer, I hope you get to embrace it with both hands (drink in one, pen in the other!)
Pens:
- The Best Ballpoint Pens (via JetPens)
- Pelikan Pelikano Magic Ocean Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
Ink:
- Ink Dupes #16: Sailor, Platinum, and Pilot (via Rachel’s Reflections)
- Van Dieman’s Devil Black (via Inkcredible Colours)
- Ink Review #2778: KWZ Meet Me In St. Louis 2025-314 Blues (via Mountain of Ink)
- Ink Omakase: June 2025 (via Inkcredible Colours)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Review: Filofax Refillable Notebook (via Inky Imaginings)
- Emerald Filofax Finsbury – by Anita (via Philofaxy)
- Top Back-To-School Spreads for your Bullet Journal (via Archer and Olive)
- Turn Your Journal into a Zine (via Archer and Olive)
- Kyoei Orions Writing Mats Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Comparing Different Apica Paper Weights (via Fountain Pen Love)
- GTD x BuJo Part II: Tactics (via Bullet Journal)
Art & Creativity:
- Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake (via Hyperallergic)
- SPECIAL FEATURE: Paint More with Less Stress: My 3-Step Painting Method for World Watercolor Month (via Doodlewash)
- Visit to an Artichoke Patch (via Apple-Pine)
- Pocket Palette Travel Set by Etchr Lab & Stephanie Law (review) (via Parka Blogs)
- The rise of the creative generalist: why being ‘good at lots of things’ is becoming a superpower (via Creative Boom)
- Fairy Lights and Late Nights (via Abigail Halpin)
Other Interesting Things:
- USPS To Celebrate 250 Years of Service (via USPS Newsroom)
- 12 Travel Accessories for Stress-Free Adventures (via Carryology)
- 2025 Mid-Year Check-In (via Rachel’s Reflections)
- Maybe It’s Not Coming Back (via Line Variation)
- St Louis Pen Show 2025 (via A Gathering of Curiosities)
- Everyday carry: Lochby Sidekick and Fisher Vortex Space Pen (via Urban Adventure League)
- Photos by Charly Broyez and Laurent Kronental Celebrate Architecture Ahead of Its Time (via Colossal)
- Hear the Otherworldly ‘Choir’ of Singing Beechwood Dolls by Teenage Engineering (via Colossal)
- Meet the Team Restoring the Coral Reefs in Cozumel, Mexico (via My Modern Met)
- Greece’s Euro Coin Design Is a Beautiful Ode to Its History (via My Modern Met)
- Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models (via Colossal)
- Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines (via Austin Kleon)
- POV: Leaving a big city? Get yourself a hyperlocal social network (via It’s Nice That)
- Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer (via Kottke.org)
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