Gift Guides are starting to pop-up for the pen community. I feel like we go from planner season announcements to Fountain Pen Day to gift guides to best-of’s and finally year end wrap-ups. Its the pen community version of traditions, right? Then we’ll start all over again with plans for the upcoming year. It’s the pen seasonal cycle!
If you missed Link Love last week, Brad invited me to participate in our annual Gift Guide tradition on the Pen Addict podcast.
Let me know in the comments if I missed any pen community seasonal milestones. Start of pen show season?
Gift Guides:
- Pen Boutique Holiday Gift Guide (via Pen Boutique Blog)
- The Pen Addict Podcast, Episode 693: Get ‘em Ana – Holiday Gift Guide 2025 (via The Pen Addict)
Pens:
- POV: You have a Diplomat Viper fountain pen and also possibly ball cancer (via Extra Fine Writing)
- My writing tools. Home version (via José Naranja)
- Recent Pen Day: Kakimori Glass Nib and Mini Holder, Namisu Ixion Pocket (via CJs Wunderkammer)
- New Pocket Pen…the Esterbrook Niblet (via Figboot on Pens YouTube)
Ink:
- The Wet Pen Western Trillium Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Ink Review #2884: Papier Plume Burgundy (via Mountain of Ink)
- Ink Review #2882: Ferris Wheel Press Bluebell Brushstrokes (via Mountain of Ink)
- Van Dieman’s Zucchini (via Inkcredible Colours)
Planners, Notebooks & Paper:
- Choosing my 2026 Planner (via Dime Novel Raven)
- My Transition to Personal Size – Choice of Organiser (via Philofaxy)
- The Planner Time Capsule Hack: A Wild Idea for Clearing Mental Clutter (via Planner Fun)
Art & Creativity:
- Better Than Shopping: Gab & Grab! (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Love, Loss, and What I Knit (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- Love the process (via José Naranja)
Other Interesting Things:
- My NaNoWriMo experience, November 2025. (via Fountain pen blog)
- Resurrected Journals (via Fountain Pen Chronicles and More)
- Asvine/Hongdian Nib (An Inkophile’s Blog)
- Wild Things at the Tokyo Pen Show 2025 (via InkyRocks on YouTube)
- Has judging a book by its cover gone too far? (via It’s Nice That)
- New campaign takes aim at Meta after billboard calling out Instagram is blocked by media buyers (via Creative Boom)
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