Often when I work for Dromgoole’s at a pen show, I will have several people ask for the same ink. Inevitably, an influencer or two will have posted about a particular ink. Sometimes its a video or a TikTok but when I was setting up Link Love, I found out why I had dozens of people asking for Wearinguel Undine— because Brad at the Pen Addict posted the ink in his review for the Nahvalur Original Plus Powder Blue. Of course, we didn’t have any bottles in DC so I had to turn several people away, disappointed.
Normally, I don’t know specifically who posted an now-covetable ink but, this week, I know who you are, Brad Dowdy!!! Thanks for posting an ink without telling me to pack some for the show! (Seriously, though, I am just teasing Brad. He doesn’t realize his reach and influence and how it leaves poor ink-shillers like me empty-handed.)
Pen & Stationery Event Recaps:
- Yoseka Stationery Fest 2026 and Haul (via YouTube)
- Florida Stationery Fest 2026 – First Year! Amazing Turnout! (via YouTube)
- Conquering Stationery Fest 2026 and New York travel bites (via The Penguin Post)
Pens:
- If I Could Only Keep 10 Fountain Pens (via CJs Wunderkammer)
- 5 Pens I’d Purchase If I Started Again (via UK FOUNTAIN PENS)
- The Best Highlighter Pens (via JetPens Blog)
- Pairings Party: Nahvalur Original Plus Powder Blue, Wearingeul Undine (via The Pen Addict)
Ink:
- Waterman Encre Black and Three Pens (via An Inkophile’s Blog)
- If I Could Only Keep 10 Fountain Pen Inks… (via Inky Imaginings)
- InkFlash : Robert Oster Chocolate (via inkxplorations)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Esterbrook Summer of Moomin Collab Collection (via Dime Novel Raven)
- Pre-order the new Flow Diary 2027 (via Flow Magazine)
- William Hannah A5 & A6 Inserts (via Philofaxy)
- The Best Planners for 2026 (via JetPens Blog)
- Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks: A Comprehensive Guide (via JetPens Blog)
- FULL REVEAL of the Archer & Olive 2026 Fall Collection (via Archer and Olive)
- Web Finds – 5 August 2026 (via Travellers Notebook Times)
Art & Creativity:
- Blockx Watercolours full range (via Jane Blundell Artist)
- Is Lightfastness Important? (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
- Radhika Chitalia Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory Capsule (via Colossal)
- Two Recent Publications! (via Apple-Pine)
Book Reviews:
- Review – Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore (via Rachel’s Reflections)
- Children Of Time (via José Naranja)
- Book Review: The Odyssey, Robert Fagles Translation, Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen (via Writing at Large)
Other Interesting Things:
- Losing all your photos, how bad is it? (via Flow Magazine)
- 5 apps to wake up calmly with (via Flow Magazine)
- Remarks by Postmaster General David Steiner at the Aug. 7, 2026, USPS Board of Governors Meeting (via USPS Newsroom)
- Hello, again: The return of the Minolta SR-T 101 (via Urban Adventure League)
- Fine writers to make noise at ‘Whispers of the Nib’ exhibit (via Pen Noob)
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