Fountain Pen Day is a huge celebration of the pen and stationery community and this year is no different. Not only do we want to offer you great deals but we also want to remind you to shop at all the other small businesses participating in the 2025 Fountain Pen Day events, sales and deals.…
First, Happy Halloween!!! May your day be filled with pumpkins, costumes and all the thrills and chills you can handle. I’m a fan of cute spooky, not scary spooky so I’m more Hello Kitty in a ghost costume than horror films. But I will be eating my weight in candy and drinking as much pumpkin…
Thanks to everyone who entered our giveaway for the Wonderland 222 B6 notebook. It looks like our commenting system is working again and ready for prime time! Our winner is: I have reached out via email to our winner. More giveaways will be happening soon so stayed tuned!
The chicken knitting business is winding down, so I’m seeing lots more interesting colored chickens with bits and bobs of leftovers. This week’s chicken is PINK with a smattering of other dusty tones. The inks I found that sort of went along with the theme are: Sailor Jentle Sakura Mori PenBBS #224 Tolstoy Diamine Twlight…
Last week I decided to take on the challenge to use only “starter pens” for a week. I picked out all the Platinum Preppy pens I have and a franken-Pilot Prera. I tried to follow a similar process to Derek’s original challenge but had to modify it a little bit to make the challenge work…
We have just listed our new zine: Gamify Your Life Players Handbook (2nd Edition) ($12 for zine, $20 for kit)– “Make it Fun to Get Sh*t Done”. This zine was created to accompany my workshops of the same name but I’ve packed it full of enough information that I think it is a great jumpstart…
I decided to jump on the bandwagon and answer OliveOctopus’ #12PenPersonQuestions list! 1. If you consider the different ways you can engage with pens and stationery—as a user, a collector, a hobbyist, a creator, a maker, a vendor—which roles fit best and what percentage of 100% would you assign to each? Are you happy with…
