Link Love: Boxing Day Edition

Wishing you all a restful Boxing Day and a big dose of links!

Wrap Ups & Reflections:

• Top 5 Fountain Pens of 2024 (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
• Project Enjoy Collection 2024 Wrap-Up (via Dime Novel Raven)
• My End of Year Process (via Bullet Journal)
• 2024 Year-End Review: My Five Most-Used Pens of 2024 (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Making It: 2025 Craftolutions! (via Modern Daily Knitting)

Ink:

• Ink Review #2683: Diamine Fruit Cocktail (via Mountain of Ink)
• Diamine Weeping Willow – inkxplorations (via inkxpired)
• ink review : Diamine Weeping Willow (via inkxplorations)
• Ink Review #2685: Diamine Cosmic Glow (via Mountain of Ink)
• Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Chartist Inks (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• 24 Days of Dupes 2024 – Week 3 (via Rachel’s Reflections)
• Diamine Inkvent Days 12 – 18 (via CJ’s Wunderkammer)
• Inkvent and Colorvent 2024: Recapping Days 11-20 (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Notebooks & Paper:

• A perfectionist’s guide to creating bullet journal spreads (via All About Planners)
• Gifts for a Filofax user? (via Philofaxy)
• Techo Kaigi and Finding Something New (via Casual Crossings)
• I tested Hobonichi’s UPDATED 2025 techo (with ‘adjusted ink absorbency’) (via fudefan)

Art & Creativity:

• Doodling With Fountain Pens: Radiate Pattern (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Thousands of Josiah Wedgwood’s Glazed Ceramic Samples Paved the Way for 18th-Century Ingenuity (via Colossal)
• Impressive Posters Illustrated by Dudley Hardy in the Late 19th Century (via Design You Trust)
• Drawing from Life Informs the Imagination (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)

Other Interesting Things:

• Review: Gritin LED Rechargeable Book Light (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Mail Art Pioneer Anna Banana Dies at 84 (via Hyperallergic)
• Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book (via Olive Octopus)
• Makeup Stationery Tag (via Rachel’s Reflections)

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