Review by Tina Koyama I have been known to look askance at and even mildly mock packaging that seems gratuitously fancy. And yet I’m the first to admit that I bought the entire original nine-volume (90-pencil) slipcased set of Tombow Irojiten Color Dictionary colored pencils for packaging alone. With most colored pencils, I like to…
It feels very topsy-turvy this week. The pencil links are sharpeners and after months of neglect, Kaweco is in our headlines. I have heard a story about one of Einstein’s famous fountain pens and it’s not any of the ones listed on the story below. Diamine release ink inspired by Les Paul guitars and the…
The Birmingham Pen Company’s December Pen Parcel featured brighter-than-usual colors for a company known for dark, moody ink colors. When rumors went out that the December kit would include brighter colors, I was expecting BRIGHTER colors but, I guess, for Birmingham, this was bright.What surprises me is that the pens that they make are often…
There was a knitting podcast (the first-ish knitting podcast) called Cast On, and at the end of it, the host would always close by saying, “If you’re cold, put on a sweater…” In the cold month of January, all I really want to do is knit big, cozy sweaters, so it seemed like just the…
With the start of a new year, there are lots of notebook reviews and there continue to be recaps for 2018 and plans for the new year. There’s also some sad news like the end of another paper edition of a magazine — Glamour. While you may not have ever read this particular magazine, the…
Review by Tina Koyama A few months ago I compared three gel pens that were known to have “dry” inks. My goal then was to find one that might help this lefty reduce the smudging and smearing that often occurs while writing. You can read that review to learn that I wasn’t altogether satisfied with…
Wow! I got this post finished and there are so many recaps, round-ups, and other wrap-ups for 2018 plus plans for 2019 that it might take the better part of a week to read them all. Luckily, we have all of 2019 to reminisce about 2018. Year-End Rounds Up and Resolutions: 2018, Penwrapped. (via Leigh…
