Thanks to Rickshaw Bags, I’m awash in fluorescent pink pen and pencil cases. I already spread the wealth a bit. Laura will be reviewing the Waldo Field Cases in the future. Rickshaw, and Mark Dwight, seem to have warmly embraced the pen community and was even very kind when I fan-girled all over him at…
If you ever wondered exactly why we decided to make the Col-o-ring Ink Testing Books, wonder no longer. This is my personal stash of books, less than a year into the making of them. I’ve divided my books into at least five different groups: Japanese inks, Robert Oster inks, PenBBS, Shimmer inks, European and American…
Well, it’s started. The countdown to February. For most of my readers… you know what that means. LetterMo and InCoWriMo and our annual month of letter writing so the posts on various blogs have already started. If you are not a member of the Letter Writers Alliance yet. Click on one of the links below…
Review by Tina Koyama Last year Moleskine released two sets of pencils as part of its Art Collection – watercolor pencils and graphite drawing pencils. In my review of the watercolor set, I mentioned features that are common to both, such as the unique square barrel, matte black finish and semi-gloss end caps (please read…
Between my husband and I, we have acquired enough Retro 51 pens to require an actual display case for our collection. Luckily, there is a lovely Bamboo Pen Tray ($60) available made especially to hold sixteen of your favorite Retro 51 pens. The plexiglass cover is magnetic so its easy to lift off to remove your…
Review by Tina Koyama As it may have been for many stationery addicts, the Moleskine notebook was my gateway drug. Way back (and I mean way back, like before Facebook, blogs, maybe even the whole Internet), I’d occasionally find Moleskine journals in nicer stationery stores and fondle them lovingly, imagining the possibilities. When I began…
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the Pen Addict Retro 51 Ice-O-Metric ($38) design when it was in production so I had an even longer wait to get one in my hands than most people. I was super excited to see that Brad had decided to support artwork created in the…
