After a long hard journey, the Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15) and Tab Accessory Packs ($5) are finally available in the shop. It took many dies (the metal forms that cut out the shapes), a long wait for paper and long nights collating and bagging but they are finally ready to deliver. Our retailers both in the US…
The Pineider La Grande Bellezza Gemstone Hematite Grey Fountain with extra fine nib ($398) is certainly a mouthful to say and probably not a pen brand most people are familiar with. It’s an Italian brand of fountain pen with a lot of history behind the brand (264 years according to the documentation included in the package)…
For those of us who love to see the penmanship of other people, and famous people being of particular interest, this tidbit of a letter by Georgia O’Keeffe will be quite the coup. A friend stumbled across this and sent it over to me. His notes indicated that it was a photocopy of the original…
Lost & Found: In a strange twist of fate, there were Hobonichis lost in dreams and lost in real life this week. Please help us keep those notebooks you hold dear safe and sound. Put your name and some sort of contact information in the front of your notebook or planner. Put a Tile or…
Laura put together her perspective of the Chicago Pen Show so I guess its my turn. While she can still count how many pen shows she’s been to, I have lost count. While Laura knit on the drive to Chicago, I drove. My beloved Mini needed a goodly amount of service prior to the trip…
While I’ve waffled about how I feel about minimalism and the KonMari Method, my office and desk has reached an all-time level of excess and extreme measures need to be considered. Today is a grey and rainy day and there’s no time like the present to tackle some serious purging. This is the first video…
UPDATE: It’s come to our attention that this formulation of Australian Opal Mauve was mis-mixed. According to Robert Oster, about 1/3 of the bottles formulated reached retailers and were sold as is. The correct color of Australian Opal Mauve is considerably more blue-purple and is what is currently available. The ink color shown in this…
