I haven’t done a home decor book review yet but I do have quite the pile of books. I love home decor books and they often have great inspiration for revamping your office, home office or studio/work area. Not to mention that we paper enthusiasts tend to book enthusiasts too so maybe some of these…
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Product Review: ArtSnacks July 2017 Subscription Box
Review by Tina Koyama If I had to choose two of my favorite types of sketching materials, I’d have to say brush pens and colored pencils. You can imagine my thrill when I opened the July ArtSnacks box and found a Pentel Duopoint Flex Double-Ended Brush Pen and two Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle colored pencils!…
Ink Review: DeAtramentis Pearlescent Inks
There’s only one way to truly show off shimmer/sparkle/pearlescent inks and that’s with video. I apologize for the 25-minute long video but its not my fault that deAtramentis decided to release 40 colors in their new line of Pearlescent inks. There’s ten different colors of ink on four different sparkle/pearlescent bases. The ten colors are…
Link Love: Aurora Duo Carts & Pencil Lady Panic! Better have a G&T.
Post of the Week: Confessions of a Pencil Lady: Fear of Failure (via C.W. Pencil Enterprise Blog) Pens: Aurora Duo Cart Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Vintage nibs in modern pens (via Leigh Reyes: My Life as a Verb) Introducing the Special Edition Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz Pen (via Pen Chalet Blog) Introducing my Guide…
Fashionable Friday: Summer Lovin’
Summer makes me crave lemonade, turquoise blues and leafy palm greens whether I am land-locked or on the coast. Hope you are someplace enjoying a sunny beach, a cocktail and a sea breeze! Lemons Print A3 $21 (via Watersounds on Etsy) Robert Oster Bondi Blue Fountain Pen Ink (50ml bottle) $18 (via Federalist Pens) Beach…
Pencil Review: Pencil Subscriptions June 2017
June was the month for quarterly pencil subscriptions. All three of the major quarterly pencil subscriptions arrived within a couple weeks of each other. The C.W. Pencils Pencil Box #2: Japan Box, the Baron Fig Archer Prismatic and the Palomino Blackwing Editions #73 Lake Tahoe edition all arrived in June 2017. On the surface, they…
One Book July 2017
Last year, I attempted (and mostly succeeded) in participating in the One Book July challenge. Most of the conversation about it occurs over on YouTube and was the brainchild of Carie Harling, MissVickieBee and Rhomany’s Realm (all video links). If you have stalled out in your daily journaling, planning, drawing, writing or just felt like you…