Baron Fig has become a product releasing machine. Metamorphosis ($20 for individual purchase or $74 per year for quarterly subscription) is the second release in 2017 in the subscription series for the Confidant. This time, they are making fewer waves than they did with the Askew, which ruffled quite a few feathers. The Metamorphosis treads more…
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Atlanta Pen Show Recap and Looking Forward to Chicago
It’s taken me almost a week to recover from the Atlanta Pen Show. I was so busy working behind the Vanness Pens table, I forgot to take photos but luckily, everyone else took tons. During the day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I sold ink, pens and paper with Lisa Vanness and Christa at the Vanness Pen table…
Fashionable Friday: Cocktail Hour
First, three tips from the Waldorf Astoria Bar Manager, Frank Caiafa, compliments of Bon Appetit. Rieger’s Midwestern Dry Gin (via J.Rieger & Co) PIUMA Minimal Fountain Pen in Titanium $90 (via Ensso) “Gitter & Be Gay” Polish $15 (via 1898 House) Pelikan Souverän M800 fountain pen Renaissance, special edition € 490 (€ 404,96 Outside EU)…
Notebook Comparisons: Dot Grid Showdown
I finally have the great triumvirate of dot grid notebooks at hand to do a side-by-side comparison: the much-loved Leuchtturm 1917 A5, the Rhodia and the Baron Fig. While the editions aren’t entirely identical, they are awfully close and the paper is all dot grid and each brand’s “flagship” size. The Rhodia is in the…
Link Love: Atlanta Pen Show & Hippo Purple
Post of the Week: Of course, I couldn’t resist making the post of the week the live episode of the Pen Addict podcast recorded live in front of studio audience in Atlanta with special guests Vito from Story Supply and Jonathan from Carolina Pen Company. And of course, I got to sit in the third…
Pencil Review: Viarco Vintage Collection Box Set
I’d been putting it off for sometime but I couldn’t wait any longer when I realized there was only one Viarco Vintage Collection box set left on the CW Pencil Enterprise web site left. I had to get it. Viarco is a small pencil manufacturer in Portugal that is still producing pencils and has been…
Pencil Review: Baron Fig Snakes & Ladders
Review by Tina Koyama When Baron Fig’s standard edition Archer pencil came out a while back, I thought it was fine as far as writing pencils go – attractive matte finish, lightweight, not smeary – but somewhat blah in appearance. As a Pacific Northwest resident who sees gray skies much of the year, I generally…