This week saw snow along the Eastern seaboard in the US and this weekend, the weather reports are threatening snow and ice throughout the Midwest and South and Southeast in the US so I was inspired to plan a Snow Day theme for this week’s Fashionable “Weekend”. I picked warm tones inspired by fresh chocolate…
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Link Love: Letter Writing Prep
Pens: Video: Pilot Custom 823 Fountain Pen (via The Pen Habit) Guide to Multifunction Pens (via The Gentleman Stationer) An Ode to Franklin Christoph Model 45’s (via Miss Thundercat/Contemplations of a Kitty) Namisu Nova Ebonite Fountain Pen (via Pencilcase Blog) Pilot Vanishing Point (Capless) Fountain Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) Pelikan Souveran M400 Tortoiseshell Brown…
Review: BigiDesign Ti Arto The Ultimate Refill Friendly Pen
The BigiDesign Ti Arto Pen is touted as the most refill friendly pen and when it was announced on Kickstarter last year, I was all in from the moment they said go. As the queen of refill hacking, the idea of having a pen capable of accepting 200+ refills without having to do any manipulation,…
Review: Marvy LePlume II Brush Markers
Guest review by Tina Koyama Before I got heavily into colored pencils, watercolor brush pens were my coloring medium of choice. It’s hard to resist the huge range of intense, saturated colors many of them come in. Tombow Dual-Brush Pens were my gateway drug, and I managed to acquire quite a few of the line’s…
Giveaway Winner: Write Your Own Adventure Planner 2017
Congratulations to the winner in the Write Your Own Adventure Giveaway. Our random number generator picked: Jenn Dee! Good luck on all your adventures, Jenn, great and small. A wedding in Korea sounds like it will be a blast. And Korean stationery stores will be on your itinerary too, right? I hope everyone gets a…
Fashionable Friday: Happy Hygge
With the cold, (and in my case) snowy days and long, dark nights of winter officially settling in, the Danish concept of Hygge (pronounced “HOO-gah, like a football cheer in a Scandinavian accent” according to the NYTimes) seems a fitting, if slightly odd, topic for Fashionable Friday. However, the concept of Hygge is all about coziness and…
Book Review: Stationery Fever
Stationery Fever: From Paper Clips to Pencils and Everything in Between by John Z. Komurki is a large book reminiscent of a text book in size and format filled with articles about pencils, erasers, pens, notebooks and assorted office and stationery supplies. It is filled with beautiful photography of items, some provided by artful stationery…