It’s happening again! Brad and Myke are getting the gang back together for a live recording of The Pen Addict podcast in Atlanta at the pen show in April and they are letting me tag along again. Help support our efforts to be the nerdiest of all pen nerds and get a cool notebook, and…
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Ink Review: Diamine Meadow
I was recently reminded about Diamine Meadow (available in 2ml samples for $1.25 and 80ml bottles for $14.95) 30ml bottles for $7.50 and from my Secret Society of Enablers (you know who you are!). I’m lucky I know so many people who share my love of green. I had a sample of it in my…
Link Love: Pen Horoscopes & Faber-Castell Love
Post of The Week: Pen Horoscopes (via That One Pen) This is absolutely amusing but at present my horoscope options were not listed: either pencils case with dozens of pens and pencils OR micro-point felt-tip. What would my horoscope be? Pens: TWSBI ECO Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Staedtler Triplus Roller, Fineliner and Color Pens…
Books For The Desk Set: Letter Writing & Epistolary Books for InCoWriMo/LetterMo
Paris Letters ($5.25 for Kindle, $11.87 for paperback) by Janice MacLeod Paris Letters is a travelogue/memoir with a bit of self-help thrown in for good measure. The book was pulled together from the author’s personal journals, blog and letters to become this short book about her journey from a disappointed 30-something copywriter to an expat living…
InCoWriMo Stationery Package Set: Bamboo Green
I swore to myself this year I would skip InCoWriMo/LetterMo because I can get so overwhelmed with too many letters and not enough time. However, everywhere I turn this year, all signs are pointing to a February full of letter-writing. I cannot diverge from the path, not when people are putting all these beautiful things on…
Pen Review: Sakura Pigma Professional Brush Pens
The Sakura Pigma Professional Brush Pens, available in SB, MB and BB, were something I discovered in a very roundabout way. I was reading Lisa Condon’s blog again and she was talking about more of the tools she liked yo use. I started clicking on links and next thing I knew, voila! I had these…
Ink Review: Waterman Tender Purple
Well, hello Royal Purple! Waterman Tender Purple is a very regal violet purple indeed. Its bright, vivid and a perfect remedy for the bleak January days we’ve been facing here in the Midwest recently. I tested this ink out in my Karas Kustom INK with a fine nib and was able to get some shading and…