Feels like just yesterday that I unpacked from the California Pen Show and tomorrow I hop on a plane and head to Baltimore for the next show on the jam-packed pen show calendar. If you are going to be at the show, please come by and say hello to me and Jesi. We will be…
I can’t believe March is just around the corner! Since I will be in Baltimore for the Pen Show on March 1, I spent Sunday reviewing my planning/journal set-up and deciding what I want to do for the month of March. But first, let’s review a few pages of my February planning/journaling. I enjoyed my…
Another pen show is now in the past – the California/LA pen show. Last week I joined the Dromgooles and Ana “Well-Appointed Desk” Reinert for several days in LA surrounded by pens, ink, paper, and an amazing group of people. However, California wasn’t as sunny as I thought it would be… Inside the hotel, however,…
(Re-entry after a pen show weekend is tough. You’ve got the Pen Show weekend hangover and you don’t know what day it is. All that is to say, apologies your Link Love is a day late! XOXO) After my post last week about the thicker paper journals, there were a lot questions and curiosity about…
On Sunday night over dinner, we were talking about how, prior to actually attending pen shows, we’d heard people say, “I go to pen shows for the people.” As an introvert, I never quite believed it until I started attending shows. The California Pen Show is definitely a pen show all about the people. As…
If you’ve been into stationery for awhile, you start talking about paper in gsm. Most folks learned about gsm from Tomoe River and it’s paper weight is a light, delicate 52gsm and 68gsm respectively. Non-Tomoe River paper weights that are suitable for fountain pens or making art are often 80gsm or 100gsm. I stumbled across…
In my commitment to being a regular journaler, I have been adding some markers to my collection that will fill in gaps in my color ranges for my journal headers. I got the Tombow Dual Brush Pen Cottage Collection (10 Pen Set for $27) because it looked like a good opportunity to add colors I…
