This week is full of delightful tidbits from across the pen community. There is a link to an illustrated Pen Zine, Dominant Industry made custom ink colors for Wonder Pens in colors inspired by the shop cats (of course), Crónicas Estilográficas writes about the Kanji nib for the Japanese Lamy and A Fleeting Ripple lists…
I can’t believe, in over 12 years of blogging about fountain pens, I’ve never reviewed a Platinum Plaisir. Thanks to Gentleman Stationer for sending over this extra special Platinum Plaisir Aura 2022 Special Edition ($41 available in 3 colors). This model of the Plaisir is a little bit fancier than the standard model (approx. $18)…
In honor of Fountain Pen Day, we have a not one but FIVE sets of products to giveaway. Walk Over Vistula is a deep blue ink with sheen and Sheen Machine lives up to its name. It’s a deeper blue with a very visible reddish/purple sheen. KWZ Inks have a distinctive vanilla-ish smell that folks…
I really had two Links of the Week this week but they did not relate to each other at all so one will provide some visual interest and the other… well, probably will provide some damage to your wallet. First, is this amazing glitch-style graphic poster for a Japanese crime drama (via Spoon & Tamago).…
Our final planner category is all-in-one planners (see our previous posts on Ringbound, Discbound, and Elastic Bound)– these are bound books with hardcover, softcover or spiral binding that feature some combination of calendars and other features for planning. This is probably the hardest category of planners to comprehensively discuss. There are literally hundreds of options…
I had a difficult time choosing what of the many ideas floating in my head I should use as my Link Love intro this week. So, I decided to just choose more than one. First, Joe at Gentleman Stationer and I seem to be on the same wavelength right now. I have been expanding on…
Following our previous posts about Ring-Bound Planner Systems and Discbound Planner Systems its time to tackle the “elastic planner” AKA the Traveler’s Notebook (TN) or, when not made by the Traveler’s Notebook Company, the “Fauxdori”. The name Fauxdori arose several years ago when Traveler’s Notebook was still under the Midori branding and was refer to…
