Do you have any colors you dislike? If I’m being 100% honest I’ve never been much of a yellow fan. Sure it’s sunny and bright and happy, but somehow I just never cared for it much. In recent years I’ve come to appreciate a good honey or mustard, but they’re never my first choice. This…
I had a birthday a few weeks back, and a bestie who is into pens with me sent me a fun gift, a Sailor x Mizutama Profit Junior Limited Edition Fountain Pen. I had never heard of this pen before, but I’m always game for a Sailor! This particular limited edition collaboration is between Sailor…
A few weeks ago I was super excited to order Inkdependence’s newest collaborative inks. Mike teamed up with Diamine to create Never Trust a Bivalve and Trust a Bivalve ($8-14 for 30mL) featuring wonderful label art from Tom of Sugarturtle Studio. These two new inks are lots of fun, but I was a good girl…
Have you noticed that your fountain pen tastes change over time? Since I started collecting fountain pens, I felt like I mostly gravitated towards finer nibs. Those are my dad’s favorite (he’s been a fountain pen user since I was a kid) and I know Ana likes them fine and extra fine. And to be…
I’m sure many of you are kind of over my looking for brown inks that match this year’s Pantone color. But today I have an ink that was specifically designed to match it! Endless Alchemy has just debuted Mocha Mousse Delight (45mL for $20), an ink designed around the color of the year. And it…
Recently a group of us in the Well-Appointed Desk Patreon decided to read The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen (available on Amazon or in the Well-Appointed Desk Bookshop.org store). While the book starts with a fun store about how the modern-day Moleskin notebooks came to be, it delves into the…
Are you ready for my next installment in brown inks? Ana was a super pal and brought me a few new ones from the Baltimore Pen Show! Today’s ink is 3 Oysters Caramel Macchiato (38mL for $16), and I have to say it reminds me perfectly of the way they drizzle the caramel into the…
