Exclusive Pen Show inks and other goodies are the carrot to make us all feel massive massive amounts of FOMO but I decided to make sure someone in our community doesn’t suffer from FOMO by giving away a brand new bottle of the Sailor 2023 Pen Show Exclusive Ink. Its a bright, vivid orange to…
The California Pen Show, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, was a great first show for the new group of organizers. I thought we’d share some photos and a more in-depth recap for our first show of the year. I know the California Pen Show was not the first show of the calendar year but…
You may remember a long post on a new line of ink from Sailor – the Yurameku inks. While I have no official confirmation on it, I believe this is the place Sailor is tucking away some of their more experimental inks that do not clearly fit in any current ink lines. A huge thank you…
Tomorrow is February 1st and that signals the return of International Correspondence Writing Month (InCoWriMo), otherwise known as a great excuse for us to use our pretty stationery and fountain pens (and ink!) to write to all our nearest and dearest. Not only that, but it is the tenth anniversary of InCoWriMo! Obviously InCoWriMo takes…
Until recently, the pen show season is something that I have come to see as consistent, almost “set in stone”. For me, the first pen show of the year is Philadelphia and my last pen show is Chicago. The summer is a blur of pen shows too close together. But the pen show circuit does…
Dip pens are priceless when it comes to swatching inks, enabling the user to quickly and completely clean the nib between ink changes. There’s no other way to test several inks in a row. A great place to participate in such serial-ink-swatching is at pen meet-ups, either local or at more distant pen shows. Below…
Happy New Year! Moving into 2023, as a stationery nerd, I use Dead Week and the first few weeks of the new year to start fresh with new planners, new journals and new plans for the coming year. The last few years have been a challenge for everyone. Family losses, illness, job changes and all…
