Fountain Pen Network

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If you are interested in fountain pens, you may already know about Fountain Pen Network. If not, FPN is a chat forum and shop-and-swap for all sorts of fountain pens. The forums are hugely helpful in learning about different vintage and modern fountain pens and inks. Some of the posts I found helpful today were:

I spend a lot of time leafing through all the ink reviews as well which is a great way to get a comparison of different inks from lots of different users, on a lot of different paper stocks, from everyday writing to people who do spectacular calligraphy.

And not to be forum-ist, another great resource is the FPGeeks forum. Enjoy!

 

 

Link Love: Weekend Edition

I have been collecting more and more great links from other bloggers so I thought I’d double-up this week to get caught up.

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HONDURAS mini blank notebook jotter pack from Etsy . Set of 3 for $15.50 from Khristian A. Howell

Miscellany

Pens and Pencils

Instagram Loves Office Supplies

I have been following lots of office supply geeks and letter writers, artists and designers and I just thought I’d share some of my favorite Instagram photos from the last few weeks.

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Clockwise from top right: Uppercase’s Crafting Supplies, Pencil drawing of Sug-ums by Eabaddeley, Caran D’ache candy colored mechanical pencils found at Greer Chicago by DovBee and Vintage Airmail Envelopes by Scoutshonorco

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Clockwise from top right: Canadian protractor ruler by Rad + Hungry, Paper Delivery by IvanR, Notemaker J. Herbin ink bottles, and Pencil Pal Pencils from LetterLoves(I sent them to her)

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Clockwise from top right: Vitagum erasers captured at Hammerpress by HelloBF, Portuguese wax crayons from Rad + Hungry, Office work space by Pugly Pixel and New-to-her Smith-Corona typewriter from Adamihasegawa

Link Love: Links

This week, I thought I’d share some of the other bloggers who do their own version of Link Love.

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Slide Sideways made this darling cotton pencil print pencil case.

Pens and Pencils:

Shades of Purple from A Penchant for Paper
Shades of Purple from A Penchant for Paper

UPDATE:

I left out Penthusiasm from Tiger Pens!

Letterpress Action Clips

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I cannot believe I stumbled onto these. This is a clear case of “small world” syndrome. A couple years ago, my husband printed these fabulous letterpress disks but I had no idea what they were for. Well, lo and behold, I stumbled upon them on Papercookie as Letterpress Action Clips for your office. They were designed by Meg Mateo Ilasco. Four clips are sold in a jar for $14.95 AU.

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(via Papercookie)