I met the creative team behind Wonderland 222 while I was in Portland this summer and was absolutely delighted to be able to put faces to this amazing product line. Wonderland 222 is best known for their Tomoe River-based planners — simple, minimal planners in loads of formats. While talking with Liisa, I discovered that…
When Ana goes to pen shows, we all get gifts. Why should the Baltimore show be any different? Ana has recovered from her traveling and we got together for coffee this past weekend. She presented me with two boxes, courtesy of Luxury Brands USA, holding two of the new BENU Pixie Fountain Pens. You know…
Thanks to everyone who played along and shared their most recent pen show, pen meet-up or pen shopping trip. I got to virtually shop with all of your and it was a blast. The winner of our Virtual Chicago Stationery Fest Kit is: Cograts, DeeOrbra, I have emailed you directly so check your email today…
I picked up extra goodies from the Chicago Stationery Fest to share with one lucky reader. Paper & Pencil Canvas Mini Tote (AKA “a house purse” purchased at Paper & Pencil) Endless Recorder STEALTH “Chicago” Notebook (donated by Retro51) Pouch Magazine (purchased at Paper & Pencil) Chicag-o-ring Special Edition Col-o-ring Ink Swatching Book (donated by…
The Chicago Planner Conference was a bounty of swag. So much so that I’d like to give TWO readers the chance to relive the conference vicariously through a swag bag. I have sorted through all the swag and did my best to evenly distribute it all between two totes: a Chicago Planner Conference 2024 grey…
We have two beautiful notebooks to giveaway today from Galen Leather. They have created the new 1870 Marbled A5 Notebooks ($45 each) in two colors — Ocean Waves and Molten Lava — which feature fountain pen-friendly 52gsm Tomoe River paper. The notebooks have 200 sheets between their hand-bound covers and include grid and lined guide…
Laban is Taiwanese-based pen company that I’ve had a lot of experience with using so I was quite excited to get a chance to test one of their fountain pens. The Laban Rosa Fountain Pen ($140) in Lilac with the Medium nib is an acrylic resin pen with gold tone hardware. The Rosa line includes…
