Giveaway Winner: Lamy Dark Lilac Safari from Fontoplumo

Thanks so much to Fontoplumo for generously offering the Lamy Safari Dark Lilac Limited Edition fountain pen to one of the lucky readers of The Well-Appointed Desk. All the wonderful spring comments, from blooming cherry blossoms, to pollen-covered cars, were fun to read and made me want to see Spring in every single city and…

Giveaway Winner: Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop from Goulet Pens

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop Giveaway generously hosted by Goulet Pens this week. And thanks for entertaining me with all your color memories and suggestions for future Retro Pop colors. Maybe Pilot will stumble across these posts and hear our requests! Most entertaining lime green color comparisons were:…

Pen Review: Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop

I can’t believer how long Pilot waited to release the brightly colored line of their Metropolitan pens known as Retro Pop. The Retro Pop line offers six fabulous colors of the brushed aluminum bodies: red, orange, lime green, turquoise, purple and grey. And the pens are available as both fountain pens and rollerballs. I had…

Fountain Pen Day Giveaway: Kaweco Brass Sport from Fontoplumo

In honor of the third annual Fountain Pen Day which is Friday, Nov. 6, Fonotoplumo has kindly offered one Kaweco Brass Sport to giveaway to one lucky reader of The Well-Appointed Desk. There are lots of other special deals, giveaways and other festivities to show off our collective fountain pen pride all over the internet…