Amanda asked: I’m a university student that loves using felt-tip pens but I hate how they show through the other side of my pages! Are there any affordable felt tip pens that won’t show through the pages of a cheap spiral bound notebooks? and then to make matters even more complicated, Grace asked this great…
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Ink Review: Akkerman Treves-Turquoise
I must be on a blinded-myself-with-turquoise kick this month because Akkerman Treves-Turquoise is a kissing cousin to Private Reserve Daphne Blue which I recently reviewed. I guess I’m just ready for blue skies, turquoise swimming pools and burn-your-retinas summer colors. Akkerman Treves-Turquoise is definitely on the vivid end of the ink spectrum but its not…
Review: Story Supply Co. Pocket Staple Notebooks
Story Supply Co. Pocket Staple Notebooks (3-pack for $10, available in plain, grid or lined) might seem like just another in a long line of pocket notebook makers but I think they are offering a little something different. First, for each 3-pack of 3.5×5.5 notebooks they sell, they contribute a story supply kit to a…
Dark Lilac (Lamy) Festival Time
I grew up in a Chicago suburb known for its lilac festival so I was tickled by the Dark Lilac Lamy Safari offered this spring as part of its limited edition color series. I remember the whole town ends up smelling like lilacs by the end of April which I always liked. Its goofy and…
Fashionable Friday: Flower Bomb
I was inspired by the floral mixing and matching in the April 2016 InStyle magazine. Like all the trees and gardens in bloom, let the flowers go wild in your stationery world too! (photo credit: David Alfons Wilhelm Bornscheuer, styled by Ali Pew) Retro 51 Tornado Rollerball Pen “Bouquet” $35 (via Goldspot Pens) Dooney &…
Review: Field Notes Sweet Tooth Colors Edition
I haven’t done a reveal post of one of the Field Notes Colors Editions in a long time but the new Sweet Tooth edition is a way more fun in use than I expected it to be. When described, a colored paper edition of Field Notes with perforated pages doesn’t sound like all that big…
Link Love: Indiana Jones and the Typewriters of Gramercy
Pens: Video: Karas Kustoms Ink (via The Pen Habit) Zebra Sarasa Clip, Gel Ink, 0.5mm (via Pens and Junk) Platinum Fude Brush Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) Kickstarter: Magnetips (via All Things Stationery) The Joys of Simplicity (Pilot Frixion Biz Review) (via Sparetime Today) Uni-Pin Drawing Pen (via The Finer Point) Ink: Pelikan Edelstein Aventurine…