Pens: I Know What I Like – Part 2 (via That One Pen) Tale of a Vandal Pen User: Nibs Part 2 – Off-the-Shelf Stubs (via Peaceable Writer) The Newton Shinobi (via The Gentleman Stationer) Lamy Al-Star 2016: Charged Green (via Wonder Pens) Fosfor Bangalore Fountain Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) OMAS Limited Edition Calligraphy…
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Planner Review: Studio Calico Hello Forever A5 Planner
Last year, when I first started dabbling in planners, I downloaded the Marcy Penner’s Hello Forever printable inserts for my planner. Since then, Marcy Penner has started designing her Hello Forever planning products for Studio Calico including a line of A5 planners (8.25″ x 9.5″ x 1.375″). While Studio Calico is most known as a company that…
Ink Review: Private Reserve Daphne Blue
Private Reserve Daphne Blue ($11 for 66ml bottle or $1.25 for 2ml sample vial) is the most beautiful Mediterranean Sea blue. At first, I was worried that the color would be too light to work in a fine nib fountain pen but the color is deep and vivid enough that its actually extremely legible, even…
Video: Life Hacks with Binder Clips
Kooky video full of life hacks using binder clips! Office supplies will save your life! Or at least make it more convenient. (Huge shoutout out to DameEmma from my Secret Society of Enablers for pointing me to this video. Totally blew my mind.)
Ask The Desk: Good (and Pretty) Stationery
Cialina asked (me way back in October): Hello! Holiday season is coming up and I’m looking for fountain pen-friendly stationery to gift to my friends. I’m looking for more than just blank writing tablets like Clairefontaine and more in line with Rifle Paper Co products. Any ideas? Thanks! This is a question that frequently comes…
Fashionable Friday: The Little Black Bag
This week, I asked three of my friends to pick out their dream “little black bag” because every girl needs to have the perfect “little black bag” in her closet. I knew each friend would pick unique bags, and boy, did they! Then I filled their bags with just the right notebook, pen and accessories.…
Kickstarter: RelayCon Atlanta 2016
It’s happening again! Brad and Myke are getting the gang back together for a live recording of The Pen Addict podcast in Atlanta at the pen show in April and they are letting me tag along again. Help support our efforts to be the nerdiest of all pen nerds and get a cool notebook, and…