The last time I was in my local pen shop, The Pen Place, I saw this box set of Faber-Castell Grip pens in neon pink sitting on a high shelf. I made the clerks pull the box down for me and I insisted on taking them home. The box set included three neon pink triangular-shaped…
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Fashionable Friday: It Was a Dark & Stormy Desk
I had such fun finding spooky, Halloween-y office goodies: from H.P. Lovecraf-tian Octo-mugs to owl paper clips, your desk can be full of things that will remind you you never know what might go bump in the night. Maybe these will inspire you to write your first ghost story? (Sources listed below in no particular…
Link Love: Touched by Tech
Post of the Week: Are you a pen person, the vocabulary version. (via Leigh Reyes) Pens: Marlen Aleph Pearly Grey LE Steel Flex Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens) Twiss Marmalade fountain pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) Karas Kustoms Ink fountain pen (via A Fool With A Pen) Favorite 5: Modern Fountain Pens (via Fountain Pen…
Ink Review: Rouge Opera
These little shooters of J. Herbin ink are just so addictive! This is the Rouge Opera ($4.75 for 10ml bottle) which came highly recommended by a friend as a “good red”. I paired it with my Kaweco Student with an EF nib. What’s black and chrome and red all over? (HA!) In the swab and…
Parker IM Premium Fountain Pen: Emerald Pearl M Nib
When the Parker IM Premium Fountain Pen ($52) arrived I could not wait to load it with “good ink.” I installed the stock blue cartridge that shipped with it on the counter at the post office and started doodling on the back of my junk mail. Who says pens aren’t an addiction? I got the…
Review: Productive Luddite Notebooks Part 1
The folks at Productive Luddite sent me a massive pile of notebooks to try and share with you. When I mean massive, I mean MASSIVE. The Freestyle Really Big Notebook is letter-sized and features 800 pages. So they are serious when they say “REALLY BIG”. The Matte Black Action notebook features ten different styles of…
Shop RESTOCK!
Finally! The rubber stamps in the Shop have been restocked. Lots of designs are now available in wood handled models as well as classic wood “art blocks”. Prices are the same so you get to choose! There are just a few sets of vintage airmail envelopes left and packets of vintage stars so act fast.…