Link Love: Thanks for the Love!

This week’s link of the week is left-handed illustrator, Anke Weckman who went above and beyond and did a pen and pencil test of every tool she owned. I double-dog dare you to do the same.

Pens:

• Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen (via The Pencilcase Blog)
• Pens and Markers for Food Labels and Kitchen Storage (via JetPens Blog)
• LWA Laboratory: Fountain Pen Foundations (via LWA Blog)
• Review: Zebra Brush Pens (via Owl Ink)

Ink:

• Sailor Jentle Rikyu-Cha (via Inkdependence)
• Noodler’s Inks Test 02 – A Mix of Magic (via Fountain Pens Ink & Bleach)
• Robert Oster Signature Ink Astorquiza Rot (via Pen Addict)

Pencils:

• Palomino Blackwing Volume 24 Steinbeck Edition (via Gourmet Pens)
• Shahsons Pencil Company (via Weekly Pencil)
• Where Do No. 2 Pencils Come From? (via Fast Co.)
• Blackwing Volumes 56 Joe DiMaggio (via Office Supply Geek)

Paper & Notebooks:

• Moleskine And Platinum Carbon Ink (via Inkophile)
• Pocket Notebooks: A Comprehensive Guide (via JetPens Blog)
• Galen Leather Field Notes Cover No 55 Review (via Inktronics)
• Notes on Lunacy Field Notes (via Pens and Junk)
• DINGBATS* Medium A5+ Notebook (via Gentleman Stationer)
• New Art Journal- Moleskine Sketchbook (via Seaweed Kisses)
• Seawhite of Brighton Sketchbook (via Roz Wound Up)

Planners:

• Announcing our Holiday Printable Series! (via Day Designer)
• A field notes log book/diary for 2017 – special offer (via My Life All in One Place)

Other Interesting Things:

• 2016 Holiday Gift Guide (via Gentleman Stationer)
• Visiting Traveler’s Factory in Tokyo! (via Baum Kuchen blog)
• Creative Bug Sale (via Lisa Congdon Today is Going to be Awesome)
• Lisa Congdon on Jealous Curator Podcast (via Lisa Congdon Today is Going to be Awesome)
• Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Honey Butter Crust (via Think.Make.Share)

Calepino Grands Carnets – Large Notebooks from Calepino on Vimeo.

The Calepino large notebooks being made by hand in a teeny tiny shop in France by one man. He prints the covers on a Heidelberg windmill (the same sized presses my husband uses though his are a bit newer), cuts them on an old industrial guillotine cutter, makes the bellybands with what looks like a clear foil or varnish and then wraps them on the books. The video does not show the stitch binding process but one assumes that might be done in the same small shop as well? Pretty mesmerizing.