Link Love: InCoWriMo Countdown Has Begun!

Well, it’s started. The countdown to February. For most of my readers… you know what that means. LetterMo and InCoWriMo and our annual month of letter writing so the posts on various blogs have already started. If you are not a member of the Letter Writers Alliance yet. Click on one of the links below and join now so you’ll be ready this year. Get in on the Pen Addict Slack #snailmail group and find some friends to exchange letters and go over to the USPS and order some stamps now so you’ll have them ready to go. Get some international Forever stamps too, just in case. It’s always good to have them handy.

And Matt used a ballpoint pen and Joe went to Arkansas. And Patrick Rhone is back online!

Pens:

• Video: Matt Uses a Ballpoint (via The Pen Habit)
• ASCPens Bologna Wild Dark Side Fountain Pen – Magic Flex (via Gourmet Pens)
• Sailor Double Sided Nib (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Introducing the Retro 51 Mission to Mars Tornado Popper (via Pen Chalet Blog)
• Wing Sung 698 Piston-Filler Fountain Pen (via Scribble Jot)
• Stabilo Sensor Fineliner Marker Pen (via Pen Addict)
• Video: Sailor ProGear Slim (Blueberry) (via Scrively)
• Opus 88 Koloro Demonstrator Hands-on: Not a Koloro but Plainly Awesome (via Frank Underwater)
• Pilot Kakuno demonstrator (via Flex & Other Follies)
• The Essential Fountain Pen Guide (Pt. 4): Scrively’s Top 5 Shirt Pocket-Fountain Pens (via Scrively)
• Why Pelikan? (via Pelikan’s Perch)
• TWSBI Diamond 540, and the Pendleton Brown Custom Flex Nib (via Winter Sharks)
• Sailor Professional Gear King of Pen (Sky, Broad Cursive Italic Nib) (via Hand Over That Pen)
• How I Got Into Fountain Pens (via On Fountain Pens)
• ystudio Brassing Desk Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict)
• Seduced by the Kaweco Steel Sport fountain pen (via Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach)

Ink:

• Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsuji (via 8 Ball Pens)
• Colorverse Einstein Ring (via Squishy Ink)
• Robert Oster Blue Lagoon (via Mountain of Ink)
• Monteverde Olivine (via Alt. Haven)
• Pilot Iroshizuku Tsukushi (via Mountain of Ink)
• Noodler’s Air-Corp Blue-Black (via Mountain of Ink)
• Colorverse Ink Supernova (via Squishy Ink)
• Diamine Anniversary Dark Forest (via Gourmet Pens)

Pencils:

• Mom’s “Office Girl” Pencils (via Pencil Ponder)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Video: Field Notes Haxley (via Leadfast)
• How Many Techos Does It Take to Get Through a Year? (via Economical Penster)
• The History of Japan’s Tsubame Notebook (via Notebook Stories)
• 2018 Planner Plans (via The Finer Point)
• Berlin Notebook (via Office Supply Geek)
• American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened | News | The Guardian (via The Cramped)
• Rohdesign Dispatch: Logbook Your 2018 (via The Cramped)
• Ideal Notebook from Mexico (via Notebook Stories)
• Adorable Notepads & Planners from Whimsy Whimsical (via Papercrave)
• Zap Book (via Write To Me Often)
• New Hobonichi Cousin (via Hey Porkchop)

Letter Writing:

• Video: Envelope Making (via Letter Writers Alliance)
• Pen Pals By Radio (via Letter Writers Alliance)
• Why We Still Write Christmas Thank You Cards (via Think. Make. Share.)

Art Supplies, Etc:

• Top 10 TPK Watercolor Tutorials (via The Postman’s Knock)
• Sketchbooks of 2017 (via Cytumblr)
• Daler Rowney Artists’ Watercolours (via Jane Blundell Art)
• Book Review: The Art of Harry Potter: The definitive art collection of the magical film franchise (via Parka Blogs)
• Why Drawing Practice Matters and What Your Line Can Tell You (via Roz Wound Up)

Other Interesting Things:

• Great Pen Stores: My Visit to Vanness Pens (via Gentleman Stationer)
• What I’m Using Now (January 2018) (via Notebook Stories)
• Stationery Resolutions: Review of 2017 and New Resolutions for 2018 (via The London Parchment)
• ScriptusToronto 2017 Pen Show (via Gourmet Pens)
• Pen, Nib and Ink Rotations 2017 (via Analog(ue) Obsessed)