This weekend Sailor North America is hosting its first virtual online ink show. Registration to participate opened on Friday, Oct 2nd at 9am Pacific. For a fee of $20 individuals are offered an opportunity to meet with a Sailor Ink expert 1-on-1 for 15 minutes to purchase a bottle of the “2020 Exclusive Pen Show Ink” (20ml) combined with any additional ink purchases. During the consulting session, attendees would also have access to any of Sailor’s inks currently available in the US including: Shikiori, Manyo, Bungubox, and Kobe.
More details and links to registration slots (if any are still available) can be found at sailor.pen.northamerica
As the pandemic continues, we are all searching to find ways to share our passions, keep our businesses thriving (or at least solvent) and keep connected with each other in a continually isolated existence. I think we all went into this with a certain amount of grit and determination but as time goes on we are all feeling the burdens of our losses great and small.
Pens:
- Baronfig Liberty. (via PENCIL REVOLUTION!)
- Sailor Pro Gear King of Pen Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Video Review: Pilot Custom 845 Urushi (via Scrively)
- News: M405 Silver-White Announced (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- Jim Hinze: there’s something special about a handmade pen… it has soul (via Inkede Happieness)
- Benu’s Euphoria is glitter, grown up (via UK fountain pens)
- Shining a light on Loft Pens (via UK fountain pens)
Ink:
- Colorverse 75 Somnium (via Mountain of Ink)
- nagasawa kobe #8 arima amber (via Ink Sharks)
- Robert Oster Taiwan Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
- Video: Japanese Fountain Pen Ink Show (Pt. 1) (via YouTube)
- Sailor’s Sailor (via Mountain of Ink)
- Handwriting with Caran d’Ache Infinite Grey Ink (via Gourmet Pens)
- Montblanc Homage to Victor Hugo Sepia Brown Ink (via Gourmet Pens)
- Diamine Hybrid Ink Exclusive! (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- Noodler’s Lexington Gray (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Robert Oster Burgundy (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Storing Ink Sample Bottles in a Shotgun Shell Case? (via Write Experience)
- Tono & Lims Dynamite (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
Pencils:
- Review: Musgrave Tennessee Red Pencils (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
- Black Eraser Showdown (via Writing at Large)
Notebooks & Paper:
- The best time saving tool for bullet journaling (via All About Planners)
- An Influx of Stationery. (via The Finer Point)
- Re-discovering three-cornered notes – The Collation (via The Cramped)
- Using Ink in Your Journals (via Cult Pens)
- Traveler’s Notebook 2021 Things (via Wonder Pens Blog)
Art & Creativity:
- Get Your Creative Juices Flowing With This Handy ‘Collage Kit’ (via
Brown Paper Bag) - Sketchbook Review: Clairefontane Goldline Natural (via Liz Steel)
- Viviva Colorsheets And Sketchbook Review (via Doodlewash)
- Book Review: New Botanical Painting by Harriet De Winton (via Parka Blogs)
- Getting ready for inktober! (via Apple-Pine)
- International Open Call: Submit Your Art to Create! Magazine’s Winter Issue (via Colossal)
- Jun Lin on how graphic design brings a physicality to the written word (via It’s Nice That)
Other Interesting Things:
- Creative Pumpkin Painting Ideas That Are an Alternative to Carving (via My Modern Met)
- Eerie Photographs Reveal the Unseen Ruins of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in a New Book (via Colossal)
- Lazy Sunday: Enola Holmes (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- One Year On… (via Cult Pens)
- Office Supplies for Hybrid Workers Who Split Time Between the Office and Home (via JetPens)
- On Temporarily Closing Again (via Wonder Pens Blog)
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