Happy Cinco de Mayo and Revenge of the Fifth!
To celebrate our favorite holiday, May the Fourth Be With You, we are hosting a week long sale in the shop. It’s a once a year event — we are offering 20% off all merchandise and this offer is available in our Big Cartel and Etsy shop. Sales ends on Sunday.
I probably should have titled this week’s Link Love as “All Our Inks Are Blue” since we are chock-a-bloc full of blue ink reviews this week. There are also some stationery-related links in “other interesting things” and a noticeable absence of cats. If you need a cat fix, go back to last week and revisit the Bodega Cats.
In Art & Creativity, Laura launched a new knitting pattern. Check it out and send her a big congrats!
Finally, we say goodbye to another space pioneer this week. Godspeed, Michael Collins, may the view from wherever you are now be stellar.
Pens:
- High Street Fountain Pens for a Fiver (via dapprman)
- Montegrappa Harry Potter – Gryffindor (via An Unexpected Letter)
- Stanford Wood Studio Inspired by The Impressionists Fountain Pen | Exclusive Ink | Pouch (via Gourmet Pens)
- What The Doublé L? An Exploration Of Rolled Gold (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- It’s That Time Again! Updated 2021 “Best Pen” Recommendations (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Ink:
- Toomanyinks Instagram revived (via TooManyPelikans)
- Taccia Light Washed Jeans on Leuchtturm1917 (via Inkcredible Colours)
- PenBBS #513 (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Kobe 07 Kaikyou Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
- Workhorse Inks: Exploring Iroshizuku, Part II (Asa-Gao, Murasaki-Shikibu, and Aji-Sai) (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- The Noodler’s Cinematic Universe: Noodler’s Lermontov (via Left Hook Pens)
Pencils:
- Pencils !?!?!? (via Fountain Pen Quest)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Handwritten letters for those living with cancer (via The Pen Company Blog)
- Index Cards (via Nero’s Notes)
Art & Creativity:
- How To Sew On A Button (+ Video!) (via Tilly & the Buttons)
- The design of graphic props and how a graduate animation got nominated for an Oscar (via It’s Nice That)
- Monotype sums up the creative trends we’re seeing this year – and nostalgia is a big one (via Creative Boom)
- Negley’s Delightful Diplodocus (via Fancy Tiger Crafts)
- Knit Me: Snickersnack in Brown Sheep Yarn Co. Lana Bouclé (via The Corner of Knit & Tea)
Other Interesting Things:
- Galen Stack & Store pen trays: great if you come with the right expectations (via UK fountain pens)
- Office party. (via Present&Correct)
- Self-care on Repeat: The Art of Organizing (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- Jessica Vaughn’s Cathartic Critiques of Office Culture (via Hyperallergic)
- A Documentary About How We Got to Sesame Street (via Hyperallergic)
- Iconic Volkswagen “Love Bus” Gets an Electric Revival In Its New ID.Buzz (via My Modern Met)
- RIP NASA Pioneer Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Crew Member (via My Modern Met)
- A Rare Toshiba Typewriter from the 1950s Operates with a Trilingual Index of Thousands of Characters (via Colossal)
- Solar Mountain Would Produce Renewable Energy at Burning Man (via My Modern Met)
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