Link Love: Looking Forward, Looking Back

The end of the calendar year always provides a mix of posts looking back over the year and looking forward to the new year. I can’t help but filter 2021 through the lens of the pandemic. The news of the Omicron variant has only exacerbated the likelihood that 2022 will be our third year in a pandemic. While I love pens, ink and stationery, I am curious how another year of the pandemic will affect supply chain problems, inflation and other unforeseen forces that might impact our hobby — and the world at large.

I will try to be positive about 2022 and hope that it brings about a clear end to this life-altering pandemic.

Pens:

• Review: Osprey Delta dip nib (via Parka Blogs)
• My Esterbrook Estie (via Liz Steel)
• Cambio Tambien Brush Pens by Kuretake Review (via Doodlewash)
• The Best Erasable Pens and Inks (via JetPens Blog)
• REVIEW: NEW PARKER 51 FOUNTAIN PEN (via The Pencilcase Blog)
• Visconti Blue Ripple Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)
• Lamy Scala: a forgotten gem? (via UK fountain pens)
• Video Review: Parker 51 (2021 re-release) (via Scrively)
• Sailor × Pent Realo Tenku-Souzou (via Flex & Other Follies)
• Hahnemuhle FineNotes Slim and Bold fountain pens: a brave new entry by an old name (via UK fountain pens)

Ink:

• Ferris Wheel Press Three Steamboats on World Craft Freiheit (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Kobe 19 Minatogawa Lime (via Mountain of Ink)
• Van Dieman’s Tassie Season Sweet Fig Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Diamine Blue Edition Gingerbread (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Dominant Industry Lake Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• The currently inked invent challenge, week two (via mnmlscholar)

Pencils:

• Review: Blackwing Lab 11-26-21 (Extra-Soft Core) (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Karandash Krasin (via Bleistift)
• Blackwing Natural (via Stationery 🍕)
• Pollux (via Stationery 🍕)

Notebooks & Paper:

• I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business | Tiny Projects (via The Cramped)
• KOKUYO PERPANEP notebooks (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Journals and Notebooks. (via PENCIL REVOLUTION!)
• Today, I am. A collection of Hobonichi Techo’s from 2020. – Fun Stuff – Hobonichi Techo 2022 (via The Cramped)
• End of Year Journaling Prompts (via Wonder Pens Blog)
• Converting a monthly calendar into a weekly spread using the TUL planner (via All About Planners)

Art & Creativity:

• My Summer Break begins (via Liz Steel)
• Sketch Material Wish List for 2022 (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• The Yarn Tarot (via Modern Daily Knitting)

Other Interesting Things:

• Review: Viewsonic Woodpad Paper (via Parka Blogs)
• Finding a form that accommodates the mess (via Austin Kleon)
• Finding Solace in the Garden’s Beauty: Why I Grow Blooming Plants Indoors (via My Giant Strawberry)
• Omicron’s Rapid Spread Shuts Down Museums Across Europe (via Hyperallergic)
• From NFTs to balloon art, we look back on a sometimes chaotic but always creative 2021 (via It’s Nice That)
• Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright! (via USPS Newsroom)
• Yoseka’s 2021 Top 10 Stationery Picks from Lennon Tool Bar to Kakimori (via Yoseka Stationery)
• The Pen Show of hope. Madrid 2021 (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• 2021 Year-End Review, Part III: Favorite New Acquisitions (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Thoughts On The Future of The Cramped (via The Cramped)

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