Link Love: Dueling Ink Ladies!

Oh yeah! It’s that time!! The Atlanta Pen Show is this weekend and it won’t just be me (and Lisa from Vanness Pen Shop) in Atlanta… Jesi will be there too! She is helping at the Dromgoole’s table for the show. But wait! There’s more! Kelli from Mountain of Ink will also be at the show and helping at the Vanness Pen Shop table! Dueling ink ladies! Get advice and recommendations from two of the most knowledgable ink ladies in the pen community this weekend!

I will just be standing around grinning under my mask at actually being at a pen show after two years. I hope to see some of you there. If you make it to the show, please come and say hello!

Pens:

• The Best Fountain Pens for Drawing (via JetPens Blog)
• How to refill a fountain pen ink cartridge (via The Pen Company Blog)
•  London Pen Co Christoper 14 & Carolina Pen Company Pastel PM Handwriting Beauty (via Gourmet Pens)
• Rating every pen I own (100+!) (The pens you need… and the pens you don’t) (via All About Planners)

Ink:

• A defense of the partial ink fill (via mnmlscholar)
• A review of sorts – new Iroshizuku ink colours  (via A Stationery Voyage)
• Ferris Wheel Press Peter Moss (via Mountain of Ink)
• Van Dieman’s Tasmanian Lavender on Leuchtturm1917 (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Vinta Piloncitos (via Mountain of Ink)
• Review: De Atramentis Pink Rose Gold (via Krafty Cats)
• Kobe Fountain Pen Inks 37-54 swatch tests (via Nick Stewart FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Fountain Pen Ink Review: Cozy Comforts by Robert Oster Signature × EndlessPens × micahfinds (via Rants of The Archer)
• Kakimori – A 2-for-1 Quick Look (via The Pen Addict)
• Adapting my sentimentality to function at work (via mnmlscholar)
• Monteverde Mandarin Orange (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• An Inky Question (via dapprman)

Pencils:

• Swisswood HB (via Stationery 🍕 )
• The Best Wooden Pencils (via JetPens Blog)
• What Is A Carpenter’s Pencil? (via Unsharpen)
• Join the Dark Side: Grades of Pencil Graphite from HB to 4B (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Lochby Field Journal in use (via Nero’s Notes)
• Kokuyo Campus Word Cards Review (via The Pen Addict)
• On Keeping a Commonplace Book (via Notebook Stories)
• Paperblanks Flexis Notebook Review (via Notebook Stories)

Art & Creativity:

• sumi ink doesn’t bleed through (via wibble wibble)
• Atlas Insider: Put It on Pocket (via Modern Daily Knitting)
• Episode 371: Soldotna Number 4 (via The Corner of Knit & Tea)
• 7 Ways to Troubleshoot Calligraphy Nibs (via The Postman’s Knock)
• Exploring “the tension between the mechanical and the handmade” with illustrator Carolyn Hawkins (via It’s Nice That)
• Jacob Wise’s five key considerations for designing your own letterforms (via It’s Nice That)

Other Interesting Things:

• My most important rule for reading (via Austin Kleon)

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