Link Love: Getting Through the Week

This week, with the New Year well under way, most folks have returned to work or school and it’s business as usual again. Hopefully, as we proceed this week, we feel rejuvenated, rested and a little more inspired to write in our journals, plan with our new planners and work towards our goals. But, if not, that’s okay too. Sometimes, the plan can just be “let’s get through the day.”

Year in Review Wrap-Ups & Beyond:

• The Best of Left Hook Pens (via Left Hook Pens)
• 2022 State of the Collection: Pens & Inks (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• My top 12 inks and project review 2022 (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• My favorite five pen-and-ink combinations from 2022 (via mnmlscholar)
• 2022: Some of my fountain pen highlights. (via Fountain pen blog)
• 36 Things I Learned in 2022 (via Kottke.org)
• My fountain pen drawings in 2022 (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Prompts for the New Year (via Austin Kleon)
• Thoughts Heading into 2023 (via The Pen Addict)
• My Personal Notebooks and Planners to Enter 2023 (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Intentions for 2023: Personal Reflections and Goals Looking Forward (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Pens:

• Want A Gorgeous Pen? (via An Inkophile’s Blog)
• The 42 Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens (via JetPens Blog)

Ink:

• Ink Review #743: Robert Oster: Chicago (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Ink of the Week – My 2023 Project (via Fountain Pen Love)
• The Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2022 (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Ink Review #2012: Robert Oster No Fixed Address (via Mountain of Ink)
• Diamine Writer’s Blood on Kokuyo Perpanep Zara Zara (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Bungubox Original Ink Morning Glory Red Purple Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)

Pencils:

• Video-Review: Caran d’Ache Ecridor (Mechanical Pencil) – Retro finish (via Scrively)
• Sheaffers (via The Leadhead’s Pencil Blog)
• Vintage Caran d’Ache Supracolor Soft Colored Pencils (and History Update) (via
  Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• The Crayola Challenge (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Chronodex Weekly Planner Jan – Jun 2023 Released (via Scription)
• Need a Flexible, No-Pressure Planner for 2023? Try Undated. (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Guest post series – ‘Filohax’ No.3 – Paul (via Philofaxy)
• Bullet Journal “The Pen” Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Out with the old… (via Bleistift)
• Theme System Journal Part 1 (via Stationery )

Art & Creativity:

• Year in Sketchbooks – 2022 (via Apple-Pine)
• Dirty Blue hand-made watercolours (via Jane Blundell Artist)
• For Auld Lang Syne (via Abigail Halpin)
• Eclectic Top Nine (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Meet the Artists Behind the USPS’s Upcoming ‘Art of the Skateboard’ Stamps (via Kottke.org)

Other Interesting Things:

• Book Review: Kevin Smith: His Films and Fans (via Parka Blogs)
• Hilarious Standing Cat Photos Taken by Swiss Photographer Alexis Reynaud (via Design You Trust)
• 32 Favorite Cookie Recipes from MDK Readers (via Modern Daily Knitting)
• Wicked Cushions — Stylish Aftermarket Headphone Earpads (via Tools and Toys)

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