Link Love: The Gift Guide Season Has Arrived

If you can’t tell by the title of this week’s Link Love, Gift Guide season is upon us. Check out all the cool ideas for gifts and add them to your wish list. Then hopefully, on Friday, you can buy, buy, buy!

On the topic of Gift Guides, keep an eye out for every pen lover’s favorite holiday tradition, the Pen Addict Podcast Gift Guide episode. Brad and Myke have once again allowed me to come in and take over as third host and tease Brad shamelessly. The episode will air on Wednesday, November 29 (next Wednesday) so I’ll remind you again next week but I wanted to make sure you blocked your calendars for another hour of pen gift guide nonsense!

The Gift Guides Are Here!

• 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Pens, Inks & Writing Accessories! (via Pen Chalet)
• 2023 Hanukkah Gift Guide (via Penquisition)
• The 2023 T.G.S. Holiday Gift Guide (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Pens:

• Pen Review: TWSBI Kai Limited Edition Fountain Pen (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Early thoughts on the Tibaldi Infrangible Black Gold fountain pen. (via Fountain pen blog)
• Reflections on Some Currently Inked Pens (via The Pen Addict)
• YSTUDIO Ocean Sustainable Rollerball Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Journey of Discovery – How I Started Collecting Fountain Pens (via Pen Boutique Ltd Blog)

Ink:

• Ink Review #787: Diamine Wonderland (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Pure Pens Westgate Hotel on Muji Planting Tree (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Ink Review #2412: Ferris Wheel Press Brilliant Beanstalk (via Mountain of Ink)

Pencils:

• Kokuyo Enpitsu Sharp 1.3mm Mechanical Pencil Review (via The Pen Addict)

Notebooks, Paper & Planners:

• Paper Sizes (via Philofaxy)
• Making Filofax Personal Size Your Everyday Organiser (via Philofaxy)
• Field Notes “Heartland” Edition (via Tools and Toys)
• Why Journaling is important to Stuart (via Nero’s Notes)
• Revisiting the Lamy “lined and grid” notebook (via Nero’s Notes)
• Hobonichi Techo 2024 (via Bleistift)

Art & Creativity:

• Messing Around with Graphitint XL Blocks (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Kendall Ross Gets Personal with Her Colorful Sweaters Embedded with Stories (via Colossal)
• MDK Knitting Tool Hall of Fame (via Modern Daily Knitting)

Pen Show Recaps:

• Timber! Timber! TIPS 2023 (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Recap of TIPS2023 (via Inkcredible Colours)

Other Interesting Things:

• USPS Operation Santa Letter Adoption Now Open (via USPS Newsroom )
• New Video on Thermal Instant Print Cameras (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Incredible 19th-Century Glass Negatives Detail Life in New England (via My Modern Met)
• 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 672) (via Messy Nessy Chic)
• What the Hell is a Zine anyway? A Counterculture Crash Course Guaranteed to Make You Cooler (via Messy Nessy Chic)
• Gratitude zines (via Austin Kleon)

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