Link Love: Pre-Pen Show Tension

Tomorrow morning, I head out to LA for the California Pen Show — my first pen show of 2024. I’ll be working with Dromgoole’s with ink maven Jesi. We are both so excited to spend a few days in fountain pen fanstasyland. Please some say hello to us, if you’re in LA this weekend.

I hope I’ve remembered to packed everything I’ll need. What would you put on your pen show packing list?

Pens:

• under-pretentious: montblanc meisterstuck 144 fountain pen (via A Fleeting Ripple)
• Montblanc Meisterstück 149 Calligraphy Flex & Curved Nibs – Playtime (via Gourmet Pens)
• It’s a new month, what’s in your pen cup? (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• Pronounced ˈwey-ver-lee’ but Do You Mean Waverly or Waverley? (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• Uni-Ball One F & One P Review (via The Poor Penman)
• Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon (via Bleistift)
• Twist or Click: What’s Your Retractable Pen Preference? (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Ink:

• Seventeen Ink Questions (via Pen Boutique Blog)
• The Wet Pen Inks: Deception Pass and Elliott Bay (via A Gathering of Curiosities)
• Octopus Inks (via Wonder Pens)
• Cult Pens Matthew (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Anderillium Cephalopod Inks, Part 1 (via Mountain of Ink)
• thINKthursday – Sailor Tea Time Moroccan Mint Tea (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Ink Showdown: Dominant Industry Goryeo Celadon & Wearingeul Dewy Starlight (via The Pen Addict)

Pencils:

• Colleen Woods set sells for ¥110,000 (via pencil talk)

Notebooks & Paper:

• How I Use My Notebooks: My Kindle Unread Book List (via Writing at Large)
• So, I Bought a New Planner (via Dime Novel Raven)
• Musubi Rasa paper (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Midori 5 year after a year (via Stationery)

Art & Creativity:

• New Technology Helps Artists Safeguard Their Work Against AI (via My Modern Met)
• Using natural media to do comics- pros and cons (via Drewscape)
• Winter Europe Trip: Madrid, Spain (via Apple-Pine)
• Miniature Tea Sets Made of Polymer Clay by Clay Zoo (via My Modern Met)
• Block Print & Hourly Comics Day (via Abigail Halpin )
• Basic principles for drawing comics (via Drewscape)
• Offal is a zine designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer using Microsoft Word (via It’s Nice That)
• Sister’s Ink Iridius Rainbow Bright 24 Watercolour Palette Review (Doodlewash)

Books:

• Every writing book is good (via Austin Kleon)
• LeVar Burton hosts an episode of Banned Book Rainbow (via Kottke.org)
• Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books (via Literary Hub)

Other Interesting Things:

• Scenes from a Trade Show in 2024: It’s All About the Paper (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Dance Burn Calories, Improvise Other Indicators of Health (via My Modern Met)
• Stanley Quenchers Became the ‘It’ Refillable Tumbler. Then Came the Leadening (via Dieline)
• The Best Office Supplies for Remote Workers (via JetPens Blog)

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