Link Love: Life Changes

While recovering from my awful cold last week, I also turned my life upside down. I put in my notice to quit my real jobby-job to do focus on being a pen nerd, freelance designer and general layabout full-time. I will have completed my transition sometime in Mid-April.

Being a full-time entrepreneur is something I’ve always wondered if I could make work and I finally realized, “If not now, when?” So, the good news, for you my lovely readers, is that I will be able to put more time and energy into new stationery products, more pen shows, and more content here and on Patreon. Yes, really! You are now my job!

I have lots of plans for new projects and I am looking forward to the future. I hope you will too. If there’s any reviews, content, extras or new products you’ve always wanted to see from The Desk, drop your suggestions in the comments or email me (use the “Ask the Desk” link to email me, if you want to be sneaky or if you want to hire me to design logos, products, collabs or anything!).

Pens:

• Review: Ackerman Piston Filling Fountain Pen with a Zebra Comic G Nib (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Collecting Vintage Fountain Pens – The Decline of a Hobby? (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)

Ink:

• Pure Pens John Frost (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Octopus Fluids Unicorn Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Ink Review #804: PenChalet x Van Dieman Earth (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• I Couldn’t Decide on an Ink (via Dime Novel Raven)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Guide to NOLTY Planners & Diaries (via JetPens)
• Field Notes “Flora” Edition (via Tools and Toys)
• Every Day Carry Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)
• Setting Up a New Journal (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• JetPens Kanso Noto A5 Notebook Review (via The Pen Addict)

Art & Creativity:

• Sketching during a big move (via Liz Steel)
• Rain Szeto’s Elaborate Ink and Watercolor Illustrations Illuminate the Pleasant Chaos of Daily Life (via Colossal)
• New Watercolour Pencil Selection (via Liz Steel)

Other Interesting Things:

• Weekly Drops: Hi from the Arkansas Pen Show! (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• My typewriter interview with Mary Ruefle (via Austin Kleon)
• Sacred Geometries and Scientific Diagrams Merge in the Metaphysical World of Daniel Martin Diaz (via Colossal)
• The Artful Spy who Stopped Hitler from Emptying the Louvre (via Messy Nessy Chic)
• Meta’s New “Political Content” Limits Sow Concern Among Artists (via Hyperallergic)
• How Beatrix Potter Hopped Into Our Hearts (via Hyperallergic)
• 10 pieces of advice from famous authors to make you more creative (via Creative Boom)

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