This week we travel from the Chicago Peh Show all the way to the stars. Is it just me or has this year been particularly stellar, astronomically speaking? I know some people tink between the eclipse and the auroras, we are about to see the end of times but, to me, being able to see these phenomenon (if only through photos) feels magical and amazing. It reminds me to see all the wonders in the world big and small. May you find a little wonder this week too!
Pen Show Recaps:
- 2024 Chicago Pen Show – Not My Usual Recap (via The Pen Addict)
- Chicago Pen Show 2024 Recap (via Dime Novel Raven)
Pens:
- Video: My Top 5 favourite things about fountain pens (via Pens and Tea)
- Fountain Pen Filling Systems Explained (via JetPens)
Ink:
- Video: 22 Purple Fountain Pen Inks | Season 2 Ink Exploration No. 4 (via Dandelion Diaries)
- Ink Review #2540: De Atramentis Pigeon Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
- Ink Review #2541: Akkerman Out of the Blue (via Mountain of Ink)
- Ink Review #811: Faber Castell Burned Orange (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Guest Post – Using Filofax Organisers as ring binders – Part 1 (via Philofaxy)
- Ask TGS: Where Do I Start with Paper for Notebook Systems? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Art & Creativity:
- Make Good Comics by Jung Ha (via Drewscape)
- Success means you get to do it again tomorrow (via Austin Kleon)
- A trip to the Iris Garden! (via Apple Pine)
Other Interesting Things:
- Displaying my teacup collection (via Liz Steel)
- Wes Anderson’s Montblanc Commercial (via Kottke.org)
- The Gentle Librarian (via Kottke.org)
- Hackers can reprogram NES Tetris *from within the game* (via Kottke.org)
- Want to run a typewriter shop? (via The Typewriter Revolution)
- iClever BK09 Folding Bluetooth Keyboard (via Tools and Toys)
- Best Photos from This Weekend’s Extraordinary Northern Lights (via My Modern Met)
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I am now obsessed with finding Pigeon Blue ink anywhere in the USA that will ship. Google has not helped. Even Dromgoole’s (local pen store) doesn’t list it.
It’s one of my all time favorites. Did you check at Vanness? They stock most of the Deatramentis inks.
Yep. And Anderson, and Goulet, and even JetPens. And Amazon. the only place I could find it was at the De Atramentis website, where the shipping cost to the US is about the same as the purchase price. I’ll keep looking and maybe inquire about special orders.
Check with Vanness. I suspect they can add it to their next Deatramentis order.
Guess what! Mike contacted my right away and said he had a restock order coming from De Atramentis but that it had been delayed.
And then today he sent me this: “I had a memory yesterday. Because everybody thinks about ink colors on the weekend. Pigeon Blue was renamed Colombin Blue a while back. I do have a bottle of it in stock.”
So! In case I wasn’t the only one pining for Pigeon Blue, there is hope. A bottle and an indigo/bronze TWSBI ECO stub will be on their way to me shortly.
That’s awesome! If I buy another bottle, I might decant it into the Pigeon Blue bottle because I like pigeons. I know, I’m a weirdo.
Will do! Thanks.