Link Love: I Smell Chai

It has started to cool here in Kansas City. Our mornings have a slight chill in the air and the evenings are cool which means on September 1, I made my first pot of pumpkin spice coffee. I started making spice tea in the evenings and I started knitting a new wooly sweater. I sest up my planner for September in a bookish theme. I have 100% fully embraced the coming of Autumn.

Are you ready for Fall? How do you celebrate the changing of the season? Do you live somewhere that the weather and seasons are different? Share your seasonal vibes in the comments!

Pens:

• So Many Sailors… Part Five! (via Pen Boutique Blog)
• My Most Used Pens and Inks – August 2024 (via Inky Imaginings)
• Pairings Party: Retro 51 Coffee House Tornado Fountain Pen and Kobe Kitano Antique Sepia (via Pen Addict)
• It’s a new month, what’s in your pen cup? (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• Flying with Fountain Pens (via Wonder Pens)
• Review: Kaweco Art Sport Hickory Brown Fountain Pen (via Inky Imaginings)
• Should You Buy a “Bulkfiller”? Checking in on one of the Internet’s Most Talked About Filling Systems (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Fun facts about the BIC ballpoint pen (video) – Boing Boing (via The Cramped)
• Gioia Metis Fountain Pen Review (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
• Pilot Precise V7 Rollerball Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Thomas Trum’s works are made with giant felt tip pens and custom-built paint machines (via It’s Nice That)

Ink:

• Ink Battle: Kyo No Oto and Colorverse (via Rachel’s Reflections)
• September Leaves Ink Palettes (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #2619: Octopus Fluids Orange Bunny (via Mountain of Ink)
• My 10 Favorite Blue Black Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #2618: Ferris Wheel Press Majestic Maple Syrup (via Mountain of Ink)
• Monteverde Color Changing Inks, Part 2 (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #827: P.W Akkerman Orange Boven (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Ink Swatch Wednesday: Wearingeul Potato of Spring (via CJs Wunderkammer)

Pencils:

• Caran d’Ache Supracolor Special Edition (2024) (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• School start pencils (via Bleistift)

Notebooks & Paper:

• 2025 Hobonichi Techo Covers & Accessories (via JetPens)
• Ryman Medium Soft Cover Notebook review. (via Fountain pen blog)
• Stalogy A6: I finished one! (via Dime Novel Raven)
• Notebooks I have known (via The Typewriter Revolution blog)

Art & Creativity:

• Late Summer at Ben & Jerry’s (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• On My Table: Beginning of September 2024. (via Apple-Pine)
• The Case for Changing Drawing Tools? (via RozWoundUp)
• BOOK REVIEW: “Watercolor in 10 Minutes A Day” by Garima Srivastava (via Doodlewash)

Other Interesting Things:

• Newsletters should be letters (via Austin Kleon)
• 52,000 Ancient Roman Coins Found in a Field in Britain (via My Modern Met)
• Take a Nostalgic Dive Through a Visual Cassette Tape Archive (via Colossal)
• Can Visual Artists Get People to Vote? (via Hyperallergic)
• How French illustrator Lapin turned sketching from a pastime into a way of life (via Creative Boom)
• Visit to Lamy x Ink House in Hong Kong (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Galen Leather Zippered Single Pen Case Review (via The Pen Addict)

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