Link Love: Portland Ho!

So much news this week, both from around the pen community and from me. First off, I am headed off to Portland on Friday for the Pacific Northwest Pen Show with Team Dromgoole’s. If you are coming to the show, please stop by and say hello!

Next, there are lots of “currently inked” posts this week which I quite like. I love seeing what colors people choose and why. Do you match your ink to your pens, do you have a theme for the month or the week?

And finally, there is a lot of pencil news this week. After been overlooked and neglected by the stationery community oh these many months, this week, if you’re a pencil fan, we have news and posts for you!

Pens:

• Majohn P138 Piston Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)

Ink:

• Wearingeul Wizard of Oz Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
• Van Dieman’s Rhubarb Crumble (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Ink Review #2566: De Atramentis Copper Brown (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #819: Wearingeul Medeia Belia (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Ink Review: Caran d’Ache Magnetic Blue as a Classic Blue-Black (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Currently Inked:

• Ink Swatch Wednesday: Currently Inked for July (via cjs-wunderkammer)
• July’s Currently Inked Fountain Pens (via Writing at Large)
• What’s What 7/1/24 (via Line Variation)

Pencils:

• Vote for the Graphite Party (via Nero’s Notes)
• The Best Lead Guard Mechanical Pencils (via JetPens Blog)
• Blackwing X TRAVELER’S COMPANY (via TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA)
• The upcycled Noris in Germany (via Bleistift)
• Chasing the Perfect Point: Considerations in Choosing a Desktop Pencil Sharpener (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Planners, Notebooks & Paper:

• Plottermore // How I Plotter (via Weirdoforest Pens)
• What binder I plan on getting (via Stationery)
• Testing different pens on different paper thickness (80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 GSM paper) (via All About Planners)
• Notebook Prices (via Notebook Stories)

Art & Creativity:

•  White Party, Part 3: Acrylic and Other Markers (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Over 900 Artifacts Recovered From Ming Dynasty Shipwreck (via My Modern Met)
• On My Table: Beginning of July 2024. (via Apple-Pine)
• Iconic Artworks by Keith Haring Pop Up in a Vibrant New Book (via Colossal)
• Portland, Part 4: Diary Comics/Walk-Sketch Journal (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Did I abandon the waterbrush or the small palette first? (via Liz Steel)

Other Interesting Things:

• Stationery on the Road (via Dime Novel Raven)
• Stationery Shopping in London (via Inky Imaginings)
• Sample Vial Holder (via Wonder Pens)
• Summer is for Side Quests (via Casual Crossings)
• Visiting Opus 88 in Taipei (via Wonder Pens)
• A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City (via Colossal)

We need each other. Please support our sponsors, affiliates or join our Patreon. Your patronage supports this site. Without them, and without you, we could not continue to do what we do. Thank you!