I like thinking about Valentine’s Day as a great opportunity to practice a little self-care. Here in the midwest, its still cold and potentially snowy, so Valentine’s Day is a good time to take a hot bath, make a blanket fort or just do something you genuinely enjoy. That might be something with someone you love (children, friends or spouse) but it can also be taking time for yourself, making your favorite meal or just sitting with a cup of hot tea and a book for 30 minutes. So, do what makes you happy this week. And that can be eating an entire box of chocolates. You’ve earned it.
Valentine’s Vibes:
- 52 Valentine’s Day writing prompts to inspire creativity (via The Pen Company Blog)
- Cut-and-Assemble Swallow Valentines (via The Postman’s Knock)
Pens:
- Pentel Calme 0.5 mm Ballpoint Pen Review — The Pen Addict
- Majohn P136 Titanium Hammered Fountain Pen Review 4K (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
- Writing with CM and Italic Nibs (via Fountain Pen Chronicles and More)
- Cypress Maki-e Dragon Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)
- Aurora Ipsilon Deluxe Italic Fountain Pen Review 4K (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
- Montegrappa Cult Pirates Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)
- Even More Chinese Capless (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
- Comparing Low Viscosity Ballpoint Pens: Jetstream vs. Acroball vs. Anterique vs. Ohto (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Ink:
- VIDEO: I didn’t even know Midori made ink! (Inkdependence on YouTube)
- Monthly Inked // 2025 Rotation (via Weirdoforest Pens)
- Introducing Apricot Achat: The Edelstein Ink of the Year (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- Ink Swatch Wednesday: Kakimori Frost Rollerball and Diamine Inkvent Vibe (via Cjs Wunderkammer)
- Octopus Fluids x Fountainfeder Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
- Van Dieman’s Beeswax (via Inkcredible Colours)
Notebooks & Paper:
- 90 Years of Diary-Keeping (via Notebook Stories)
- Instead, I Wrote a Joy List (via My Giant Strawberry)
- The Flux and Flow of Journaling (via RozWoundUp)
- The Field Notes Thing (via 512 Pixels)
Other Interesting Things:
- February Notes: New Nibs, Pen Departures (via Line Variation)
- Galen Leather Expansi-Pouch 10-Pen Case Review (via Fountain Pen Love)
- The best books for tech skeptics with an imagination (via The Typewriter Revolution blog)
- Visit to Traveler’s Factory Station in Tokyo, Japan (via Inkcredible Colours)
- A New TSL Collaboration Piece: The A5 Zipper Portfolio (via Wonder Pens)
- Analogue Tools (via Pete Denison)
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