This year I drove to the Dallas Pen Show. It’s about an eight hour drive from Kansas City to Dallas through the flat lands of Kansas and Oklahoma with the occasional respite of tollbooth and gas station. While I like seeing the country, this particular stretch of the US needs to be seen once or…
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Link Love: Endless Notebook Reviews
I have to wonder if I’ve used this title before? But, ironically, we have a lot of Endless Recorder Notebook reviews this week. It seems that Endless is making a real effort to get its name out to the stationery community right now. There’s also lots of enthusiasm around Inktober this week and art supplies…
OMG! It’s Inktober!
I can’t believe its the first of October already! It totally snuck up on me this year. This is probably late for many people to start thinking about the annual Inktober challenge but, at the same time, I don’t think that this should be something that is so intimidating to do that you can’t start…
Notebook Review: Field Notes National Parks
Review by Tina Koyama If you hang out in the Field Nuts Facebook group as I do, you’ll know that fans of Field Notes Brand notebooks have been clamoring for years for an edition honoring our National Parks. Iconic America, the great outdoors, back to our roots – the National Parks seem to fit right…
Link Love: Squirrel Loves Flower
This week, I had a hard time deciding which category to put a lot of these links. There are some in Arts & Creativity that, even if you think you’re not interested in a lot of “those” links might be worth clicking this week like the Eames spinning tops video or the hand-drawn illustrations of…
Notebook Cover Review: Coal Creek Leather Bainbridge A5
At the San Francisco Pen Show, I had the privilege of meeting the owner and creator of Coal Creek Leather, Ehsaan. It was his first pen show and his first experience with world of fountain pen collectors but he was excited. He also had the table next to Brad (NockCo) so he got the full…
Friday Faves: Tina’s Fall List
In our second installation of Friday Fave’s, Tina hopped up and submitted her current faves. She’s added more snacks and more pencils to her favorites. Hopefully, you’ll find some good tools, good snacks and good reads to add to your weekend. Fave reads: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, by Gail Honeyman and Beginning Drawing…