In honor of their 10th anniversary of Federalist Pens created FranklyX, an exclusive Robert Oster Shimmy Ink ($20). The ink is a black base color with champagne/light bronze shimmer particles to create a golden color-shifting shimmer showing green, grey and blue hues as well as the top color of gold. When compared to other inks…
First, Happy Halloween!!! May your day be filled with pumpkins, costumes and all the thrills and chills you can handle. I’m a fan of cute spooky, not scary spooky so I’m more Hello Kitty in a ghost costume than horror films. But I will be eating my weight in candy and drinking as much pumpkin…
Another month, another chance to start over on my planner. This month, inspired by autumn vibes and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, I am pulling out all my leaf washi tape, mushroom stickers, and anything warm brown, russet, golden like the leaves that are finally starting to change color here in the Midwest. I was hoping…
I am scheduled for dental surgery on Tuesday so I am writing and editing Link Love ahead of schedule. Hopefully, all goes well and I will just be all “Thanks, Past Ana! Now you can sleep late on Wednesday.” But, on the chance that I am completely high on Tylenol with Codeine, enjoy Link Love…
While attending the DC Pen Show, I had an opportunity to participate in a survey at the Pilot USA table. The tam at Pilot was asking attendees to compare to types of paper using various pens and asked a series of questions as to why we preferred one over the other. Upon completing the survey…
I met Mike Antkowiak at the St. Louis Pen Show several years ago and have followed him on Instagram since then. Mike got his start with fountain pens early in life but didn’t really start using them until he discovered he could combine fountain pens with his love for drawing. Like so many of the…
Over the last couple months, I’ve seen such enthusiasm around the new Zento line of Uni-Ball gel pens. They are consistently sold out with massive fervor when they are re-stocked. I wanted to find out what the big deal was about. I decided to try both the standard Uni-ball ZENTO Gel Pen (0.38 mm Cloud…
