Laura and I have been attempting to fight an onslaught of comment spm. Our good friend Julia was even called in to help. The site was receiving so much spm that we were kicked off of Askiment’s Pro Plan and told they would only support us at the Enterprise level to the tune of $249/mo.…
I’ve been home for a little over 36 hours from DC and I am still a zombie. I was one of the many people who had delayed and cancelled flights and didn’t arrive in DC until about midnight Thursday night/Friday morning. I worked at the Vanness tables most of the time and then I taught…
I confess I’ve had Wearinguel ink samples but never a full bottle of ink and now that I have Wayfarer, I get the fuss. Wayfarer is a shading, shimmer ink — the base color is a turquoise/teal with purple shimmer. The shimmer particles can be seen in the bottom of the bottle. So pretty. The…
Oblation Papers & Press in Portland, OR released a custom ink for the Pacific Northwest Pen Show in collaboration with Anderillium Inks called Oregon Marionberry. Each bottle comes in a small 15ml brown glass bottle with beautiful letterpress labels. The ink is a burgundy, red-purple with a tiny bit of shading, no sheening and no…
I have always been a fan of Midori MD products so when I saw the new MD A5 Notebook featuring Paper Thick ($23.50), I knew I needed to try it out. The MD Paper Thick is listed as 141gsm which puts it into the same category as a lot of the 120gsm (and up) bullet…
This month Paramount+ dropped season 3 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds which I have anxiously been awaiting and then followed it up with an announcement about an episode of Season 4 where the characters will appear as Muppets. First, they did a crossover episode with Lower Decks, then an all-musical episode, now Muppets?!?! THIS.…
If you’ve been following The Well-Appointed Desk for awhile, you might have noticed that green is my favorite color, particularly chartreuse, yellow-greens. However, over the years, I’ve found that chartreuse colors are challenging in fountain pen inks. They either get too bright or too light. Not dingy enough for me, nor do they hit the…
