Thank you all for entering and thanks to JetPens for giving us the opportunity to make your Fountain Pen Day just a bit inkier! Our first winner, Elizabeth, is in dire need of a new pen case. We hope a $25 gift card helps! Our second winner, Simma has a hankering for some Japanese fountain…
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Fountain Pen Day 2018 – GIVEAWAY included!
It’s almost the most wonderful day of the year! What day would that be? That would be Fountain Pen Day! Fountain Pen Day is the first Friday in November, which makes it tomorrow November 2, 2018. So hold your fountain pens high, wear an FPD button if you’ve been lucky enough to nab one at…
Inktober 2018 – 31 Shades of Grey
by Laura Cameron I waffled about whether to do Inktober this year. Last year I had a blast, but I couldn’t think of a good theme this year and I just wasn’t sure I was up for it. Enter Knit Night (where we brainstorm the best ideas!) with the Itty Bitty Knitty Committee and I…
Notebook Review: Elemental Notebooks
Review by Laura Cameron Back when the Elemental Notebooks Kickstarter launched, I was all in. I love me a good themed notebook, and I find anything geeky endearing. I was very impressed by all the thoughtful design features that Laurie & Greg had put into the notebooks. From the title page to the colored paper…
Highlighter Review: Kutsuwa HiLiNE Highlighter Pencil
Review by Tina Koyama Like many students, I could not have survived college without neon-colored highlighter markers. Since that time, I haven’t used highlighters nearly as much, but I still have occasional need for them in my planner, on receipts, in catalogs, and the like. While I’ve broadened my scope in most other stationery and…
Pen Review: Airless Pens (Kickstarter)
Review by Tina Koyama If I had my druthers, all pens would be retractable. Since I use so many of my pens and other tools while out sketching somewhere, pens with caps are always at risk. (I once dropped a pen cap from the upper level balcony of a mall where I was sketching. The…
Building a Well-Appointed Home Office
A few months ago I made the jump from having full time employment in the outside world to freelancing from my home. As soon as I knew it would be happening, I gave some thought to where I would situate my office in our house, and how I would want to outfit it. Fairly quickly,…