We have two beautiful notebooks to giveaway today from Galen Leather. They have created the new 1870 Marbled A5 Notebooks ($45 each) in two colors — Ocean Waves and Molten Lava — which feature fountain pen-friendly 52gsm Tomoe River paper. The notebooks have 200 sheets between their hand-bound covers and include grid and lined guide…
That pen show calendar was getting a little dusty, so we pulled it out, checked our links and added the 2025 dates where we can find them! We’ve also added a new section devoted to stationery fests (Yoseka started a trend) and other planner shows. As always, if we missed anything, please let us know.…
We are over the moon for Fountain Pen Day! To celebrate, check out our shop and get 10% off any order over $20 through Sunday 11/3/24. This sale is available in our shop and on Etsy (convenient for non-US customers). Just use the code FPD10 at checkout. Happy Fountain Pen Day!
Thanks to everyone who entered our Laban Rosa Fountain Pen Giveaway. Our winner for the giveaway is CC who wrote a little poem waxing about the color. Thanks again to Luxury Brands for sponsoring this giveaway. Stay tuned for more giveaways soon!
A new player has come to light recently in the pen world – Tom’s Studio. This is a pen maker in England who broke into the scene with calligraphy tools and is quickly expanding into fountain pens, refillable fiber-tipped pens, and most recently, Tom’s Studio ink. I ordered a Lumos pen from Tom’s Studio months…
I grabbed a small B6 notebook called the Nakabayashi W/U ($3.20) while I was at the Dallas Pen Show. It is filled with 40 sheets of dotted line 5mm grid paper with a natural white color. The book is stitch bound with a glossy paper board cover. It’s a classic “cahier” style notebook. I wanted…
The monkeys at the desk are having a bit of a rough go today so we apologize that this drawing is a little later than normal! The two lucky winners of the Notegeist Bindery Everydays are Christopher and Heather. Congratulations to both! And we apologize to Heather in advance that this is a dangerous blog…
