While recovering from my awful cold last week, I also turned my life upside down. I put in my notice to quit my real jobby-job to do focus on being a pen nerd, freelance designer and general layabout full-time. I will have completed my transition sometime in Mid-April. Being a full-time entrepreneur is something I’ve…
( I had an image of John Cena from the Oscars ceremony as the Link Love featured image but I was worried that Getty Images would sue me for usage rights so envision Cena holding up the envelope with “Link Love” printed on it. Funny, right?) I confess I was too busy knitting with my…
This past week was full of news about Lamy. We already posted about the sale of Lamy to Mitsubishi but Friday every phone at the Baltimore Pen Show lit up like the ink equivalvent of an Amber Alert when the NYTimes article about Lamy’s re-release of Dark Lilac was published. There were many comments about…
Tomorrow morning, I head out to LA for the California Pen Show — my first pen show of 2024. I’ll be working with Dromgoole’s with ink maven Jesi. We are both so excited to spend a few days in fountain pen fanstasyland. Please some say hello to us, if you’re in LA this weekend. I…
It’s weeks like these, when the stationery community fills my inbox with joy, fun and new discoveries, that I realize how amazing this community is and how important it is to my emotional well-being. From cheap French supermarket pens to lots of blue inks to Kottke.org using his comment section as a job search option,…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been utterly fascinated by the fervor surrounding the Stanley Pink Tumbler collabs that turned a January morning at Target into Black Friday Mayhem (see the link below in “Other Interesting Things”). It’s an incident that has led to conjecture, concern, head shaking and more. Is it another example of…
I’m SHOCKED! There are NOOOOO pen reviews this week. Everyone is talking about ink and paper, particularly plans for their planner, journal or other new year’s record keeping. Which I think tracks with the rest of my life. Even my knitting group has gone deep on planners in the last few weeks. Laura and I…
