This was the lineup at the weekend when I sat down to choose my pens and inks for March. It is almost all the inks I own, the absences are one pack of cartridges which are living at work and one bottle which is hiding away until April. The initial whittling-down was pretty easy because…
Pretty blues: Clairefontaine journal, Kaweco pen, Waterman Inspired Blue ink, and a decorative box Following on from last Wednesday’s blog post, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the word count from the week leading up to Christmas when I used the intentional journaling pages with the past week in my lined…
We're less than a week into the new month and I've been in the mood to change things up. I finished the journal that I had started back in April, the one in which I'd chosen to use only shades of brown ink. I enjoyed that discipline, and I do like the cohesive look of…
It's hard to believe that two weeks have passed since the London Pen Show. I don't feel I've completely assimilated my purchases into my regular fountain pen life, though they are inspiring me, each in their different ways. Today I'm going to round off my retrospective by covering what I think of as the odds…
Here we are with part two of my London Pen Show recap. This time I’m going to talk about my new Waterman Exception, the pen which I’ve had on my wish-list for a long time but always seemed out of my reach. This is a super pen with some great design features, most notably the…
Hot on the heels of my visit to the Knitting and Stitching Show came the London Pen Show. This was my first time attending the event and even watching the excellent videos that Penultimate Dave produces after each show didn’t quite prepare me for it. The location was perfect, with the Novotel Hammersmith being an…
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