February is International Correspondence Writing Month, more commonly known as InCoWriMo, because we can’t seem to do anything without shortening it these days. (Also, get off my lawn.) (GeOMLaw.) Anyway, if that hasn’t put you off, this seems to me to be an excellent excuse to use some pens. It is, in fact, a lovely […]
Here’s a sketch of my Gran, who is 99. This sketch is from her 97th birthday. When she was born, in Sheffield in 1914, Britain had just declared war on Germany; women didn’t have the vote; milk was delivered by horse and cart; no-one had a television and George V was king (and most people […]
SlimNote pocket notebooks are handmade by Tiny TOE Press. They are 3.5 by 5 inches, 50 pages, plain except for the rather mad hex set. Thus very pocketable and lovely. The paper is reasonably friendly to fountain pens. As the samples show, there is a little feathering and bleeding with wetter pens. It is perfectly […]
Koreana A fascinating article about the South Korean Pilot Company from Crónicas Estilográficas.
This is a very bright rather saturated orange ink. It’s almost tangerine in colour. I haven’t seen many sunsets like this and I can’t say that I’m going to use it all that often. But it’s bright and cheery and that’s always a good thing. Here’s me doing the doodle: