Category: fountain pen
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April 2025 ink palette & journal supplies
Let’s try getting this posted before the end of the month this time! Here’s what I’m using for journal/calendar stuff this month, with some mini reviews of the supplies I’ve used already. Notebook As I mentioned last month, I’m starting a new notebook for April even though my iroful one isn’t quite full, because I…
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March 2025 ink palette & journal supplies
I took these pictures back at the beginning of March and never posted them, so you get them on the last day instead! Stickers March’s Fountain Pen/Ink Combos: Since this is the end of the month, I’ll say that all of these worked out pretty well, but I did have a bunch of hard starts…
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February Ink Palette + Pens + Stickers
People actually responded to my January ink palette so I’m encouraged enough to post one for February! I’m starting with just 4 inks this month. My current plan is to also rotate in some of the other pens I have inked if I want a few more colours (I have a few on my desk…
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January Ink Palette / Spinning
Happy new year! I haven’t decided if I’m going to record my ink selections on the blog all year, since they’re already recorded in my journal itself, but I like seeing other people’s choices so here’s January’s inks!
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How is my new journal setup working for me?
I’m already 2/3 of the way through my current journal! I blame fountain pens and have some thoughts about what’s working and what needs adjustment.
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Shark Pen!
It’s a fountain pen shaped like a shark! It’s made by Jinhao, who are known for making cheap but often decent fountain pens. It sounds like not all of their pens are winners because quality control isn’t great but if you’re willing to roll the dice and don’t mind that the design may be a…
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A trip to Oblation Papers
I had a little bit of solo time on my way home from BSidesPDX in October, so I stopped by Oblation Papers. I couldn’t remember if I’d ever visited before — maybe once when I was visiting before we moved to the area? Anyhow, it’s very pretty: I mostly went to look around, but I…
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Unconventional travel fountain pens: Pilot Kakuno & Platinum Preppy Wa
It was likely inevitable that I’d start thinking seriously about having some travel-specific fountain pens. I’m no longer the world traveller I was in my 20s when writing papers and going to conferences to present them was a key part of my job, but I have a certain amount of travel-specific stuff in my life.…
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Glow Pen! TWSBI Eco (Medium)
I bought a glowing pen to replace my finicky first pen. Plus some musing on how the glowing definitely makes the pen work better for me; science agrees!
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Goodbye gold corgi journal!
As expected, I finished my bullet journal, just barely managing to fit an entry for Sept 30th, 2024 on the last page. It was started on January 1, 2023, so it lasted just under 2 years. The corgi design is from Kela Designs, and I bought it for myself on the condition that I actually…
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Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen
I picked this pen up at the same time as my TWSBI pens (Making this pen 5 in my collection), with a similar vision in mind: trying the big stub nibs. This one sports a CM / Italic / 1.0mm stub. My first impression upon getting the pen was overwhelmingly positive: this is a solidly…
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TWSBI ECO-T and TWSBI Swipe Fountain Pens
After a few months of using my mystery wood pen and the Pilot Varsity that I picked up when I bought ink for the first pen, I decided I was clearly having enough fun that I should add a few more pens to my collection. So pen number 3 and 4 were a pair of…