Normally, I hate flip flops. The toe peg makes my feet sore, they are impossible to walk in on sand, and are usually worn by toffs at university in the middle of December. Flipping ridiculous. However, the Say Nice Things Flip Flop is a different story. It’s one of my favourite fountain pen friendly notebooks… Read More Flip Flopping: Say Nice Things Flip Flop Notebook Review
Hey y’all! Check out my new For Sale page for all the latest bobbins that you can get your hands on. Enjoy! Keep those nibs mucky!
When one thinks of Manuscript Pens, you think of cheap calligraphy sets, a love of the colour black and annoying plastic packaging that only the devil himself could open. BUT, the lovelies at Manuscript have come up with a new, high end and – thank god – non-plastically packaged older brother: the Manuscript ML 1856.… Read More ‘Baby, I don’t want no stubs’: Manuscript ML 1856 1.1 Stub Review
The best products take a common problem and offer a simple solution. The Inky Fingers Currently Inked Log is one of these products. The Existential Problem We all suffer from inky insanity on some level. We have trillions of pens inked but no idea what with, and no easy way to track their pairings. Sure, we could… Read More An Inky Idyll: Inky Fingers Currently Inked Notebook Review
What’s harder than passing an elephant through the eye of a needle? Choosing a measly SIX pens to ink for the ENTIRE of March! ARRGGHHH! The Instagram #6penchallenge has been doing the rounds this week, and Ant of U.K. Fountain Pens peer pressured me in to taking part. (He also peer pressured me for an… Read More Top of The Pen Pots: 6 Pen Challenge
First rule of InCoWriMo Write Club: you do not talk about InCoWriMo Write Club. Second rule of InCoWriMo Write Club: you DO NOT TALK about InCoWriMo Write Club (seriously don’t, I was ribbed by my non-pen nerd family and friends for all of February). Third rule of InCoWriMo Write Club: USE ALL THE PENS! Brad… Read More The First Rule of Write Club: 5 lessons I learned from #InCoWriMo 2017
Welcome to my new weekly feature: Top of the Pen Pots! It’s a run down of pens and stationery goodies that I’ve had my mucky paws on over the last seven days. Think ‘currently inked’ on steroids. (Also reads better if you sing the Top of the Pops theme tune in your head.) LET’S DO THIS! New… Read More Top of The Pen Pots: What I’ve used this week
Everybody loves a quickie, right? Especially those that include leather, suede and studs… …on a William Hannah notebook of course! I received a William Hannah (WH) beauty as a birthday gift from my better half, after much convincing, foot rubbing and dinner cooking. £99 seems like an unholy sum for a notebook to non-stationery obsessed… Read More Fancy a Quickie: Quick look at the William Hannah notebook
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