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Continue reading →: My Favorite Journal Cover by Lochby
I keep several journals on hand. I may not use them everyday, but they are available for my writing and sketching adventures. I prefer to keep my journals inside a cover for protection and for throwing into my backpack and basically not worry about it. I’ve tried various ones from…
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Continue reading →: Quick Sketches
It’s raining outside and so I had to turn on my natural light lamp to brighten my studio a bit. I do enjoy listening to the rain and the steady drops of water hitting the roof, trees and plants outside. It would be a great day to lounge and read…
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Continue reading →: PCD!
Did I get your attention? Good! I was going through my photos and trying to organize my files and develop a naming convention. I came up with PCD for a category. Pen Cleaning Day! In my case it should have been plural like PCDs as I was grabbing a few…
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Continue reading →: How Do I Swatch My Fountain Pen Ink Colors?
Believe it or not, I started creating my ink swatches six months after I started down my fountain pen rabbit hole. The few bottles I started with grew into a dozen bottles and well you know the rest. I saw that my fellow fountain pen-folk were using rectangle cards on…
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Continue reading →: Another Abalone? Yes!
The first abalone pen I bought was the Retro 51 Cioppino fountain pen. The pen has bits of broken abalone strategically placed in a black background which looks to be resin. Covered with layers of clear resin. The Cioppino is trimmed with rose gold and comes with a JoWo #6…
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Continue reading →: A Rose Gold Day
Here’s a quick post of a new pen and ink I received today. I saw someone post about a Platinum rose gold pen. It’s a new series in their Procyon line called Luster. Here’s my rose gold pen: I have a few Procyon pens from Platinum’s 100th anniversary collection in…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Fountain Pen Carrying Case
I wanted to write about my favorite pen carrying case. I have tried several different brands and styles and they perform different functions for me. I actually classify my fountain pen cases into two different functions: pen storage and pen carrying. Today, I will share my favorite pen carrying case.…

























