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My First Pen Show: The Northern Pen Show 2024
Since getting into the fountain pen hobby late last year, something I’ve heard a lot about is pen shows. Most of the ones I see referenced online are the large American pen shows, which sound incredible, but are obviously very far away from me here in England. So I was very curious as to what… Read more…
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – April 2024
This month I felt like I finally had more time to spend with my pens and inks, thanks to my house move being over. I also had a week off work in the middle of the month, which helped! The last few days of April also ended up being quite an exciting time in my… Read more…
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8 Pen Questions
As someone who watches a lot of fountain pen YouTube videos, I’ve been really enjoying seeing all the 8 Pen Question tag videos that everyone has been doing recently (started by Seemownay and Liane Likes). I then saw a fellow blogger take part the other day (Pascal from Peacock Pens), and really enjoyed his post… Read more…
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How do you store your fountain pens?
Until recently my pen storage system has been imperfect, but simple: I kept all my inked pens in two pen cases on my desk, and my uninked pens lived in a larger pen case I kept in a drawer. This worked for the most part, but after reworking my desk space following a house move,… Read more…
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Review: Platinum #3776 Century Nice Lavande Fountain Pen
In the six months since I first got into fountain pens, I’ve tried a lot of pens. Probably too many, as I’ve been constantly buying them since then. All of my pens have been relatively inexpensive so far though, running from £3 Jinhao 82s and £5 Platinum Preppys, to £25 Kaweco Sports, and £35 TWSBI… Read more…
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – March 2024
March 2024 has been an incredibly busy month for me, as I was preparing to move house, and so I unfortunately haven’t managed to spend as much time with my pens and inks, or on this blog as I’d have liked. We finally moved on Friday though, and are starting to get settled and get… Read more…
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Review: Majohn A1 Fountain Pen
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed my first retractable fountain pen, the Majohn A2. I loved it so much I immediately bought the Majohn A1, and was excited to try it out. Like the Majohn A2, the A1 is a retractable fountain pen that clearly takes a lot of inspiration from the Pilot Vanishing… Read more…
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My Kaweco Collection
My fountain pen journey all started with the Kaweco Sport in Light Lavender. I can’t even fully remember how I stumbled upon this pen, I just thought it looked cute, ordered it, and fell in love. After that, I fell hard into the fountain pen hobby as a whole, but one area of my collection… Read more…
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Review: Majohn A2 Fountain Pen
When I first became interested in fountain pens, I didn’t really ‘get’ retractable fountain pens. I felt that if I wanted a pen that I could easily click and use, surely I would just use a ballpoint pen? It’s only as my love of fountain pens has grown that they’ve started to pique my interest,… Read more…
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – February 2024
This month I’ve managed to lower the number of pens I have inked, and have done a lot of cleaning out and storing of some pens I haven’t used in a while. I also made a couple of new purchases though, which subsequently got inked to be tested out, and so I still have 17… Read more…
Inky Imaginings 