Fountain Pen Ink
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My Stationery Goals for 2025
Happy New Year! 2024 seems to have gone by in a flash, and I can’t believe we’re now in 2025! I always really like the energy and sense of possibility New Year gives, and like a lot of people, it’s the time of year I think most about the future, and my goals. I have… Read more
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My 2024 Stationery Favourites: Part 1
2024 was my first full year in the fountain pen hobby, the year I got into planners and the year I joined the online stationery community. So it’s fair to say it was a big year for me, and an expensive year, as I fell down a lot of rabbit holes! As you can imagine,… Read more
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Am I an over-inker?
On my desk I have a lovely 23-pen display box where I keep all my inked pens, whilst my uninked pens live in a 48-pen case in my drawer. 23 pens is a lot to have inked at once, but since the box holds that many, I set that as my arbitrary limit… Except that… Read more
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A Year of Fountain Pens
I bought my first fountain pen back in September 2023. It was a Lavender Kaweco Sport I stumbled across on Amazon, that I just thought looked cool. When I got it I clicked in the cartridge that came with it, tried it, and really liked it. And then that was it. I used the pen… Read more
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My 8 Favourite Fountain Pen Inks
At the beginning of my fountain pen journey, I was all about the pens, and just used the same handful of inks. But in the last six months I’ve developed a bit of an inky obsession, and so my collection has exploded. And whilst I love trying out new inks and experimenting with different brands… Read more
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Stationery Shopping in London
Since starting in the fountain pen hobby last year, I’ve done most of my pen and ink shopping online. This is quite a niche hobby, and so most of the regular stationery stores only stock a few Lamy Safaris and a bottle or two of Parker Quink ink. So any opportunity to shop for pens… Read more
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What ink colours do you have most of?
When sorting through my ink collection the other day I was wondering about which colour family I seemed to prefer in my inks, and decided to count them up. And the results were quite surprising to me! My favourite colour is purple, followed by pink and green, and so I expected those to be the… 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
Inky Imaginings 