The Pen Rest - A Uniquely Stackable Pen Display (Sponsor)

The Pen Rest is a beautifully designed pen holder, made to show off your favorite writing instruments at home, office, or anywhere you are inspired to write.

This newly launched Kickstarter project is made from anodized aluminum, with a built in tray made to hold your most used or most stunning pen. In addition, The Pen Rest is designed to be stackable due to the integrated tounge and groove system. Stack The Pen Rest high and top it off with your favorite bottle of ink for a beautiful display of your collection.

Give your pens the home they deserve with The Pen Rest. Reward levels start at just £24 for a single Pen Rest, with discounts for multiple, stackable units. There is nothing else like this on the market so head over to Kickstarter to see the specs, watch the video, and see what stretch goals are in store.

My thanks to The Pen Rest for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week.

Kick Off The New Year With ArtSnacks (Sponsor)

One of my New Years Resolutions is to draw more and I can't imagine a better company than ArtSnacks to help with that.

Each month, ArtSnacks curates a box of art supplies that function well together and sends them right to your doorstep. For example, December's box contained a set of six drawing pencils of different lead grades from Pentalic, a kneadable eraser by Faber Castell, a Posca Paint Marker by Uni, and an Illustration Marker by Prismacolor.

All of these high quality items come wrapped in a neat package, so opening it is a surprise every month. ArtSnacks also includes fun add-ons like stickers and candy in each box.

ArtSnacks has several different plans to choose from, starting at $20 per month with price breaks for both the 6-month and 12-month plan. They also ship internationally, so don't hesitate to jump right in and kick off a very creative 2015!

My thanks to ArtSnacks for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week.

Uuni 2 - For Pizza Addicts Everywhere (Sponsor)

It seems a bit random for a small company making wood-fired pizza ovens to sponsor a pen blog but hear me out:

I believe that if you’re geeky enough to dive this deep into pens, there might be a few amongst you who thrive for perfection when it comes to pizza.

Here’s the Uuni story in a nutshell: I wanted to make great pizzas but couldn’t afford a traditional wood-fired brick oven. You know, the ones that are like $1000 or more and take up huge amounts of space. So I decided to invent and design a new type of wood burning oven that is small, incredibly fast and, most importantly, affordable.

Here are the specs:

• Ready to use in 10 minutes
• Cooks a pizza in 2 minutes or less
• Reaches temperatures of up to 840°F (450°C)
• Weights only about 20 lbs or 9 kg

To really get a picture of what delicious foods you can cook with it, check out more at Uuni.net.

How can you get one for yourself? There are two ways:

1) Order one on our website and get an instant $20 off by using the code PENADDICT at checkout. Easy right? We’ll send it out the next day.

2) Alternatively, you could try and win one. First to list, in the comments, all of the Field Notes editions shown in the photo above (starting from top left to bottom right) wins. Competitions closes on Boxing Day, Friday, December 26th at Midnight eastern. This contest is open only to residents of the US and UK. Good luck!

Update: Here is the answer key and some notes from Kristian:

Hey Brad,

How you doing? Ok, got this far now, here’s the official list:

Expedition

Fire Spotter

Cold Horizons

Cold Horizons

Night Sky

Night Sky

America is Beautiful

Drink Local Ales

Drink Local: Lagers

XOXO 2014 (Or standard)

National Crop

Pitch Black

Pitch Black

Country Fair New York

Day Game

Day Game

Northerly

Northerly

Ambition

Shelterwood

Shelterwood

Including the XOXO is what I feel a little bad about as it’s impossible to tell from a standard so let’s just count that as a standard.

Quite a few thought the Day Game is Balsam Fir. misstcnj got that right but then fell on thinking Night Sky is Raven’s Wing. S/he also got the Dot-graph wrong. Only two participants correctly spotted America is Beautiful.

So, I’m afraid there wasn’t any winners this time :)

Best,

Kristian