Misfill, Inside Stationery Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— Inside Stationery (Pt. 01): Sarah J. Coleman aka Inkymole – Diamine Ink Bottle Labels & Packaging (Scrively)

— Law Students Who Handwrite Their Notes Outperform Laptop Users By One Grade (TaxProf Blog)

— Pen Review Revisited: Pelikan M101N Grey-Blue Fountain Pen (The Gentleman Stationer)

— 3 Oysters DIY My Color Kit (Mountain of Ink)

— Origin Story: Reflecting On Our First Decade (Carryology)

— Notebook Review: Blackwing Clutch (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Plain Handy Stamp (Wakibungu)

— Moleskine’s digital notebook and a visual inventory of Earth win Apple's Apps of the Year (It's Nice That)

— Inkmas Challenge - 2019 (Duck's Doodles)

— Pencil Review: DOMS X1 (Polar Pencil Pusher)

— Holiday Gift Guide 2019 (The Pencilcase Blog)

— 2020 Sarcastic Vintage Pictures Calendar Is Here! (Design You Trust)

— Galen Leather A5 Notebook Cover (Gourmet Pens)

— Birmingham Pen Co. Albert Einstein Relative Cadmium (Inkdependence!)

— Classic Blue is Pantone's colour of the year for 2020 symbolising calm, confidence and connection (Creative Boom)

— A Box of Squared Notebooks (Moleskine alternatives) (Notebook Stories)

— Pelikan And Luigi Colani: A Collaboration (The Pelikan's Perch)

— Paul Sougy’s Vintage Scientific Illustrations for French Schools (Kottke)

— review: robert oster signature great southern ocean (ink between the teeth)

— Taschen’s new publication traces the exquisite history of Japanese woodblock printing (It's Nice That)

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Posted on December 8, 2019 by Brad Dowdy and filed under Misfill.

Diamine Inkvent Calendar Day 7

(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)

Happy Day 7 of Inkvent! I hope you’re enjoying Pen Addict’s daily reveal of these Diamine inks. Today’s ink might just make you want to snuggle close to that special someone.

Behind door 7 is Mistletoe. Pucker up everyone! Mistletoe is a standard green ink that definitely captures the color of the plant (well, it’s actually a parasite that attaches itself to our Arizona Ash tree, but still). The ink is a lovely green with excellent shading and a tiny bit of red sheen.

The ink performs well in all nib sizes. Once again, my photos of the ink on the Rhodia paper are a bit washed out. The ink’s color is closer to what you see on the Col-o-ring Card samples.

I really like Mistletoe. It’s not a showy color, but the deep sage tones and subtle shading make it a great choice for writing and maybe painting a few Christmas trees on cards. And, if you don’t have any real mistletoe handy, you can just dangle the little ink bottle above someone’s head and grab yourself a sweet holiday kiss.

(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)

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Posted on December 7, 2019 by Susan Pigott and filed under Diamine, Inkvent, Ink Reviews.