December Sponsor Spotlight

Pilot FriXion Waai Retractable Gel, via JetPens.

Sponsor support is very important to me here at The Pen Addict. My sidebar advertisers put their faith in me to deliver good value for them month in and month out, and I want to shine the light on the best of the best for you. If you are shopping for pens, paper, inks, and more, please check out these great companies and see what they have to offer. Some recent highlights:

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JetPens stocked up on the new Pilot FriXion Waai Retractable Gel pens, which feature a batch of new ink colors for the lineup.

Pen Chalet dropped the Van Diemans Ink Exclusive Solar System Collection, featuring nine planetary shades.

Goldspot released the brand new Visconti Voyager Mariposa Fountain Pen, in both the Painted Beauty and Malachite colorways.

Holiday Week Twitch Streams Starting Today!

We are taking the week off from review content on the blog, but I’ll be streaming on Twitch today at 3 p.m., plus Wednesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. Eastern. If you are off from work, need a break from family, or just have some extra free time, swing by and say hi!

Misfill, Snow 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:

— Best in snow. (Present & Correct)

— Year in Review – 2023 Pens (Rachel's Reflections)

— Inkmas Day 11: Vinta Aegan Armada 1944 (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Kilk Celestial Blue & Black (Figboot on Pens)

— Victorinox Bantam Review (Everyday Commentary)

— Diamine Inkvent 2023 Day 21 (Writing at Large)

— My Theme For 2024 (From the Pen Cup)

— A Notebook in the Movie Elf! (Notebook Stories)

— Lost Art of the Streets: Rediscovering 1980s London Graffiti through Peter Marshall’s Lens (Design You Trust)

— Diamine Inkvent 2023, Day 22 (Cheryl Lindo Jones)

— Pent Yukiguni (Inkcredible Colours)

— Top 100 songs of 2023. (Meadowparty)

— The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 (Letterform Archive)

— More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas's 'Wild World' Map (Colossal)

— Inkmas Day 10: Montegrappa Sapphire (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— From Japan, a Modular Stamp for Creating Calendars (Core77)

— A Budget-Friendly Notebook is Looking Up & Up (Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)

— Hong Dian Dark Blue Forest (dapprman)

— The five toxic ex inks (idipbananasintocoffee)

— Octopus Fluids Sheening Inks Review (Nick Stewart)

— Finding some multi pens to try out (Stationery🍕)

— Paper and Pen (Bleistift)

— ink review : Wearingeul – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (inkxplorations)

— Armando Simoni Club Bologna Medio Fountain Pen Review (SBREBrown)

— The History of Cartography, the "Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever," Is Free Online (Open Culture)

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