I promised myself that I would not buy any more stationery until I had reviewed all of the items I had already bought, which is to be honest a ridiculous requirement, and the consequence is that I have just ordered some more. Perhaps this will teach me not to set myself such impossible goals to [...]
Fairly quick post, this: previously when I’ve referred to the Midori Traveler’s Notebook and related products, I’ve linked to The Journal Shop, because they were the only people I knew who sold them in the UK. I consider that a decent reason, and I certainly have no complaints about their service. However, I recently found [...]
After a while – in fact, on the 18th of October 2010, since I date my journal entries – the Traveler’s Notebook not lying flat having the knot at the back having the metal lump at the top not having a hard cover were just a constant annoyance to me. I was looking around at [...]
An iron gall blue black ink that actually retains some blueness.
Gorgeous ink, if you don’t mind smearing. Unfortunately I do.
Good quality plain paper notebooks? Surely not.
Having recently received (a) a number of nice new red inks and (b) a nice new scanner, I thought I would combine the two and compare a few different reds to each other.
“Amazing Amethyst” does sound a bit like a type of chewing gum, but Diamine’s Amazing Amethyst ink is really quite a pleasant one, if not truly amazing. For reference I compared it to a couple of other purplish inks – J Herbin Poussière de Lune, and Diamine Imperial Purple. Unfortunately the pictures don’t really show [...]
Flickr set For other residents of the United Kingdom, here is a quick note about two inexpensive notebooks to be found in high street stationery shops. (Those outside of the UK might see these around but it probably isn’t worth ordering them specially.) I still have the Midori Traveller’s Notebook for general journalling but I’ve [...]
(Flickr slideshow) Whilst on eBay I decided to risk the enormous sum of $4.90 on the pictured Jinhao Missile fountain pen, delivered from Hong Kong by this seller who appears to deal in smoking accessories and fountain pens. This seems like a line in stock that would be approved of by many writers, perhaps with [...]