My improved pen show kit includes mnml stickers
I visited this year’s DC Pen Show on Saturday and Sunday. There are already quite a few accounts of the show itself. Both wonderful descriptions and thoughtful evaluations.
My focus skews toward the current evolution of my pen show kit — which I call my floor kit. The pens and notebooks and bags I used to navigate the large, wild aisles of the DC Pen Show.
Avoiding the weeds, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On the benefits of sticking to the basics, avoiding the weeds, and settling on the pens that keep writing fun.
A new, varied and balanced currently inked collection
August heralds two major changes for the writing I take up. First, I have new writing options available as a result of my adventures at the DC Pen Show. Whee.
Second, the first week of August also begins three weeks of half-days prepping for the coming school year.
The treacherous adventure of gifting stationery to your hobbyist friend or loved one
When I give a gift, I want to see wide, happy eyes. I want to see my loved one dive into the gift and find joy in it. However, my stationery joy lays in picking my stationery apart, separating out what works from what works less-than-well for me — in addition to digging writing itself. My picky, choosy, sticklerish obsession makes me a bad stationery gift-receiver. Oof.