Link Love: Back-to-Business

Here in the US, this is the last official week of summer. Next Monday is Labor Day, the official start to Fall in most people’s minds. All the kids are back in school now, universities are back in full swing and the evenings have started to have a sweet cool breeze harkening the break in the unrelenting heat.

So, what do pen people do? We stock up on composition notebooks and other office supply gems (Do I need more Sharpies, just in case?) at our local big box stores, revel in the SF Pen Show (live or vicariously) and start planning our 2023 planner set-ups. What’s your back-to-school/back-to-business routine?

Pens:

• Top Five Pens for Planner Use (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Opus Cineris Harmonic Nib Series A Silver Cursive Italic Hand Engraved Nib by Anabelle Sophie Hiller (via Gourmet Pens)
• Ban Mi Glass Nib Fountain Pen (via Nick Stewart FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• PenBBS 456 Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)

Ink:

• Sheaffer’s Bling: Shimmery Sheaffer? (via Inkdependence!)
• Ferris Wheel Press Cream of Earl Grey (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Lotus (via dapprman)
• Diamine Writer’s Blood on Clairefontaine Triomphe (via Inkcredible Colours)
• currently inked iii (via ink between the teeth)
• Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsuji Ink Review: a.k.a. Pilot Iroshizuku Azalea Ink (via Pen Chalet)
• witches: lamy azurite (via A Fleeting Ripple)
• Private Reserve Black Cherry (the new formula) (Inkdependence!)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Some People Are Notebook People // Trina O’Gorman (via Baum-kuchen)
• How Team Yoseka Uses Our Hobonichi Planners! (via Yoseka Stationery)
• Traveler’s 2023 Theme Announced: Traveler’s Cafe! (via Yoseka Stationery)
• Composition Book Round Up Back to School Sale 2022 Target (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• My bullet journals are as useful as my last index update (via mnmlscholar)
• Early thoughts on the Flying Tiger traveller notebook. (via Fountain pen blog)
• Daily and Weekly Planners with lay flat binding (via All About Planners)
• Decisions decisions decisions….. (via Philofaxy)

Art & Creativity:

• Tiny Stitches Breath New Life Into Second-Hand Fabrics (via Brown Paper Bag)
• My current Faber Castell Selections (via Liz Steel)

Other Interesting Things:

• London’s History, Washed Up on the Shores of the Thames (via Hyperallergic)
• Vintage Cover Photos of Popular Mechanics Magazine in the 1930s and ’40s (via Design You Trust)
• What I brought on my trip (via Inkcredible Colours)
• a recipe for disaster: holiday carry (via A Fleeting Ripple)
• 2022 San Francisco Pen Show Recap, Day 1 (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• All-Black Female Crew Flies to Honor Bessie Coleman (via My Modern Met)
• The James Webb Telescope Captures Jupiter’s Rings and Brilliant Aurora in Two Stunning Composites (via Colossal)

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