One of my favorite ink lines is CdA’s Colors of the Earth. I like the concept (colors inspired by nature) and the bottles (cubist crystal candy). My first favorite was Storm, a deep brownish purple, like the halo of a bruise. My second was Saffron, which is more intense dry than wet. Recently, I’ve been …
Even if I went to Parker 51 Appreciation Class, I don’t think I’d ever warm up to a fountain pen that a) looks like a ballpen and b) basks in looking like a ballpen. However, a Parker 51 with a Nathan Tardiff flex nib is an altogether different animal. (Nathan Tardiff, the man behind the …
I see them often on eBay, but somehow never snagged one. Imagine my joy when TAO shipped me one he’d had lying around in a drawer. (In the same package he also packed a bottle each of almond butter and cashew butter; to a girl who grew up thinking only peanuts could be pounded into …
Why? Because: 1) Pens get cold too. 2) Crochet calms the mind. 3) A handmade sweater is appropriate for a handturned pen. 4) Pen kimonos are more graceful, but less snuggly. 5) It’s tiny, but huggable. I love that Joey made the cap red, the barrel black, and crocheted in a red “end jewel.” The …
I’m blind without my glasses. I don’t have prescription goggles. Therefore, I am blind in the water. A corollary of that conclusion is that I cannot take decent photos on any beach, and therefore rely on the DMC-LX3’s “intelligent auto” function to clearly see what are only vague shapes and colors to me. I say …
Reposted from Ronan’s twitpic stream, because even if there’s a lot of work for me here in Boracay, there’s been time for lunch, walking on the sand, and smiling in the sun.
If you have a knife, a collection of thin bamboo sticks originally meant to be home decor, and an idle mind, you can make your own bamboo pen. Carve diagonally into the tip of the bamboo (if you didn’t pick yours up from a home store, but from your backyard, you’ll have to dry it …
“It’s not you, it’s me.” That statement has justified the ending of a thousand relationships. In my case, it signified a beginning. I put up my bronze celluloid Moore 94-A for sale last year. It’s a good-looking pen, around the size of a Pelikan M400. I didn’t bond with it as I’d hoped. The Maniflex …