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Gift Guide for the Write Curious

December 6, 2015

Welcome to my 2015 gift guide!  This is meant for that person in your life who has taken a mild interest into your writing instrument/stationary hobby, but it seems like they might need that extra push to explore it a bit themselves.  Most of the things I talk about are under $20 and can be mixed and matched to give complete "packages" up to any price point you desire.

Here are links to products that I mention in the video (none of these are affiliate or sponsored links -  I recommend certain retailers because I prefer them to faceless, money-grubbing entities like Amazon):

Pens

  • Pilot Metropolitan, via Jetpens or Goulet Pens
  • Pilot Kakuno, via Jetpens
  • Kaweco Sport, via Jetpens or Goulet Pens
  • Pilot Juice, via Jetpens
  • Zebra Sarasa Clip, via Jetpens

Pencils

  • Palomino Collection Pack, via Pencils.com
  • Jetpens Wooden Pencil Sampler, via Jetpens
  • Tombow Mono Drawing Pencil Set, via Pencils.com
  • Literally everything, via CW Pencils

Paper

  • Field Notes, via pretty much any retailer that sells decent writing instruments or FN HQ
  • Write Notepads, via their website
  • Story Supply Co, via their website
  • Leuchtturn 1917 notebooks, via Goulet Pens

I hope this was helpful!  If you are reading this in the future (you crazy time-traveller, you) and the links are broken, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix the problems.

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Pen Talk #1 - Etsy shop, what's in my bag, and buying a second pen

April 28, 2015

Let's have a bit of a chat about this and that and whatever...

Important links:
My etsy shop
My unboxing video of the Craft & Lore Field Notes cover
My unboxing video of the Tactile Turn Mover

Important times, if you only want to watch a section of the video:
1:13 = details about etsy shop
4:24 = loadout/what's in my bag
13:35 = rambling about buying a second fountain pen (if you want the tldr version, here it is: I'm of the school of thought that you should try multiple less expensive pens before committing to a larger purchase.  Wanna know why?  Watch the video.)

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Sometimes, I take pictures of things...

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New podcast is up! Wherein I only talk about ~one~ project and why I’m going to shift my focus to being a very monogamous knitter for a while. Curious? Links to everywhere you can find it are in my profile. :-)
The body is finished! I kitchenered all 221 stitches of ribbing to the bottom because apparently I hate myself *a lot* but I really like how clean the bottom edge looks.

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