Clairefontaine 1951 Staple-bound Notebook

A couple summers ago, I reached an epiphany one night while studying (obviously, I was not focusing as I should):  I should use notebooks I have acquired over the years for note-taking and so I will not need to ink about 100 pens to do test pages.  Like many other fountain pen lovers, I tend to have

Hello Again

I am resurfacing from my long blogging hiatus.  The second half of last year was anything but boring, fully packed with events and projects.  In the midst of projects and deadlines, I still managed to get inky fingers and sneak in a bit of time for stationery perusing, which can be detected in my final

Montblanc Meisterstück Blue Hour Twilight Blue

Montblanc (MB) Meisterstück Blue Hour Twilight Blue baffled me at first.  Besides a relatively long name, I cannot quite pinpoint which shade of blue it is.  After I revealed its “true color,” I become mesmerized by the shade, as enigmatic as blue hour of the day. A little bit about the ink: Color:  blue with

Monologue Notebooks

Exploring new notebooks is probably one of the most fun activities because it means a series of experiment:  what kind of media does the paper take?  How does the paper feel?  What is the notebook range that a given brand offer? Grandluxe is a company based in Singapore that offer several lines of notebook, stationery

De Atramentis Dianthus

  Here comes the first post in a search for that perfect purple.  De Atramentis Dianthus in the strictest sense is not purple, but a magenta with a bit of purple hue.  It has sticking resemblance to Rohrer and Klingner’s Solferino; the difference lies is Dianthus is a mangenta with more pink, while Solferino with

In the Mood for Purple

Purple is my favorite color for as long as I can remember.  In this context, receiving a batch of purple ink to test out is almost a gift from above.  Since this friend is interested in finding a particular shade of purple, having swabs as reference would be helpful.  All ink names are written with

Sakura Arch Foam Eraser

For as long as I can remember, I always have an obsession with erasers.  At one point during my elementary school days, I have always have a whole drawer full of Sanrio erasers (by the way, they are not only cute, but also erase graphite rather effortlessly).  Even though I do not use pencils as

Currently Inked, 2/28

Ink and pen rotation is something that has not been featured here for awhile.  This would be something little that I can do between readings to make up for the rather erratic and irregular blogging intervals.   One thing that strikes me of this rotation is the variety of width.  I specifically ink a flex

Kickstarter: CursiveLogic

I have never learned cursive properly.  When I first came to the US, I have passed the age when cursive was taught.  While the objective of English as Second Language classes is to help students becoming fluent in their adoptive language, cursive was not part of it.  Despite that, cursive posed as a curious intellectual

Celebrating National Handwriting Day with Inkly Cards

I have always had trouble bridging the digital and the analog.  While the calendar app on my smartphone is covered in imaginary weeds, my good ol’ paper planner thrives with all types of scribbles.  Though the calculator app is readily there for me to use, I stubbornly balance my check with a pencil and a