(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.) First and foremost, if you haven’t yet read Sarah’s post on the 2024 Chicago Pen Show, drop what you’re doing and go check it out. I’ll wait. I promise you, it’s worth it and is possibly the best thing you’ll see all week. Then come back once you’re done laughing/crying, and settle in for a much calmer (aka, boring, lol) recap. Prior to the show, I had told Sarah that it’s difficult wr ..read more

Give me all of the Montblanc X Wes Anderson content. Is a feature film too much to ask? Because a three minute short isn’t nearly enough. Myke and I break it down, and eventually get to his new pen design as well. We also get listener feedback on Godzilla and rulers, and I discuss my time with the LAMY AL-Star. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Pen Chalet: Check out this week's special offer, and to get your code for 10% off. Ooni Pizza Ovens: Bring restaurant quality pizza to your home. Discount automatically applied at checkout ..read more

The Chicago Pen Show is always one of my favorite weekends of the year. It's always a ton of fun, and since it's the only pen show I get to go to, it's an obvious highlight on my calendar. Of course, it's always more fun when Brad goes. This year he opted not to attend. This is unacceptable. So we did what we could to fix it. Welcome to the Chicago Pen Show, Brad Edition, aka, this is what you get when you leave me and Kimberly unsupervised. The plan hatched as plans often do, in the Insta DMs. Sarah-Brad, left, and Kimberly-Brad. Co-conspirators extraordinaire. But the plan wouldn't have bee ..read more

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.) We're well into 2024 now, and Lamy have already dropped some special edition colors for the year. For the AL-Star, one of those colors is Aquatic, and it's gorgeous. The Lamy AL-Star Aquatic fountain pen is a special edition of the aluminum line that features a couple of subtle differences (aside from the metal color) that stand out from the standard lineup. The first thing I noticed was the bright blue finial on top of the cap. This is normally black, but Lamy went with a cobalt blue to complement the blue ca ..read more

What do you do when you are the beneficiary of good fortune? You pass that good fortune along! When Enigma Stationery sent me their latest fountain pen release, Special Edition #9 - Mystic Magenta Magic, for a podcast ad, they told me I could keep the pen, and do with it as I please. That’s kind of tough, because this pen couldn’t be more right up my alley, but there was no way I wasn’t sending it out into the world, and into one of your hands. It includes a Broad Jowo #6 nib, and a standard international converter. The rules are the same this week, but I’ve added an additional way to enter b ..read more

(This is a guest Post from Sam Alpert. Sam is a geologist, gamer, and general lover of all things with good, clean design that will last a lifetime.) I was fortunate enough to be able to attend my first pen show ever this year at the Baltimore Washington International Pen Show, or BWIPS for short! One of my biggest objectives was to take advantage of the presence of nib grinders to get at least one of my pens ground. This wouldn’t be my first time having this done, previously I was able to get an architect grind from JJ Lax when he was doing an in-store event for Fountain Pen Day 2023. I loved ..read more

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links: — Pen Show Adventures: 2024 Chicago Pen Show Friday Recap! (The Gentleman Stationer) — Chicago Pen Show 2024: Papier Plume's Faceless Lady (Inkdependence!) — Two Months With $10.98 (The Toasty Times) — The taming of the Scribo, Write Here Africa fountain pen. (Fountain pen blog) — Duty Free Surp ..read more

I’ve become a big fan of A6 sized notebooks, and I often ask myself “Brad, is there any better A6 than the Midori MD?” No, Brad, there is not. I have one to give away this week, featuring a cover by Katsuki Tanaka as part of their 15th Anniversary series, and the winner is: Congrats Zai! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address ..read more

Penedex is your digital pen cup where you can catalog your pen and ink collection, stay on top of your currently inked pens, and prepare for a pen show visit. You can add details to your pen and ink entries, such as nib type, pen material, ink color, shimmer, dry time, photos, and more. Penedex will also keep track of how often you use your items and display a range of statistics about your usage. You can also add pens and inks to a wishlist to save for later, like when attending a pen show. New for 2024 is Penedex’s latest feature, the pen show organizer. If you’re visiting the Chicago Pen S ..read more

(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.) I needed to ink up one more pen before heading to the Chicago Pen Show this weekend so I decided to ink up the Sailor Pro Gear Slim, Summer Rain because I needed a teal blue pen in the pen binder when I realized, gulp, that I was supposed to have done a review of this pen and the ink that Brad got from Dromgoole’s at the Atlanta Pen Show … TWO YEARS AGO! Eek! Better late than never rig ..read more