MYSTERY INK ORDER YOUTUBE ~ So cool – a customer has posted a video featuring A Pen Lovers Paradise.  So very exciting!  Thank you Logan from Curated Avalon!  This was so awesome! You can find the Noodlers 54th Massachusetts ink here:  https://www.penloversparadise.com/product/noodlers-ink-54th-massachusetts/   The post MYSTERY INK ORDER YOUTUBE appeared first on Pens, Fountain Pens, Writing Instruments, Ink, Stationery, Office Supplies | A Pen Lovers Paradise ..read more

THANKSGIVING 2020 Well folks another year has come and almost gone and we will be so glad to bid this year farewell; adios; so long; good bye, etc.  It has been such a cray year what with the pandemic and…well I think that alone has made the crazy real.  A pandemic in my lifetime; who’d have ever thought it?!  While I deeply believe there is much more to this than meets the eye, I will not get into all of that here. I will be closed for the Thanksgiving weekend to spend the holiday with my mom (my last living immediate family).  Yes there are still cousins, the hubby, etc ..read more

MOUNTAIN SUNSET See a mountain sunset every chance you get… So I decided to close shop for a few days and visit my mother as I had not seen her since Christmas 2019.  With all the craziness of 2020, travel was difficult; even across the state.   Mom lives in the mountains of Virginia and the view there is so different from the ocean views here. There is nothing quite as spectacular as a mountain sunset.  It is inspiring and calming yet energizing at the same time.  We were blessed to see a few of these beauties while we were there. It was nice to just chill out for a f ..read more

ALONG CAME A VIRUS… Along came a virus… And sat down beside us… We never even knew what we had. And the out of the blue things began to close And the nightly news would disclose The number of folks that were dead. Our shops, schools and churches shut down Our salons were not around And our hair began to grow long. We were told to stay home Do not get out and roam And the invisible enemy came along. We surrendered our rights And yes without a fight And stayed sequestered tight in our homes. We wore masks when we ventured out And we really just wanted to shout Set us free! Set us free! Let us ro ..read more

NATIONAL HANDWRITING DAY Today is Thursday, January 23, 2020 and it’s National Handwriting Day!  Try writing your notes today or just write a note to someone you love.  It would be like an early Valentine surprise!  Write the grocery list instead of putting in on your phone and then cross the items off the list when you buy them; it will give you a sense of accomplishment. I’ve always felt there was a connection with writing and brain function.  I know back in the day when I was in school – yes many, many years ago! – I always tried to take notes in class; handwritten notes written in cursive ..read more

SMALL MOM-AND-PUP PEN SHOP Small mom-and-pup pen shop featured in article from Inside Business in the Virginian-Pilot: https://www.pilotonline.com/inside-business/vp-ib-pen-paradise-0930-20190925-mqigt4icybdc5h44vmo73zupve-story.html We know we have been quite hidden from view for at least a couple of months.  We’ve been hidden by the construction at the restaurant which can’t open soon enough.  It will be The Heirloom if it ever happens.  We know these construction vehicles and workers have been clogging the parking lot and the storage unit has up blacked completely from the road.  And they d ..read more

Pilot FriXion pens are just too much fun! Write and erase ~ that's correct; an erasable pen and an erasable highlighter! Great stocking stuffers. Great selection here at A Pen Lovers Paradise. www.penloversparadise.com #penloversparadise #pens #writinginstruments #pilotfrixion #erasablepens #hiliters #highlighters Posted by Pam Cochran Huynh on Friday, November 15, 2019 PILOT FRIXION PENS AND HIGHLIGHTERS With these pens and highlighters you can write and erase your mistakes!  You read that correctly – erasable pens and highlighters.  Pens are available in a retractable version or ..read more

SMALL MOM-AND-PUP SHOP We were very fortunate and blessed this week as Sandra J. Pennecke from Inside Business (connected to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper) wrote an article about the small mom-and-pup shop:   https://www.pilotonline.com/inside-business/vp-ib-pen-paradise-0930-20190925-mqigt4icybdc5h44vmo73zupve-story.html I love the heading “small store in Virginia Beach may be something to write home about”.  She hit the nail on the head with that as this is just a small mom-and-pup pen shop and we are all about writing. We have been trying to get the word out about our shop for years now so ..read more

TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA BEACH It was an ordinary day until it wasn’t…as the tragic events of Friday, May 31, 2019 unfolded, we had no idea of the carnage that would be left behind. It began as an ordinary day and then around 4:30 PM I was told “there is an active shooter in our building” by someone on the front lawn of my shop, which is located directly across the street from “that building”.  Building 2 as it is known, is part of the municipal center complex.  I, of course, locked up shop and headed home which is a couple of miles down the road.  As it turns out it was a mass shooting and left 12 ..read more