Happy Fountain Pen Day! I'm excited about how these turned out. After visiting Butler Stationery with friends all morning, find me at The Gentleman Stationer (in Nashville, TN) the rest of the day.
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I am live playing Blue Prince for a Pen Addict After Dark stream. Come say hi! twitch.tv/penaddict
St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Papa J Studio Floral Finial Fountain Pen https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/29/st-jude-milestone-giveaway-papa-j-studio-floral-finial-fountain-pen
Misfill, Sign Pen Edition https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/28/misfill-sign-pen-edition
Screenshot of progress bars on St Jude campaign page on Tiltify showing about 1 day remaining with $218 of $250 matching donations used, and $1,742 raised so far with a goal of $1,800.
There's one day left of a matching donation with $32 remaining, and my custom reward items will be available at least through the end of September!
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Handmade A6 booklets made with twelve different fountain pen friendly papers and a medium brown cover, one side has 12 stained glass floral designs to color or paint, and the other side with labeled blank pages for writing tests.
Handmade booklets about 4 inches square with a blush cover and two copies each of 12 stained glass floral designs to color or paint, on fountain pen friendly b7 Natural paper.
Small papers about 4 inches square with stained glass floral and sea creatute designs to color or paint, printed on fountain pen friendly b7 Natural paper.
It's still September and I'm thankful for all who've joined me and @relay.fm to support St. Jude. I've put up a matching donation up to $250 through Mon, sent out several new thank you rewards, and look forward to more special streams this month—come hang out on Twitch!
oliveoctopus.ink/stjude.htm
Podcastathon Is Live! https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/19/podcastathon-is-live
In The Shop: Gamify Your Life Zine
We have just listed our new zine: Gamify Your Life Players Handbook (2nd Edition) ($12 for zine, $20 for kit)-- "Make it Fun to Get Sh*t Done". This zine was created to accompany my workshops of the same name but I've packed it full of enough information that I…
It’s Podcastathon Time! https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/16/its-podcastathon-time
#12PenPersonQuestions https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/14/12penpersonquestions
So excited to read Ana's answers to this question list! 💚🩷💚
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St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - River City Pen Co. Inkthrower Fountain Pen https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/2/st-jude-milestone-giveaway-river-city-pen-co-inkthrower-fountain-pen
The Pen Addict for St. Jude - Let’s Do This! https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/1/the-pen-addict-for-st-jude-lets-do-this
For the kids
Since 2019, the @relay.fm community has raised over $4 million for the life-saving work of St. Jude. When I stepped foot on its campus with my son in 2009, I had no idea where life was taking us, but I'm thankful it's here.
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Misfill, Emboss Edition https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/7/13/misfill-emboss-edition
Notebook Review: Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book: Log of Elixir/Atlantis Edition
Initially, I was just going to post and review about the new(er) Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book: The Log of Elixir ($31). Jesi posted a review awhile ago about the Log of Atlantis ($28) awhile back so I…
No worries on that front, this pen was bought in person at my local stationery shop, a collaboration between The Gentleman Stationer and Hinze pens.
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This is a collaboration from my local shop, The Gentleman Stationer, and Hinze pens. It's my first micarta pen, a material of layers of fabric or fiber in resin that will patina with use. A pocket pen with a dark purple metal section and light purple nib.
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Uncapped fountain pen, The Gentleman Stationer x Hinze Taschenstift pocket pen in purple CrazyFiber material called Violet Tendencies with dark gray purple metal section and pale lilac anodized nib, sitting on top of A5 notebook with writing sample of multiple purple inks, with the slightly gray purple Diamine Vivaldi ink featured in the center.
This was a recent pen acquisition to celebrate crossing some big things off the to-do list, and some small but cool things that have happened recently.
TGS x Hinze Taschenstift in CrazyFiber Violet Tendencies (M)
Diamine Vivaldi
Eight 18ml frosted glass bottles with TWSBI fountain pen inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink. Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir, open to page with design of roses climbing up a wall and a window looking out to a castle on a cliff, a ship, and the sky filled with a crescent moon and stars, all painted with those 8 inks, and a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles with colorful inks in the wells.
Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir, page with design of roses climbing up a wall and a window looking out to a castle on a cliff, a ship, and the sky filled with a crescent moon and stars, all painted with TWSBI inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink.
Closeup of a large rose painted pale orange on a page in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir.
Eight 18ml frosted glass bottles with TWSBI inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink, corresponding Col-o-dex ink swatch cards for each ink, and a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles with colorful inks in the wells.
Bright inks may not be my wheelhouse, but despite being pleasantly surprised by the character in these TWSBI inks when first swatched I've rarely reached for them since and they deserve better! The bottles are nice too. I used 8 TWSBI inks to paint in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book.
I've been testing out using the Notsu vertical To-Do cards and horizontal Week cards (available at my local pen shop, gentlemanstationer.com), and currently these are leading as the potential replacement for my Hobonichi Weeks next year.
I'm enjoying it! I'm glad the show has found ways to adapt the inner monologue and perspective of Murderbot fairly well. It's challenging to navigate the change from being a "ride-along" in the main character's POV in a book to a more external view of that character and their world in a show.
Yep! Watched the first two episodes last night.
Closeup of a notebook page with a rough sketch of Murderbot, the main character from All Systems Red by Martha Wells, with the quote "I love you, armor, and I'm never leaving you again.", all in red fountain pen ink (Diamine Red Robin).
<raises hand>
The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir open to a page with sketches of birds and a scene of a garden with a large gazebo with trees behind and a pool of water in front with water lilies, a large tiered bird bath, several birds including a peacock, and a cat, all painted with 4 Dominant Industry inks. Next to the book are 3 bottles of fountain pen ink and a paint palette that looks like a cluster of bubbles with the remains of drops of ink. Inks used: Bog Sage (Scented, Top Note), a bright light blue Ylang Ylang (Scented, Middle Note), a bright yellow Duftrausch (Scented, Bottom Note), a muted gray pink Allegory (Standard), a dark indigo gray
A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with a peacock sitting on a large vase in the middle of a pool of water with lily pads, painted with fountain pen inks.
A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with four birds on a large tiered bird bath and sculpture in a pool of water with lily pads, painted with fountain pen inks.
A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with three birds and ribbons around rectangles of ink swatches and the names of each ink written nearby. Bog Sage (Scented, Top Note), a bright light blue Ylang Ylang (Scented, Middle Note), a bright yellow Duftrausch (Scented, Bottom Note), a muted gray pink Allegory (Standard), a dark indigo gray
I painted with three scented inks from Dominant Industry in the Ink Archiving book today.
Bog Sage (Top Note)
Ylang Ylang (Middle Note)
Duftrausch (Bottom Note)
I also used Allegory to have a darker shade to work with.
So, in a rare on-camera appearance I talked with my friend Derek about fountain pens, paper, and of course inks. youtu.be/QUNFyzVwWXQ
Colorverse Maryland Blue Crab Ink Review https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/5/5/colorverse-maryland-blue-crab-ink-review
A desk top full of ceramic and plastic ink palettes with the dregs of colorful fountain pen inks, several sheets of paper with colorfully painted ink ponies and flowers and an example of a letter with a colorful ink wash background. Other tools on the desk include water brushes and fountain pens.
All my palettes had leftover dried out ink and there are several Yamamoto papers I've only spent a little bit of time with, so I got out a pile of waterbrushes and pencils and pens and ponies and went to town on stream today.
...I've now added to my TGS shopping list, and am off to wash palettes.
Waterbrush coloring with fountain pen inks in the Dominant Industry Elixir book.
Today's activity at the #InkPonyClub.
