I Love Notebooks

I love notebooks. Who doesn't? The scent and feel of fresh paper is just heavenly. In kindergarten, I remember asking people (my teachers, mostly) for notebooks in exchange for my artworks: sketches, colored cliparts, etc. A pocket Golden Gate Bridge* notebook was a delight at that time. Or a writing notebook with a cartoon character on the cover. My favorite notebooks then were those with Little Twin Stars and Rainbow Brite covers. Sadly I wasn't...

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GPW #3: Uni-Ball Signo Gelstick

Here’s GPW#3: Uni-Ball Signo Gelstick 0.7 in Blue and BlackAfter missing GPW for two weeks, it’s back today with Uni-Ball pens.I got the Signo Gelstick pens from Office Warehouse, the store that also sells Schneider pens and Eagle notebooks. After buying them, I put them in my plastic pen case together with a lot of other pens and left them there, without even trying any of them.Weekends ago (yes, it has been that long), while I was looking for pens...

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A Parker Comes By

Before I got so smitten by white fountain pens, I wished to focus my collection on Parkers, in honor of the maroon Parker Vector which happens to be my first FP. As I read the available literature about Parker pens, I realized the vastness of the sea I was letting myself into. Let me just say that I got very intimidated by the number of pens I must get to legitimize a collection. And so I became enamored with white pens and been like that since I...

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Ink Review: Aurora Blue

I've been getting fountain pens for a while now, and I have several bottles of inks with me, including the two Private Reserve inks I got last year. Despite the variety of inks I got, I have not taken the time to write about them, or post reviews.Last weekend, I got hold of a bottle of Aurora Blue and immediately filled my white Schneider Base pen with it. I tried it on my Moleskine first, then I tried it on another notebook with a completely different...

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GPW #2: Pilot Coletos

Here's Gel Pen(s) of the Week (GPW) #2: Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coletos.Alas, here's my foray into the world of multi-pens. :)Long after its release, I've seen photos and read reviews of the Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto from many pen blogs and websites. During that time, I was seriously into populating my meager fountain pen collection, that I did not pay too much attention into this new multi-pen from Pilot. I wasn't (and still am) too fond of multi-pens, and this...

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