by P. M. Starr | Jun 29, 2024 | Aesthetics & Style, BRANDS, cartridge, Ink, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Packaging & Presentation, Pilot, Purple
Purple Pilot Ink Splurged on my first taste of Pilot’s high-end Iroshizuku fountain pen ink: Beautiful new box of 6 Pilot Iroshizuku ink cartridges: $14 – MSRP > $11.20 @Goldspot.(Don’t worry; PleasureWriting.com is NOT actually printed on the...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 22, 2024 | Fountain Pens, My Experience, paper, Parker, Pink, Taccia
Discovered the pleasure of bringing a fountain pen with me on walk to the library, but no notebook. Relying instead on those tiny thin wafers of white paper, cramming as many pretty words as I could copy from a book of poetry I thought would make me want to barf...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 23, 2024 | Ferris Wheel Press, Fountain Pens, Grey, Inspiration, Journaling, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Orange, Parker, Platinum, Purple, Quotations & Excerpts, White, Wisdom
National Gratitude Day 2024 Spent some time pleasure writing by hand for National Handwriting Day with this Michael J. Fox quote: “With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.” – Michael J. Fox I belive it is true, that gratitude is spiritual fuel...
by P. M. Starr | Sep 30, 2023 | Buying & Browsing, Challenges, Dip Pens, Doodling & Drawing, Journaling, Markers, MINE, My Experience, Pentel, Tombow
2013. For awhile our small town had a full-sized multi-room warehouse art store. And I compulsively bought some things, even though I am not an “artist”. I bought a sketchbook. I bought black india ink and nibs and a nib-holder. I bought a waterbrush. I...
by P. M. Starr | Sep 2, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Blue, Journaling, MINE, My Experience, My Fountain Pens, My Spaces, Parker, Pink, Pure Pleasure, Silver, Top Flight
Idyllic images from the height of summer, journaling at a picnic table in the middle of a perfectly-square park. I did do a lot of journaling this summer, but I can’t say much of it was this picturesque. In fact, this may be the only time I took out a notebook...
by P. M. Starr | Aug 27, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Buying & Browsing, Fountain Pens, Platinum, Special Edition, Under $10, Wishlist
Just when I was finally ready the other day to buy a bundle of pens from Platinum’s second Preppy Wa Collection, I see that the THIRD collection has dropped! And it looks more-fancy / less “cute” than pens in the earlier collections, maybe embodying...
