by P. M. Starr | Jul 27, 2022 | Aesthetics & Style, BENU, Brown, Colors, Fountain Pens, Gold, Goulet Pens, Lamy, Pure Pleasure, Visconti, Wishlist
Best Brown Fountain Pens via Drew Brown The color BROWN. My love of brown is a huge reason I dove deeper into fountain pens, especially my desire to ALWAYS be equipped with brown ink. So be ye not surprised I love this video “The Best Brown Pens – According to...
by P. M. Starr | Jul 16, 2022 | Aesthetics & Style, Buying & Browsing, Colors, Fountain Pens, Goldspot, Green, Investing, Pink, Silver, Visconti, Wishlist
Pink Blush: Visconti Opera Demo Carousel It’s a good thing Goldspot doesn’t have one of those buy-now/pay-later installment setups or I might have impulsively spent $375.00 on a Visconti Opera Demo Carousel fountain pen tonight. I’m not tempted by giants like the...
by P. M. Starr | Mar 3, 2022 | Fountain Pens, Ink, Journaling, MATERIALS, My Colors, My Experience, Philosophy, Pure Pleasure, Wisdom
A Break from Feeling Bad The other day a good day that started out full of dreamy potential and high productivity turned … bad. Probably because I put too much pressure myself to make the day perfect; when I failed to live up to dreamy perfection I felt very sour and...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 26, 2022 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Clear, Colors, Diplomat, Fountain Pens, Green, Multicolor, My Collection, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Parker, Platinum, Pure Pleasure, Under $10, Under $20, Under $30, Yellow
Fountain Pen Pleasure Trio I love taking these three favorite fountain pens out and seeing them next to each other: Three of my favorite affordable starter fountain pens: left to right – Diplomat Magnum, Platinum Preppy, and Parker Vector I love high-contrast...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 16, 2022 | Aesthetics & Style, Fountain Pens, My Collection, My Experience, Philosophy, Problems
Cheap Practical Pleasures = Not Nerdy Enough? More and more I’m coming to accept that I am not a huge nerd fan or collector the way other people are. I just don’t seem to have the mindset of other fountain pen aficionados. I love things a lot — music, movies,...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 8, 2022 | Black, Blue, conversion, Curiosity, eyedropper, Filling System, Fountain Pens, My Experience, Platinum, Problems, Under $10
Advanced Mess-Making You know how I say “write more … clean less”? And tell you it’s entirely possible to use affordable fountain pens on a daily basis for DECADES without EVER making an ink mess? It’s totally true! I know because that...