Ink Drop Soup: Billet Pens and Markers – Kickstarter & GIVEAWAY!
When it comes to Hi-Tec-C pens and Sharpie markers, you’ve got two quality brand lines there with almost endless color choices. With so many colors to choose from, you can never have too many pen...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Billet Pens Kickstarter Electric Blue Update
A most glorious color! Just a quick update to the giveaway and Kickstarter for Billet Pens & Markers — there’s now an electric blue option! It’s currently limited to 10 pens and 5 markers, so if...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Expensive Fountain Pens Just 30 and Below
If you follow my Twitter, you already know about the humorous exchange I overhead at my local pen store. It went like this: “I want an expensive fountain pen.” “What’s your price range?” “Thirty and...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Is This a Trick Question?
This post has too many words and not enough pictures. Hopefully this makes up for it. Some exciting little updates for No Pen Intended (title to this post inspired by the first thing I think whenever...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: The Curious Case of the Moldy Sheaffer
This story begins the slow summer of my first job, when I and my lab-mates tackled the task of cleaning up the lab and discovered, tucked away abandoned in a drawer, a few old Sheaffers that probably...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Pen Chalet Giveaway!
A giveaway that I don’t have to run??? Yes, awesome, sign me up and sign you up, too. The folks at Pen Chalet are having a gift card giveaway which you can enter here. They’re also offering a 10%...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Someone Buy Me One (HMM RULE/ONE Kickstarter)
This Kickstarter for the HMM RULE/ONE is so close to almost funded with six days to go…and it looks so sweet…look at it! It’s magnet close (a feature that was added thanks to backer feedback), and the...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Shout out to Michigan!
If you follow my Twitter, you’d have pieced together that I recently visited Michigan. For those of you not familiar with Michigan, it is a state made up of two landmasses (one shaped like a mitten,...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: The Raleigh Pen Show
Another great pen show was had! It only took me, uh, about a couple months to remember to write about it? Even though I was only able to make it for Friday and Saturday, I saw lots of cool pens, talked...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: The Terror & Triumph of the Bent Nib
I don’t know what happened. I don’t know how it happened. Wednesday, my Pilot Vanishing Point M nib was completely normal. Friday, I clicked the plunger and the nib came out looking like this: You will...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: CursiveLogic
Most Kickstarter projects, at their heart, are a delightfully selfish proposition. I give you money, but you give me a sweet pen, which I will then lord over everyone else in my day-to-day activities....
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: A Couple More Kickstarters
Everywhere, all the time, Kickstarters! I have a few Kickstarterized pens in the wings waiting to be reviewed, but in the meantime, here are a couple more new Kickstarter pens you can choose to throw...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: More Pens to Throw Money At
Two new crowdfunding pens to throw on your radar. Will you risk your hard-earned moneydollars? PERHAPS! First up, the WINKpen. It’s got nine days left and still about $17,000 to go, so I’m starting to...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: CursiveLogic
Most Kickstarter projects, at their heart, are a delightfully selfish proposition. I give you money, but you give me a sweet pen, which I will then lord over everyone else in my day-to-day activities....
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: A Couple More Kickstarters
Everywhere, all the time, Kickstarters! I have a few Kickstarterized pens in the wings waiting to be reviewed, but in the meantime, here are a couple more new Kickstarter pens you can choose to throw...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: More Pens to Throw Money At
Two new crowdfunding pens to throw on your radar. Will you risk your hard-earned moneydollars? PERHAPS! First up, the WINKpen. It’s got nine days left and still about $17,000 to go, so I’m starting to...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: CursiveLogic
Most Kickstarter projects, at their heart, are a delightfully selfish proposition. I give you money, but you give me a sweet pen, which I will then lord over everyone else in my day-to-day activities....
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: A Couple More Kickstarters
Everywhere, all the time, Kickstarters! I have a few Kickstarterized pens in the wings waiting to be reviewed, but in the meantime, here are a couple more new Kickstarter pens you can choose to throw...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: More Pens to Throw Money At
Two new crowdfunding pens to throw on your radar. Will you risk your hard-earned moneydollars? PERHAPS! First up, the WINKpen. It’s got nine days left and still about $17,000 to go, so I’m starting to...
View ArticleInk Drop Soup: Did I Mention the Instagram?
Last DC Pen Show it was brought to my attention that all the cool kids were on Instagram. I promptly went to sign up, realized someone stole my handle before I could sign up, then re-realized the...
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