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I had meant to go for all these walks and park afternoons with the baby this past summer, lounging on a blanket with a bubble tea and a book and a sleeping baby (ha ha but for real) but the summer fle...

On the Saturday before the pen show, we had the pleasure of hosting Esterbrook and Matthew’s Nibworks, and also a visit from Azizah from Gourmet Pens. Plus at the last minute Jon got some pretzels. Wh...

It’s Fountain Pen Day! It comes around once a year, and gives us an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy these things that we love so much.

Our shop is ill-equipped to offer the deepest discounts or to k...

We are so pleased to introduce two new inks to our shop: Dominant Industry Ginger Chicken and Tuna Grey.

We began carrying Dominant Industry inks some time ago. I knew as soon as I held their glass bot...

And so we have coming up a weekend full of pens and pen people and stationery and the thrill of a pen show. We are totally unprepared. I have been putting off promoting this event and/or doing a terri...

 Scriptus is coming again! It’s happening THIS WEEKEND. It certainly did sneak up on us this year. Sunday, October 30th, doors opening at 10, free admission, at the Toronto Reference Library at Yonge a...

It is coming onto the last days of enjoyable fall weather as we move briskly into unpleasantly sharp fall weather and then soon into the long, dark, endless months of winter, buoyed only by the glimme...

Lamy has released this fun Al-Star set, with a pen, an additional grip and a matching notebook. I couldn’t wait! Red is maybe not my colour, although I am Chinese and red is an auspicious colour for Ch...

We are rolling into the last of our outdoor days. Maybe not quite, maybe a few weeks left, several, maybe stretched out into a bit longer if we bundle up, bring a blanket and a coffee out too. It’s ha...

Life has been a lot these days, too much, just enough, not enough.

I’m banishing Caleb and Naomi to the outside world so the baby can nap without their howling and shattering and glee. No one is doing ...