My spring special edition Field Notes subscription, the Utility Edition, arrived yesterday, and I really like this one, which was a nice surprise. It also seems to have paper that’s good with fountain pens.
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Category: Paper
Breaking Out the Nanami Journal
Happy is any Christmas involving family, food, and a Star Wars movie. But let’s not forget my first chance to unwrap and try the Nanami Writer Journal.
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On Journaling, and Crowd Sourcing Some Help With That
I am bad at journals. It’s just not a natural fit with my personality. Or my schedule. As a result, despite giving it the occasional college try, I’ve only journaled occasionally over the years.
But I’m kicking off a new, more dedicated journal phase. Because I’m working on a project involving journals and fountain pens. And I will soon get to use my new, beautiful Seven Seas journal.
Yet, despite that little kick-start, I foresee reaching the same stumbling block as always: me being bad at journals. So I could really use some help, if not to turn into a master journal writer, then at least to make my fountain pen and journals project better.
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First Impressions: Nanami Paper Seven Seas Writer Journal
So this is the Writer from Nanami Paper, which is going to be a journal for me.
After Christmas, of course.
Now, I am far from a journal expert. I’m not even a real journal writer. The Writer made it onto my Christmas list because I’m doing a project involving journals, and I need to learn something about them. But the Writer is very appealing.
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A Christmas Present That the Fountain Pens Will Enjoy
Before I let made my husband wrap my fountain-pen related Christmas present, I leafed through it, and I took a few photos. Because I get the mail first.
This is paper, which isn’t something I usually consider a gift. But I’m doing a project on journals and I thought I could get a good one, or at least a premium one, to see what that’s all about.
It’s pretty good looking, I have to say.
Field Notes Black Ice Edition: A Brief Review
The newest Field Notes limited edition is called Black Ice, and it’s neat-looking, though it’s probably not going to be one of my favorite Field Notes ever. And, if you’ll excuse the pun, I think the paper may leave fountain-pen users a little cold. But if there are notebook “gear heads,” I think they’ll like the Black Ice, because it looks really cool.
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I Came, I Saw, I Bought a Little: My Mostly Measly Ohio Pen Show Purchases
Okay, it’s a slim haul, but I’m sure you’ll identify with me saying that I still spent more than I intended at the Ohio Pen Show. I didn’t really intend to buy anything. And, yes, feel free to be aghast: there aren’t a lot of fountain pen things in the pile.
That’s because I went to the show with my 16-year-old daughter, and there is no way she could have spent two days shopping for fountain pens. Which is fine. I actually like other pens and pencils, too.
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Field Notes L.L. Bean Edition
Things I Like: Field Notes
Wheat Straw Paper: Yes, It Sheens
When I blogged yesterday about my new Step Forward wheat straw paper, a reader asked whether it shows sheen. I wasn’t sure; I’d been seeing some, but not a huge amount. And part of that has been due to our cloudy, rainy weather. And part of that is I don’t have a sheening ink in a wet pen right now.
But I have good news. Yesterday afternoon, for a brief few minutes, the sun burst through. And so did the sheen. That first photo shows Sailor Tokiwa-Matsu, an evergreen ink with a lot of sheen, on the Step Forward wheat straw paper.
Here it is on the edge of the little notebook, where I fortuitously had wiped off a messy nib.
I don’t think the wheat straw paper is necessarily a power sheener, like Tomoe River paper. But it’s good to know that if you put enough ink down, and it’s the right ink, there will be sheen.
Fountain Pen Follies 