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Collecting Antique Pens
- Noodler's new Ahab pen... December 13, 2011For me, it's a winner! After watching Brian Goulet's videos on how to clean, disassemble, and tweak your Noodler's pens, I LOVE my regular flex pens too, but the only drawback was how quickly I ran out of ink when sketching. Flex nibs just DO use more ink, that's the nature of the beast...and the sm ... […]
- FABULOUS ANTIQUE 1800′s SILVER PLATED HIP FLASK ORNATE ENGRAVED DESIGN ALL OVER December 8, 2011FABULOUS ANTIQUE SILVER PLATED HIP FLASK WITH ORNATE ENGRAVED DESIGN ALL OVER. A great piece and quite unusual this Original Antique Silver Plated Hip Flask dating to the 1800's. It has a great curved shape and is covered on both sides with an amazing engraved design of leaves. It has a central cart ... […]
- Fountain Pens and Flexible Nibs November 22, 2011Ballpoint pens are boring. There. I said it. One of the reasons why I love fountain pens is because of the variety that surrounds them. You have pens made of gold, of rubber, of wood, of steel, of silver, of plastics of various kinds, you have steel nibs and gold nibs of all kinds of writing styles ... […]
- meanderings from my kitchen November 2, 2011random. banking thing got fixed. wont dwell. i was right and proved so. hanging on to hope for overtime for kent this weekend. debating asking my neighbor to loan me 375$ for one week. no doubt she can do it, and dont want to ask. lottery goddess not responding. pondering job interview i have next w ... […]
- Thank You: All Of You October 31, 2011Wow...how have you been blogging buddies? I've been...well, I'll explain. There's been a lot of development on my end, and I bet you all have no idea how much you had to do with it. Here, I'll break it down for you. Remember about 8 months ago when I started blogging on a complete whim? No? Well tha ... […]
- What's New At PSQ Week of September 12 September 16, 2011New Wool Felt Ornaments from Rachels of Greenfield! The Witch Is In and we kitted her! Great new batik quilt from an easy/fabulous pattern - Fractions! Halloween is coming. Be ready with this new pattern from Patchabilties! And...we have kits! More kits for Xanadu are now available and they are so c ... […]
- Vintage Fountain Pens August 9, 2011The primary sensible fountain pen was patented by Lewis Waterman in 1884. Fountain pens had been the first kind of pens for use by men. However, the oldest surviving fountain pen belonged to a Frenchman named M.Bion dated to 1702. Vintage fountain pens are prized possessions and are collector’s item ... […]
- Fountain Pen Q & A! July 5, 2011This is not our normal Artist's Journal Workshop post, and we have one of our readers to thank for that! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Regular Reader Chris Fitzgerald asked some terrific questions about fountain pens, and since we've had a number of recent posts about several types, I decide ... […]
- Christmas dishes Fountain Pens Are Beautiful And Functional November 26, 2010Fountain pens are nothing new as they have been around for more than a thousand years.They are thought to have first been invented in Egypt, as people wanted to write with pens that did not leak and stain heir clothes with ink. They were invented to consist of a nib that was connected to a reservoir ... […]