Pen Stuff And Giggles

Babies are always cute but some have a brightness and charm that is engaging beyond the usual. Nash is one of them. The pen links aren’t bad either.

• The Well-Appointed Desk: 12 Days of Inkmas: Day 1 – TWSBI 1791 Part 1: Pink and Prairie Green
• Fountain Pen Love: What Are The Best Fountain Pen Friendly Notebooks For Bullet Journaling?
• Mountain of Ink: Ink Review #986: Diamine Scribble Purple
• The Finer Point: Using Hoarded Notebooks
• Crónicas Estilográficas: Japanese Skylines
• Deccan Herald: In memory of my father’s pens
• Nick Stewart: My top 12 inks for 2019
• The Pelikan’s Perch: Edelstein Ink of the Year 2020 – Moonstone
• Just for giggles, Nash talking to his Daddy

Assorted Links For A Breezy Sunday

Need a break from raking those leaves? Grab a cuppa, put your feet up and read on…

• Food And Drug Administration: Incompetence and More Incompetence (My rant for the week.)
• Yafa Tour and outlet items
• Nicole Duke’s Easy and Free DIY Fall Decoration
• Field Notes Leather Cover
• Jackson’s Art Blog covers an Inkophile post
• Anders Andersson: The Magic Colors (I had no idea how this would end.)
• Hungry Artist Will Letter for Lunch
• Facebook’s ‘Safety Check’ lets friends know you’re OK when disaster hits
• 1-minute Microwave Quiche in a Mug (1 1/2 to 2 minutes for two eggs in an extra tall mug)
• Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project
• Could “Copenhagen Wheel” reinvent the urban commute?
• Draw Tip Tuesday – Lettering for your Art Journal
• How to refill a Pentel Brush Pen with Sumi ink

Sunday Links With A Serving Of Chocolate

Might be too much food in this lot, but it’s balanced by a fountain pen link if you can find it…

• America’s Best Chocolate Shops
• The Best Mac and Cheese
• 11 insanely cheesy ways to eat grilled cheese
• Metropolitan Museum of Art – Elizabethan Armor Collection
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Field Notes for Memory Keeping
• I Love Coffee: Your Brain on Beer vs Coffee
• Tyler Dahl: CTF’s HitList Notebook
• Kim Komando: Is your cable modem the fastest money can buy?
• Capital One to credit card customers: We’ll visit you anywhere, any time
• Enterprising
• ‘Pay Your Taxes Now or Be Arrested’

A Bunch Of Links Including Your Favorites And My Lists

By number of page views, these posts were voted favorites for 2012:

• Field Notes Journals or Moleskine Cahiers
• The Rhodia Webnotebook vs Moleskine Journal Showdown
• Favorite Fountain Pens
• The Ink Blotter, A Dirty Little Secret
• Favorite Inks
• Handwriting Tutorials from Caliken
• The Kaweco Classic Sport, A Modern Pocket Pen
• Pelikan Edelstein Ink
• Favorite Stationery
• Favorite Brand Of Fountain Pen Ink – The Poll Results
• So What’s The Deal With Iron Gall Ink
• Big And Bold Namiki Falcon

Note that my favorite inks, fountain pens, stationery, and matches lists were updated today.

According to WordPress,

Crunchy numbers

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

In 2012, there were 119 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 506 posts.

The busiest day of the year was December 15th with 838 views. The most popular post that day was Best Fountain Pen Product You Don’t Own.

The top referring sites were

1. Google Reader
2. penaddict.com
3. inknouveau.com
4. blogs.com
5. twitter.com

Most active commenters were

• 1 BT Irwin 46 comments
• 2 justdaveyb 14 comments
• 3 kp 12 comments
• 4 Bruno Taut 8 comments

A huge thank you to all who visited, linked to, or commented at An Inkophile’s Blog. You are THE BEST!