Category: Review

So a while back I went a little crazy and I bought every pen case I was interested in ranging from those recommended on other sites to eBay and Amazon specials that I just liked the look of/was vaguely interested in and one particularly nice case from Japan (12) which turned into the mail order equivalent of a Special Forces selection test. Continue reading “The Bumper Pen Case Review” →

I own quit a few budget pens and I thought it was about time they came under scrutiny. Just to be clear when I say ‘budget pen’ I mean a pen that normally costs less than $, £, €15 and my only criteria is reliability; so if I forget where I have left the pen for a week I can then just pick it up and start writing. Continue reading “Are budget pens worth it?” →

I am an avid collector of notebooks, for me there’s no such thing as too many.

So, I was delighted when I was offered the opportunity to review this notebook as I don’t have any other leather bound notebooks in use, the other notebook in the picture is one I collected but it is, at best guess, somewhere around one hundred years old, so it’s retired. It’s in the picture because the Fortessa notebook reminded me of it. Continue reading “Creoly – Fortessa Notebook” →

This is more a mini review of the Lamy Vista and its $2.00 Chinese second cousin twice removed, the Jinhao 599. I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Lamy’s in so far as I know they are good pens and therefore feel obliged to have one amongst my collection of demonstrators but ultimately they just don’t inspire me. Continue reading “Lamy vs ‘Lamy’” →

For some time I have been looking for a small leather notebook cover for my Field Notes/Moleskine pocket notebooks and finding one a sensible price has been something of a quest, until a stumbled across the Creoly cover on Amazon. Continue reading “Creoly Pocket Notebook Cover” →