Blog - Pen Boutique

I'm going to try to make this week's blog article short and sweet. I've been meaning to write about Montblanc's Starwalker pens for a while, and the new Space Blue series finally pushed me over th...

I hope you enjoyed my article last week, where I talked about my experiences preparing for this year's DC Pen Show and collaborating with Leonardo Pens. Saturday was my first time working a table ...

If you read my "Laura's First Pen Show!" blog article back in March, you know the 2023 Baltimore Pen Show was a really big deal for me and an experience I will never forget. When I got home from t...

As I'm sure you can imagine, working at a pen store can be very dangerous. There's always the possibility you'll spill ink all over yourself, suffer a severe paper cut, get stabbed in the hand wit...

Why Choose Montblanc Inks? This week's topic was actually suggested to me by one of our store regulars, Essandra. We were discussing favorite inks, and she brought up Montblanc and said she though...

This week's article will be a shorter one, but it's a topic I'm extremely enthusiastic about:  Anderillium Inks.  I was given the exciting assignment to try all sixteen inks from Anderillium's cur...

Getting Inspired At first I wasn't sure what to write about this week. I'd stayed up too late finishing my Taccia blog article, so I was tired and in kind of a rebellious mood. Every idea I though...

Ever since I met TACCIA Founder Shu-Jen Lin at the Baltimore/Washington International Pen Show in March, I've been excited about TACCIA and wanted to write about it. TACCIA (pronounced "Ta-ssha") i...

 THE ULTIMATE TWSBI FOUNTAIN PEN GUIDE. TWSBI Passion and TWSBI Trepidation I know this sounds weird, but I have never owned a TWSBI before, and was actually kind of scared of them. It's hard to e...