Review: Barnes and Noble Rainbow Sketchbook
This super generic and indistinct sketchbook from Barnes and Noble is pretty good, actually.
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Category: Supplies
Review: Peter Pauper Press Large Premium Sketchbook
Due to its first-glance similarities, the large premium sketchbook by Peter Pauper Press was one of the first sketchbooks I picked up in an attempt to find a replacement for the discontinued Punctuate sketchbook.
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The Best Sketchbook Ever, RIP
Some time ago, Barnes and Noble discontinued its Punctuate brand hardcover sketchbook. I’d feared this day for a long time. Here is a eulogy for my favourite sketchbook, the best sketchbook ever. I’ll miss it a lot!!
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Review: Daiso Graphoo Calligraphy marker
The Daiso Graphoo Calligraphy marker is a double-sided marker with a chisel tip and a brush tip, and there are five sets of two markers, for a total of ten colors. At your standard Daiso price of $1.50 (+tax) a pair, they’re a great deal, but they’re also just great in general.
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Review: Daiso x Hauser fountain pen
Yes, there’s another new Daiso fountain pen. A plastic barrel, cartridge-fill pen at Daiso’s typical price of $1.50, I was especially eager to try it out after the Rosso Bianco turned out to be a rebranded original Daiso fountain pen.
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Review: Daiso’s $5 “Rosso Bianco” fountain pen
The “regular” Daiso fountain pen has been in my rotation for a few years now. It’s honestly one of my favourite pens. So when Daiso added a whole tray of new fountain pens, marked at a premium of $5, I was honestly not too inclined. The other fountain pen is still available for $1.50; how much better could a $5 one be?
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Review: Daiso Fluently marker
The Daiso Fluently illustration marker showed up at my local Daiso a few months ago. They’re alcohol-ink markers packaged in ten sets of two, for nineteen colors total and a blender marker.
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Review: Marvy Le Plume marker
The Marvy Le Plume is a disposable, alcohol-based ink marker with a single flexible felt brush tip. Marvy now also has a newer line of Le Plume II markers, but these are not those!
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Fountain pen inks with the Pentel pocket brush
Now that Pentel’s figured me out and put out colorful collectible editions, I have to match ink colors with pen bodies, so here’s how to fill your pocket brush with your fountain pen ink of choice!
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Review: Zebra Usu-Zumi Grey Brush Pen
Stumbled upon the Zebra Usu-Zumi grey brush pen at the Richmond Daiso. Very good pen overall, but hard to find and a little overkill for my normal uses.
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