Fill Me In! A Guide To Fountain Pen Filling Mechanisms (Part Two)

Fill Me In! A Guide To Fountain Pen Filling Mechanisms (Part Two)

If you're a fountain pen enthusiast, you're probably pretty familiar with cartridges and converters, and maybe even piston-fillers. But did you know that some of the most celebrated pens in the wor...
Fill Me In! A Guide To Fountain Pen Filling Mechanisms (Part One)

Fill Me In! A Guide To Fountain Pen Filling Mechanisms (Part One)

You bought a fountain pen. Wonderful! But how do you fill it with ink? Don't worry, it isn't hard, and I'll explain in simple terms the easiest way for new fountain pen owners to get started. The d...
Floating Like A Feather with Platinum's New FLAF Nib - Pen Boutique Ltd

Floating Like A Feather with Platinum's New FLAF Nib

After two very intensive articles, I decided to keep this week's short and sweet. Have you ever heard of the FLAF nib? If your answer is no, I'm not surprised! This silly-sounding acronym belongs t...
Why Blue? A Rumination on Inks, Pens, and the People Who Love the World’s Favorite Color - Pen Boutique Ltd

Why Blue? A Rumination on Inks, Pens, and the People Who Love the World’s Favorite Color

How do you feel about the color blue? If you’re like most people, you probably love it!  Studies conducted over the past century have consistently found blue to be the world’s favorite color, often...
How Fountain Pens Slow Down Life... in a Good Way - Pen Boutique Ltd

How Fountain Pens Slow Down Life... in a Good Way

Last Tuesday, Pen Boutique owner Leena suggested that I write a "storytelling style" article about how fountain pens can slow life down in a positive way. At first, I was caught off guard.  I usual...
Exploring the Inky World of Dip Pens - Pen Boutique Ltd

Exploring the Inky World of Dip Pens

I'm not the kind of person who follows trends, but there is a trend in the stationery community that I've become more and more intrigued by over the past few years:  dip pens.  Dip pens have been e...
Opus 88 -- Eye-catching Eyedroppers! - Pen Boutique Ltd

Opus 88 -- Eye-catching Eyedroppers!

Have you ever tried an eyedropper filled pen?  I learned how to use one a couple years ago for an earlier version of this article, but I don't own one myself, and we recently got a lot of additiona...
Best Wishes! -- Choosing a Graduation Gift Pen - Pen Boutique Ltd

Best Wishes! -- Choosing a Graduation Gift Pen

[This article was first published in May, 2022, and completely updated for graduation season 2026.]   The Ideal Graduation Pen When I wrote my first version of this article, four of my workmates at...
Surprising Simplicity -- LAMY's Studio Pen Collection - Pen Boutique Ltd

Surprising Simplicity -- LAMY's Studio Pen Collection

LAMY studio is a quiet pen.  I like to hold it in my hand and just look at it.  It's a simple design, I suppose, but in that simplicity is an elegant minimalism like a modern sculpture in pen form....