Misfill, Painted Rocks Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

Read:

— Painted Rocks (swissmiss)

— Stationery Intentions 2026 (BennysLittleThings’s)

— Mixed notes from Bangkok (José Naranja)

— Birmingham Sweetheart (Inkcredible Colours)

— Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) (he Public Domain Review)

— Using the small Travelers notebook as my daily driver (Stationery🍕)

— The Quiet Revolutionary Behind Côte&Ciel (Carryology)

— Seeing red and painting greens (The Penguin Post)

— Travelling with ink, January 2026: Italy, Part II, Naples. (Fountain pen blog)

— Notebook Review: Wearinguel Reservoir Thread Note B6 (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Ask TGS: What's In Your Travel Bag for 2026? (The Gentleman Stationer)

— Painting the worlds of Studio Ghibli with art director and background artist, Yoji Takeshige (It’s Nice That)

— Ink of the Week: Diamine Bittersweet (Dime Novel Raven)

— Ink Traces of Kenzan (ZEN in TECHNICOLOR)

Watch:

— Nick Dominguez Episode | Stationery Feed Season 2 (DWRDNet)

— Painting with Fountain Pen Inks 🌸 (From Carola)

— Feed Your Creativity is live with River City Pen Company! (Feed Your Creativity)

— Esterbrook Estie Raven Oversized (Figboot on Pens)

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Misfill, Welcome Kit Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

Read:

— HD Hyundai's Extreme Welcome Kit for New Employees (Core77)

— ink review : Wearingeul The Sorrows of Young Werther (inkxplorations)

— A Belated 2025 Wrap-up (Toga’s Stationery Vagaries)

— Travelling with ink, January 2026: Italy, Part I, Rome. (Fountain pen blog)

— Ink Omakase: January 2026 (Inkcredible Colours)

— Hemlock & Oak 70gsm Planners and Notebooks (Fountain Pen Love)

— Simon Reynolds Documents the Rise of Shoegaze and Slacker Rock in New Book (The Quietus)

— Pedro Pedro transforms The Everyday into Vibrant Inanimate Portraits (Hi-Fructose Magazine)

— Materials and the Marks they Make (Comfortable Shoes Studio)

— Public Lands Institute (i like this art)

— These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation (Colossal)

— In a digital world, he’s built a S$50,000 collection of rare fountain pens and ink bottles (CNA Lifestyle)

— tend your inner garden - a way to reimagine the analogue system metaphor (Baum-kuchen)

— Ink Review #2900: Colorverse 010 a Cygni (Mountain of Ink)

— Moleskine CEO Christophe Archaimbault on writing as a creative detox (ICON Magazine)

— Review: Calligrascape Blackletter Practice Sheets (Extra Fine Writing)

— Van Dieman’s Professional Natura Dualis Dual Tone Ink Overview (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Painted LEGO Bricks Appear to Move and Vibrate in Katherine Duclos' Assemblages (Colossal)

— Strategist Circular: 11 Things That Delighted Us Last Week (The Strategist)

Watch:

— How I Plan My Week (Abbey Sy)

— Hightide Opens New Stationery Shop in NYC (Dorkys Ramos)

— Journaling During These Unprecedented Times (Inky Rocks)

— How Anthony Bourdain Changed My Journaling! (Hemingway Jones)

— Painting with Fountain Pen Inks 🌸 (From Carola)

— 2025 Ohio Pen Show | 30th Year! | Exploring the Floor, Talking to vendors & Vintage Fountain Pens! (Feed Your Creativity)

— Thursday Night Stream: Snow Day Pens, Matthew Chen Nib Grinds, New Materials and Commissions (dwrdnet)

— Kaco Gel Pens: It took me forever to find these, but now I have SO MANY! (Inkdependence)

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Misfill, Digital Declutter Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

Read:

— Digital Declutter: Step 5 The Analog Alternatives (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— 2026 Philly Pen Show (Olive Octopus)

— KWZ Merlion Red (Inkcredible Colours)

— Something Savage this way comes: the motion designer reimagining pen plotters (Creative Boom)

— Tom Verlaine’s Notebooks (Notebook Stories)

— A coffee a day during my Portland winter staycation (The Penguin Post)

— My Current Pen Wish List – Jan. 2026 (Rachel’s Reflections)

Watch:

— Nahvalur Sunset Ember (Figboot on Pens)

— My New Favorite Markers: Sharpie Creative Acrylic Markers (Inkdependence)

— Journal With Me in a Hemlock & Oak Planner (From Carola)

— My Mechanical Pencil Collection is Out of Control (dwrdnet)

— Pens + Inks + Stationery I Brought Back After 3 Weeks in Japan! 🇯🇵 · Part 1 (julia here.)

— a week on my desk | traveler's notebook, hobonichi, stalogy (Adri’s Log)

— New Fountain Pen Day! Unboxing Leonardo Serenity and Montegrappa Paris in Bloom + Ink Swatches (Christyn Creates)

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