And the winner is....

If you can't quite figure out John's handwriting, and you wouldn't be there first, let me explain...

So as you may have seen, throughout the week we've been holding a little competition in celebration of Fountain Pen Day which is today! And every year hence on the first Friday of November.

The question that everyone had to answer was simple...How are you going to celebrate fountain pen day?

With the chance to win a lovely Omas Art Deco Certified Edition Fountain Pen.

We've had many many many great answers, I'll collate them all into a nice reading list in the next blog post for everyone to see.

But unfortunately we only had one pen to give away! So there had to be a winner.

And that lucky person was 

Hui Jun ChewAnd today to celebrate fountain pen day, he has been...
"Writing out all emails by long hand, scanning them into the computer and then emailing them. I haven't made up my mind which pen-ink-paper combination I will use."

Well done! Thanks to everyone that entered and it's only 12 Months til the next Fountain Pen Day!

How we are celebrating Fountain Pen Day

This Friday, 2^nd November, is Fountain Pen Day.  It is being celebrated around the world – look at http://www.fountainpenday.org/. 

We like fountain pens a lot, and to celebrate this important day we’re giving away one of the best and most interesting pens we’ve seen recently – the Omas Arte Italiana Art Deco.  It’s a resin pen, piston filler, and with a Titanium nib offering an introduction to the joy of flex.  It is worth £330.00.

For details, look at our Facebook page or our website.

All you have to do is tell us what you’re going to do to celebrate Fountain Pen Day.  Be sincere, witty, imaginative, artistic, factual, fantastic, whatever you like!  The best reply, in our opinion, will win!

The winner will be announced on Friday at 4.00  - get your entry in by midday, Shrewsbury time.

Fountain Pen Day - 2nd November 2012!

Just found out about this on the grapevine, the first ever Fountain Pen Day is being celebrated internationally on the 2nd November. 

The day was created to help embrace, promote, and share the use of fountain pens in day-to-day life, as well to help revive handwriting as a whole.

It appears as you've probably seen from the various news articles that have been circulating over the last few months (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18071830) that this is the year for the resurgence of the fountain pen, and writing instruments in general.


So what can you do to support Fountain Pen Day? Here's a few that things that they recommend...

1. Write a letter to someone with your favorite fountain pen and ink. Under your signature you can write the pen & ink you used.
2. Post on your favorite forum or blog by writing it out with your fountain pen. Then take a picture of it and post it. Again, under your signature write what pen & ink you used.
3. Instead of typing Facebook status updates and tweets on Twitter, write them and upload a picture of them (mention the reason that you’re doing it at well.)
4. Take one of the pens you don’t use anymore and send it off to a friend with a handwritten note. If you don’t have any pens you want to part with you can shop one of the online retailers and have it sent direct to them.
5. Make that the weekend you have your pen club meet up.
6. Turn off your computer and put down the phone and spend some time writing.

Can we add any to this list?


So please help spread the word, and let us know what you get up to in your celebrations!







If you want to find out more or show your support for Fountain Pen Day - 2/11/2012, then visit 

www.fountainpenday.org