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== Stationery Zines ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. So speaking of Etsy, I want to give a shout out to some of my favorite stationary zines. These are perfect stocking stuffers. So you have the pencil revolution on Etsy. You have the word distribution. I support both of those as well as Les from Comfortable Shoes Studio. She has her coffee shop for useful journaling. I've been getting all of their zines. It's kind of like my new little thing to do. I enjoy reading those things. I also want to give a shout out to Angela at Inky Converters who runs one of my favorite fountain pen friendly stationary shops. She makes killer stuff, killer stickers and pens and buttons and lots of fun little items. I've ordered several things from her in the past. And also, we're going to talk about, we'll have a billion links into here to all of our favorite pen makers. But I went down the machine pen makers path here with Shone Design. These are people that we obviously love and make really cool things. I'm not going to break down all of their offerings. But Shone's pocket pens and pocket fountain pens are some of the best. Will at Tactile Turn does a great job. The new safety first pen is... It's a battle of will. No pun intended to not buy that pen. It's really, really good. That's probably going to be one of the super hot stationary gifts this year. Spoke Design. Myself and my partner Brian, who is the brains behind Spoke Design. We have some awesome pens and pencils for you to check out. Matthew Martin's fountain pens, his machine work is just stunning. Really cool designs, cool shapes, cool materials. And last but not least for me, a bag maker who I discovered earlier this year. Reload Bags out of Philadelphia make one of the coolest bags that I've bought for myself in a long time. I bought a messenger bag, but they have tons of all different sizes bags. Made there in their shop in Philly. Super awesome people to work with and could not recommend them more. If you have someone who's into bags and things of that nature, definitely give them a look. All right, Anna. Talk about yourself some more.

'''Anna Reinert:''' No, no, no. I already did that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You guys already heard all that.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Okay. I will say this much. There are a lot of new products coming. Unfortunately, because of the whole pandemic, we've had, you know, things just take longer than we expected. But there's new stuff coming. There's new old stock coming. There's, I mean, I want to tell you guys everything, but I think it'll just make everything worse. And anybody who watched Brad's Twitch yesterday, that thing is real. That was causing problems. That thing is real. It is coming. It will be limited edition. And in regards to how much it costs to ship that darn thing, $12.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's better than I thought. Minimum of $12. I would have guessed $20, to be honest.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Well, I was able for you to ship it through the, like, what is it, B, like priority mail B or something like that. And the fact that I could put it in the priority mail box and just leave it flat saved me a little heartache. I'm sure that's probably not what they intended those for, but it worked. So, yeah. Anyway, that's coming as well. That will probably not be available until the, probably the first of the year because we have some other irons in the fire that we have to take care of. But save up your pennies.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. Who else do you want to give a shout out to?

'''Anna Reinert:''' I want to give a shout out to all the little guys. Yeah. All the little shops because I'm kind of on a please try not to buy everything on Amazon this year kick. Personally, it's just a personal thing. But I feel like it's undermining all these little shops who put so much effort into curating these beautiful collections of products. And everybody is struggling to survive through this pandemic because they are just not going to have the walk-in customers that they normally have at this time of the year. So, my first shout out will be for the Yoseka Stationery, which we've mentioned several times already. Little Otsu. Hakubundo.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Rikumo. Rikumo. Rikumo. It's another Japanese vibe. They have a little office section on their website that has some really cool stuff. I'm going to get to ones that I can actually pronounce. Hold on. Ohmio, which is a shop out of Philly, which is another sort of more Japanese stationery. Shigori Inks, who of all of the pen shops that we talk about, doesn't get mentioned a whole lot, but they kind of really focus on ink and they have, every time I go to their site, they have an ink I hadn't heard of before. Go Team Go. But then Greer Chicago, wonderful stationery shop. Gentleman Stationer now has his own curated shop. Notebook Therapy and Bomb Cushion, who we mentioned earlier, because of the superior labor.