Misfill, Orange Mysterious Creature 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:

— Candidates Announced for Suica Penguin’s Successor. A Public Vote Will Decide the Outcome (Spoon & Tamago)

— My encounter with the Osmia Faber Castell 53SM, vintage fountain pen. (Fountain pen blog)

— A Mish-Mash of Delightful Things (From the Pen Cup)

— Pen Review: Wancher PuChiCo Mini Fountain Pen (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Ink Swatch - Sailor - Manyo - Ukikusa (Jim P.’s Fountain Pen and Ink Nonsense)

— Horse No. 9 and 10 (Inkcredible Colours)

— Backward and Forward (Line Variation)

— InkFlash : Robert Oster Kada Kada Light (inkxplorations)

— Settling in slowly (A Gathering of Curiosities)

— Nahvalur Nautilus Fireworks Review (Penquisition)

— Ink Review #2907: De Atramentis Document Black Blue (Mountain of Ink)

— Lesson 1 from The Unofficial Artist in Residency- Desaturated Colors (Comfortable Shoes Studio)

— Notes from Tokyo (José Naranja)

— Butterfly Garden (Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

— Manchester City Women becomes the first WSL team have its own distinct identity (It’s Nice That)

— 'Just to keep drawing': The tale of how Innes Clark designed her way out of a bakery and into restaurant branding (Creative Boom)

Watch:

— 10 Years of Stationery Panel Hosted By Pen Addict & Myke with Aura Estelle, Esterbrook & Jenni Bick (Yoseka Stationery)

— Coolest Pen Ever? Makar Ajoure (Figboot on Pens)

— The Best Pen For $22? The Faber-Castell Poly (Inkdependence)

— Finally Got My Hands On The Kyuseido Akari! (And The Shinya) (DWRDNET)

— My Top 5 Reasons to carry a pocket notebook. (The Offstage Me)

— Sailor Tuzu – Fountain Pen Review (Scrively)

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Posted on September 13, 2026 by Brad Dowdy and filed under Misfill.

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Mike’s Pen Fun Golden Dragon Fountain Pen

I’m raising money for St. Jude during the month of September, and as we keep hitting milestones, I keep adding items to give away to anyone and everyone who would like to enter.

This giveaway is for a Mike’s Pen Fun Fountain Pen in Golden Dragon. Not only is this material fantastic, it was made to fit a #8 size nib, in this case a Gold-plated Medium Bock, tuned by Kirk Speer of Pen Realm. Thanks so much to Mike’s Pen Fun for donating this pen!

One note: this, and all other St. Jude Milestone Giveaways will run until October 2nd, officially closing at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

There are more giveaway milestones to hit, so check out my campaign and help myself and Relay raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

All of the St. Jude Giveaways this month:

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Skogsy Pens LVED 14mm

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - River City Pen Co. Arlington Fountain Pen

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Brad Dowdy and filed under St. Jude.

Midori 2027 MD Product A7 Diary Giveaway Winner

When I saw this Midori 2027 MD Product A7 Diary I knew I had to get one for giveaway because look at it! This is the planner for people who just want a little something - emphasis on little - to keep with them for a quick look at their monthly and weekly schedules. It’s kind of awesome if you ask me, and I’m including a perfect pen for it in the Pilot FriXion Synergy Click Pen. And the winner is: