I want to thank everyone for the comments on my last post… I’m still kind of in shock, and sort of going through my own problems at the moment, so I haven’t been able to respond to everyone. I’m sorry. But thank you for your support.
I managed to pick up even MORE letter writing paper while in Munich.
A friend of mine told me that she’s thinking about getting a stack of elegant letter paper before we leave. (I know! I can’t say the word “stationery” anymore. Too unused to it. Sorry.) I think she’s right. As well as a fountain pen, but she’s planning on asking for that when she graduates. I would rather get it here, while I can still play with the pens before I purchase.
Because where can you get fountain pens in a brick-and-mortar store in the United States? Haven’t seen many of them. I am going to really miss this corner of the world when I go back.
I need more people to correspond with, as my stacks of paper to write on get larger and larger. Problem: It takes something around two weeks for my letters to get places. Not exactly inspiring confidence. I’m a little worried about my plan to ship things home now, in fact. Maybe I need to take a quick trip to Germany in June to ship a box of stuff home.
I had a card waiting for me when I got back from Munich, too.
The one on the left is the one I received Friday, the one on the right I received a few weeks ago. I love how good they look sitting next to each other. How much they match. These two people are some of my most faithful correspondents, and I hardly send either of them anything. I really should be sending them more things. The one on the right? From my mom, sitting on top of a bunch of newspaper and magazine clippings she sent with the card. The left? From her best friend.
I am surrounded by love.
You CAN buy Fountain Pens in the US – I have several of them, given to me by my Aunt (who wrote an essay on fountain pens, so you can tell she kind of like them).
Anyway, my best fountain pen is a Cross pen that she gave me for high school graduation (it’s really nice, and one of the cartridge is one you can re-fill from a bottle of ink).
My first fountain pen I got when I was about 10, I think. I still have it in my pencil pouch I carry in my backpack all the time. The pen is made by Sheaffer, and you can buy them (and their cartridges as well as their fancier counterparts) at my University’s bookstore. They write better (at least in my opinion) in cursive than printing.
I really, really like fountain pens, though.
Wow, I’m off line for a few weeks and just look at this place! What a renovation!
I too have a paper collection – I need more resolve to use it though – I love it so much I’m loath to ever write on it!
Yeah, you definitely can buy fountain pens here in the U.S. but you generally need to be in a major metropolitan area to buy one in a B&M store. I say, enjoy those — what did you call them in your letter, schreibenwaren? — paper/stationery stores while you’ve got ‘em!!
OH, and by the way – I finally put another letter off in the mail to you yesterday. I do hope this one reaches you!!
I’ll look out for it! Thanks!
And I am definitely enjoying the Schreibwarenladen while I can. :)