Galen Leather B5 Portfolio

Current Contents

Here’s what I currently have in the portfolio for letter writing, note-taking, planning dates, and even some sketching.

• a handful of E Francis Little Notes with delightful watercolor dots (bought from my fave in-person stationery store, Paper Mouse in Newton, MA)

• business cards

• postage stamps

• vinyl stickers

• a paper ruler from St Louis Art Supply, free with any order

• Apica C.D. notebook, B5 size

• inexpensive B5-sized planner, simple month view

• single-page calendar from Paper Mouse, available each January

• letters and cards, ready to write

• Stork scissors

To Write With

• TWSBI Diamond 580

• Platinum Extra Fine Desk Pen, with Diamine Writer’s Blood ink!

• TWSBI Mini, with Diamine Jet Black ink

• Pilot Falcon, with DeAtramentis Black Document ink (waterproof ink for sketching)

• three favorite pencils, including the Mitsubishi Vermillion/Prussian Blue double-ended pencil

• Sailor Pro Gear, with Diamine Pelham Blue ink, ink which happens to exactly match the blue leather of the portfolio

• the Pilot mechanical pencil of my youth, similar to this one

• pictured also is the Attache Marbled Fountain Pen, with a Diamine Green Umber cartridge

(Non-affiliate links to either Paper Mouse in Newton, MA, JetPens in California, or St Louis Art Supply, to support three great small businesses. Scissors are an affiliate link to Amazon.)