On Sunday was the Melbourne Pen Show. Itโs a small show but it has a 20 year history and this year there was quite a few interstate visitors (and even at least one international). The Melbourne Pen Show isnโt the DC Pen Show; it isnโt the London Pen Show; itโs a small regional pen show. But because itโs small and regional itโs very people focused and I expect offers a different experience to that of the bigger show.
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Signature Inks Kada Kada FPA Light & Dark
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Robert Ostster's Kada Kada FPA Light & Dark are two ink made for the Fountain Pens Australia Facebook group. After two rounds of choosing colours that Robert would base the ink off, the group chose "Kada Kada" with the colour hash code of #270567 and after that I worked with Rob to come up with this ink. The name Kada Kada means "Story" in the local (to me in Fremantle, Western Australia) Noongar language. And the hash code was chosen because it is the date (27/05/1967) that Indigenous Australians were afforded constitutional rights.
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