Hi Everybody,

More auction pens about to go live on eBay.

Scholarship time is here!  If you are a senior in high school, anywhere in the US, or you KNOW a senior in high school, please send them this way to check out our scholarships!

I’m about to start getting in touch with local high school guidance counselors to see if they can hook some kids up.

Thanks!

Shawn

 

 

We here at Newton Pens would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays.

It’s all of you that make it possible for me to do this thing that I enjoy so much.

Thanks so much.

Hey Everybody,

I’m excited to announce that we have some new notebooks.  They are the pocket size made by Curnow Bookbinding, filled with white Tomoe River paper.

The art is by a local high school student, Ann G.

These can be purchased for $5 each plus $.75 shipping over at our ebay store.  International shipping will be a little more.  Every penny raised goes to the scholarship fund, just like with the pen auctions, which you can also find at the ebay store.

If you have any questions please ask – shawn@newtonpens.com

 

Thanks so much!

Shawn

Hi Everybody!  Excited to let you all know about some work I did with Chatterley and The Chicago Pen Company!

For Chatterley I made several Prospectors in orange and black G10.

These are loaded with Bock 380 nibs in 14k gold or titanium.
Black and orange-

All orange-

 

A few all black coming soon.  
 

 

For The Chicago Pen Company I made 20 Orvilles in a custom ebonite exclusive to them, to match the colors of The Blue Naped Tanager.

These are loaded with Bock 250 nibs engraved with The Chicago Pen Company logo.

 

 

Jim and AJ have given me the #2 pen to auction off in our scholarship auctions!  Thanks!  I’ll announce here and all over social media when that will go live.

Our auctions have moved to ebay recently and I couldn’t be happier with how easy it’s been for us to deal with.  Thank you all for participating.  We’ve raised $1491 in the last few weeks auctioning off pens you’ve donated.

If you have any pens, inexpensive or quite expensive, and you want to donate, please get in touch with me – shawn@newtonpens.com – and we’ll work out the details.  We give tax receipts for all donations.

I’ll have more pens up on the auction block in the next few days here.

 

As always, if you have any questions please holler at me – shawn@newtonpens.com

 

If you have any suggestions on how we can raise some more money for the scholarships, I’m all ears.  🙂

Thanks!

Shawn

 

Hi everybody!  Real quick – 10 new pens up for auction this month – thanks so much to you who have donated pens.  Holy cow I appreciate you so much.

I’m using eBay to auction pens from now on.  The comments here on the site never seem to update as quickly as we need, so many of you can’t see the most recent bids.  This will fix all that.

If you want to donate a pen or just some cash, please get in touch with me at shawn@newtonpens.com.  Every penny accepted and raised from auction items goes to the charity.  We have no overhead or expenses so every actual penny (except paypal fees) goes to high school students going to college.  🙂  And you get a tax receipt for donations.

I just got back from the Dallas pen show which was great.  It was awesome getting to see everybody and meet new people.  I had great table neighbors this year – Hinze Pens and Scribal Work Shop.

 

My next show is the Arkansas Show coming up in a few months so maybe I’ll see you there.

This Saturday, October 5th, Arkansas Pen Club is having a Saturday meeting, hosted at Vanness Pen Shop, where there will be lots of door prizes.  One of those being one of my pens.  🙂  So if you’re in Little Rock this Saturday, come on by around 1:30 and have some fun.  Oh yeah it’s my birthday so there will be strawberry cupcakes as well.  🙂

I think that’s everything.  I’m sure I forgot something.  If you have any questions just holler.  🙂
Thanks!

Shawn

Hey everybody!  I’ve been so busy lately I think I’ve been neglecting the website posting.
I need to update the online store after the DC Show – which was great.

We just wrote checks to our latest group of scholarship recipients.

This brings the total amount of money given away since 2013 to $41,250.  The total amount we’ve raised so far (some going into our new endowment fund) is $58,084 since 2013!

If you want to help out with the scholarship fund you can donate by visiting this page or donate stationery items and pens you don’t use anymore.  Let us know value and we’ll send you a tax receipt back.

Our PO box is

Newton Pens
PO BOX  6084
Hot Springs, AR. 71902

You can also bid on our pen up for auction right now.  I’ll get something else added up there soon.

I think that’s it for now.  I’m still answering emails that built up while we were away at DC.  If you want to see a few pics of the show here you go.  🙂

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We're at #DCPenShow come and see us! Middle of the big room. #newtonpens #fountainpens

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In the small room (more room for my butt) with @liz_newton_penwraps today. Next to @brooks_803 and the ink testing tables. Come see us! #DCPenShow #newtonpens #fountainpens

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So it’s Summer time Summer time!

The May auction is over (I only had the one pen with the Tibaldi scraps) and it raised $250.  Thanks so much for your participation and support of the scholarship fund!

This month we have a Bexley sleeve filler, a Newton Pens Orville, and a handmade ebonite pen by Dennis Humm up for grabs.

You can bid on them here – and know that every penny raised from these goes to the scholarship fund to help high school students with their college expenses.

We gave $6500 away in scholarships to 5 kids this year.

The highest scoring essay was written by a student at my old school Mountain Pine!  (Where I taught not attended).

Elizabeth P, Camryn G, Cameron H, Emily H, and Guillermo C will each get a scholarship to help them pay for their first semester of college, and maybe a little something else if there’s money left over.  Good luck kids and thanks to everybody who applied, and a super huge thanks to our volunteers for reading the essays and helping us pick recipients again.

If you want to help out next year we could use you.  Send an email to shawn@newtonpens.com and I’ll let you know how you can help.

 

Hey everybody!

Atlanta was great!  You can see some pics at my Instagram page.

Next up is the Chicago show – first weekend in May.  If you’re going to be in the area come see us.  We’ll be right at the front door.

We’re at about $7,200 raised this year for scholarships.  Still taking applications for about a week.  If you are a high school student going to college or some other secondary school please apply!

The pens for the April Auctions are uploaded finally.  Every penny raised goes towards the scholarship fund.  Everything starts at $1.

Hey Eveybody,

Thanks so much for stopping by – just a quick note to say THANK YOU to everybody who participated in last month’s auctions.  The big Eastman raised $320, the Majestic $150, and the Platinum $25.  That’s a good pull for the month!

I’m getting ready for the Atlanta Pen Show this weekend so I’ll be away from email and stuff for a few days.

I’ll try to post the new auction pens before I head out to Atlanta today or tomorrow, but I’ve got lots of pens to buff and clean up for the show.  Fingers crossed.

SCHOLARSHIP APPS ARE DUE SOON!!  But I want to extend deadline till April 20 (one more week). So you have time to apply kids!

If you are a high school senior, or know one, apply for a scholarship!  I’ve only gotten 5 apps in so far and we have just over $7,000 raised up so far.  We’re going to put some into the endowment to feed that some, but I want to give away as much as possible.

If you want to join our small group of volunteers to help read and score essays, please send me an email to shawn@newtonpens.com and let me know.

I think that’s it.  Have a great week!

Shawn

 

Hi Everybody,

It’s that time of year to start applying for scholarships!  Just a little over one month to get those applications in!

Scholarship Application – Rules and Info

Funds for scholarships raised through auction of pens, and sale of notebooks and postcards.

CHeck out the new pens up for auction this month – 1 donated, and 2 of mine.

If you want to help support the scholarship fund and have some pens you want to donate, send me an email or just send the pens to me at-

Newton Pens
PO BOX  6084
Hot Springs, AR. 71902

Include value of pens so I can send you a tax receipt.  Don’t forget to include your contact information in the package.

If you just want to donate financially you can do this with paypal to newtonpensscholarships@gmail.com or send a check to the above address, made out to Newton Pens Scholarships.  Every penny we take in goes towards scholarships for high school students going to college.  So far this school year we’ve raised $6813 (not including the last couple of days).  We still have 2 full months of fundraising, too!

The Arkansas Pen Show is in only 2 weeks!  Holy cow that’s coming up quick!

After that we’re gong to Atlanta, then Chicago, maybe Saint Louis (depends on some other things going on this summer) then in August is DC, in September we have Dallas, and that’s the year.

If you have any questions about anything, just holler – shawn@newtonpens.com.

Thanks!