It’s almost Christmas!  That means it’s time for the best Christmas movie of all time!  DIE HARD! But it’s also time to do the normal monthly stuff around here – house cleaning and all that. # 1 – Remember that…

Hi Everybody! We’ve decided to end the raffles – Dec 2018 is the last month.  We’ll still sell notebooks and auction pens off to raise money for the scholarship fund, but I won’t be running the raffles for a free…

Bolt On Here’s my bolt on clip prototype.  I’ll be using allen head bolts rather than flat head screws. 3d Printed My first 3d printed clips are here too.  We’ll work in a few changes to make them a little…

Hi Everybody!  Welcome to the monthly Newton Pens update post. We went to the Dallas pen show last weekend – Sept 28 and 29.  Had a really great show.  We ate at the most amazing Italian restaurant Friday night.  Two…

Dallas pen show We’ll be at the Dallas Pen show this year.  We’ve booked a wall table so come and find us.  Hopefully we’ll have a big sign on the wall with our name on it. Shop expansion – Things…

Hi Everybody! I’m late writing my monthly update but here it is. For July, Michael S (#8) was picked using random.org for a $225 credit towards a custom pen. I’m going to cut checks today for the 2018 scholarship recipients.…

Hey Everybody, The Orville arco auction is over and went for $500!  Thanks so much!  $225 of that total is going to the scholarship fund. There are some new auction items up ready to be won!  Every penny raised from…

Hey Everybody!  It’s been a crazy busy month and it’s finally over.  Now for another crazy busy month (aren’t they all?). First – Every month as a way of saying thank you to everybody who contributes to the scholarship fund…

Hi Everybody! It’s a new month!  We’ve got new pens up for auction this month (19 lots!), and only a few more notebooks and postcard sets left.  Once the postcards are gone, that will be it.  Since we’re getting really…

Hi pen peoples!  The May auctions are over and it looks like we raised $349.  Thank you all so much!  I’ll get 10 more pens set up for June in the next day or two. If you have some old,…

Hey Everybody! $1,000 awards going to A Meeks – Mountain Pine J Puckett – Cutter Morning Star M Hancock –  Macomb High School M McDaniel – Mountain Pine H Scott –  Bryant High School R Kennon –  Pompano Beach High School T Terry…

Hi Everybody! Thanks so much to everybody who participated in the April pen auctions.  I forgot to post a reminder for last minute bidding during the last couple of days but it was still a great month.  I’ve already posted…

Hi Everybody, So it’s been another good month for the Newton Pens Scholarship fund raising, with good notebook and postcard sales at the Arkansas Pen Show and online, and several hundred raised from the pen auctions.  We raised $673 in…

We had a great time at the pen show this year.  We raised some money for the scholarship fund, sold a few pens, met some great people, and brought our boys for their very first show!  Holden and Corbin got…

Hi Everybody!  It’s time to give a pen away!  Every month we give a pen away as a thank you to people for donating to the scholarship fund and this month, we had 27 entries, raising $135, and using random.org…

First thing a bit of news and updates and reminders – Feb 26th is coming up fast, so if you want to bid on something from this batch of auction pens better get in there quick.  You just bid by…

Good news everyone!  (that’s a Futurama reference for you this month) We received 32 submissions in January, through sales of postcards and notebooks (what few we have left) and donations and free entries.  This month the random.org number picking machine…

So the site design has been bugging me for a while.  I found a theme I like yesterday morning and last night had the bright idea (finally) to add a shopping cart to make buying inventory pens easier. Store. Let…

Hi Everybody- What’s new in the news?  This has been the best year in fundraising so far!  I’ve been told we still have money coming in from different sources going to the endowment fund, but right now, our bank account…

Good morning world! It’s been a really great month for fundraising.  You all have helped  raise about $1,482 and some change through the pen auctions and your purchases of notebooks and postcards, and generous donations.  There’s more coming in as…

Hi Everybody! Don’t forget I have a 10% off sale going right now for Fountain Pen Day until midnight tonight.  After that all prices are as listed on the site. I’ve also listed the Fountain Pen Day pen from…

Hello all of you pen users and pen lovers and collectors and everything else! It’s been another successful month raising money for the scholarship fund this October with 58 entries.  Wowza thanks! So like every other month for the last…

From a kernel of an idea in 2012, Fountain Pen Day is now a full-blown event. This year’s celebration takes place on Friday, November 3 (Fountain Pen Day always takes place on the first Friday in November). Cary Yeager, marketing…

Hi Everybody, First– thank you all so much.  This scholarship is only successful because of all of your contributions.  Your continued support and donations are going to high school students to help them succeed in college. Every month we give…

I’m not a very good blogger so I’ll just type up some of my notes from the trip, and add a few more thoughts as I think of them. 🙂 But first… Scholarship announcements. We’ve raised $810 through the pen…

Hi Pen People! We’ll be heading out of town tomorrow morning for the San Francisco Pen Show, August 25-27.  I’ll be slow to answer emails for the most part, but I’ll try to get a few minutes here and there…

Hey everybody!  Thank you so much to everybody who contributed to the scholarship fund in July (and to everybody ever over the last few years).  Through sales of postcards and notebooks, and auctions of pens, we were able to raise…

-July 2017- Hi Everybody, Something people have asked me about for a while, and that I’ve been wanting to get going for a while, is finally becoming reality.  We’re starting an endowment that will sustain Newton Pens Scholarships indefinitely, or…