A few photos from our March meeting

We had an excellent turnout for our March meeting, held on the afternoon of Saturday March 22nd --- a total of 35 VPC members (including five newcomers!) attended an informal gathering at the Vancouver Public Library's Champlain Heights branch.

I had a lot of fun talking to everyone (including brand-new members Andrea P, Ben F, Beverley, Kimberly, and Nadiia)... so much so that I almost forgot to snap any photos for our website 🙄. I did remember to take a small handful, though, and Christopher T. was kind enough to take some group shots (thanks, Christopher!), so here they are...

(photos by Maja, except where noted ~ please click on images to enlarge)

Above: That's me (Maja) on the far left next to Paul and brand-new member Beverley, In the background, you can see Lyndon and another new member, Ben (back turned to camera) ~ photo by Christopher T. ~

A nice group shot (also taken by Christopher) of (L-R) Shona, Steve, James, me, Paul and Beverley.

A quick photo of our club's newest limited edition fountain pen - a beautiful Radius 1934 'Settimo' Marmo! (the one above belongs to Allan, but I'll take some photos of my own pen and post a review soon) The multi-refill ballpoint in the photo was one of many that Steve handed out to all attendees (thanks, Steve!).

Several of our members brought really interesting pen cases to the meeting, so I snapped photos of a couple that were actually handmade by them...starting with this cool vinyl multi-pen holder made by Catherine using leftover vinyl from a 'Star Wars' purse!

Catherine likes the design because she can fold over the flap and use the case as a desk pen holder, as well.

 

Joy made this cute leather solo pen sleeve as a holder for clipless mini pens using materials from two local companies---leather from Hand and Sew and thread from Lonsdale Leather.

Peeking out from it is her adorable Montblanc Heritage Rouge et Noir Baby Ivory-coloured special edition fountain pen!

Last, but not least, we have this Rickshaw Bagworks two-pen sleeve made specially for online retailer Pen Realm featuring the lovely artwork of our fellow pen club member, Carola!

Well, that's all the photos from the meeting! Many thanks to everyone who attended; I hope you had a good time 😀. It wasn't a themed meeting this month, but April's meeting will have a theme, so check our website later this week/early next week for details about next month's meeting (including the theme); I'll post them after our venue booking is confirmed.

(~Blog post by Maja~)