Portland Pen Show - Countdown

[Michael McNeil]

Hi all,

 

It's 10 almost 9 days until the Portland Pen Show! We're all fired up here, and it's not too late to get in on it! :-)

 

Check out http://www.PortlandPenShow.com if you want to attend.

 

The show has increased significantly in size this year, small by some standards, but it's well... intimate. There are always more than enough great pens to go around, both modern and vintage. I heard that Visconti will be represented at the show this year.

 

Our good friends from the Pendemonium crew and the Ink-Pen East & West crew will be in attendance. If you need a little nib straightening, John Mottishaw will be here. And Just4thehalibut (misspelled), Saul Kitchener is coming. As is our favorite "Wahlnut" from Pensbury Manor. I believe Go Pens, Gary and Myrna Lehrer, will be in attendance again this year. Lots of folks will be here from B.C. and across the U.S. once more. Also many whom will be first time attendees and dealers to this show. I don't have the most current updated list, so I don't know who all is coming. I do know a good time is always had by all. I am never sure how the local curiosity seekers feel about the show, it's hard to get a smile out them. But I guess that's just the nature of curiosity seekers! :-)

 

A big hit at the Portland shows, in the past, have always been the outstanding, fantabulous, receptions MMMM, mmmmm, mmm! I can’t wait! ;-)

 

I also heard there will be another major story on the Portland Pen Show in the Oregonian newspaper this year.

 

If you would like to attend and run into a problem along the way, and need help, you can always contact carla_mortensen@hotmail.com The hotel and other info can be found on the link for the Portland Pen Show website, above.

 

It was a wonderful 78 degrees F. here today. I can't guarantee that for the 14th, 15th, and 16th of July, but the weather has been pleasant the last couple of years.

 

I think there will be seminars, I just haven't seen the line-up on them.

 

I feel like I'm leaving something out, which I probably am, but I'd just like to say, we hope many of you reading this can attend the 2006 Portland Pen Show!

 

Happy ink trails!

 

Michael McNeil