Leigh Reyes. My Life As a Verb.

The Sailor pen wrap is so orange, it will never get lost in your bag. This is a good thing.

The leather is smooth, the edges are evenly stitched, and the inside is lined with shiny nylon. It can hold 3 medium-girth pens. There is an inside pocket for notecards or business cards.

The Sailor logo is subtly stamped inside.

If I could wish for anything, it would be a flap to cover the top of the pens, and to prevent them from sliding out of the case when it accidentally turns upside down in my bag. This happens more often than I like because my bags (repeat after me) “hold entire universes.”

It’s just that they call it a “medicine/receipt organizer, large.”

Inside, it has zippered plastic pockets. Each one can hold around a dozen pencils. The pockets are stitched to the spine of the case.

There’s no “give” on the sides, so the pencils naturally lie flat and don’t roll around much. These are Cretacolor Aqua Monolith pencils and they are on the fragile side, so I’m glad to report that no pencil has been broken in the course of this experiment. I’ve been lugging them around for months.

Every case has 6 pockets. More organized artist doodlers will most likely use this feature to arrange their pencils by color family. I really should do that sometime. Other pockets can be used for erasers, waterbrushes, even these Peerless watercolors I’ve been thinking of getting.

Another Beabi case holds my Derwent Inktense and Graphitint pencils.

This is what they look like from the side.

Beabi has an inactive Facebook page. Come on guys, you bring such joy to the obsessive-compulsive in all of us – surely you can’t begrudge your fans at least an online catalog?

The Enveloop is the only pen case I know that comes with a diagram.

The Japanese think of everything, so this cotton and leather pen case boasts regular pen pockets, short-type pen pockets and an extra pen pocket, so you don’t have to unroll the pen case to take out a pen.

Bundoki.com shipped a free Tombow Mono Zero 2.3 mm and a tiny notepad with my order. There’s the Mono Zero peeking out of a short-pen pocket.

I tucked the Parker Shadow Wave into the outside pen pocket. It looks good.

The Enveloop has other colors, but I liked this one best.