Lilypad Lounge and Glory Days

There's a narrow window in a Texas summer, the hour right before the heat sets in, that still feels like a gift. We built two new pens around it, Lilypad Lounge and Glory Days.

Glory Days has a soft lilac barrel with a morning glory vine climbing its length, purple-blue trumpet flowers at every stage of bloom, green leaves, and curling tendrils. It's fitted with chrome hardware and aurora crystals that glint whenever you turn it, and like every PenGems pen, it's hand-assembled in Texas and refillable. The flower it's named for opens once, in the morning, and never apologizes for closing again by afternoon.

Lilypad Lounge is the quieter half of the pair, a seafoam barrel with a lily pad garden climbing its length, a soft white-and-lavender water lily in bloom, a dragonfly on watch, and a frog hiding behind one of the pads if you know where to look. Same chrome hardware, same aurora crystals, same hand-assembled-in-Texas construction.

Both launch Friday, August 7 at noon Central.