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Sailor Pro Gear King of Pens Winter Sky
AKA: the pen I love and would never recommend. I would call the Sailor King of Pens confusing in that it’s one of those fountain pens which you see get released, but I can’t say I see a ton of people posting about online, yet Sailor keeps releasing more KOPs with somewhat regularity despite this.…
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Taking a step back
I have found that my hobby engagement comes in waves, and so the past few months have seen a significant step back in my level of engagement. I’m still using fountain pens pretty much every day, and I continue to journal and keep track of my usage, but in general I just don’t really follow…
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Q2 and the desire to bake all the bread
Queue up “Fly like an Eagle” by Steve Miller Band please because I have been having some issues with time lately. I barely even thought about Q2 and goals until like a week in, oops. I have been, as the title suggests, distracted. Baking and cooking are huge things for me, both as recreational activities…
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The Paper Mind Bank Paper Notebook Review
I’m always on the hunt for a new notebook to try and I was gifted a Paper Mind Bank Paper A5 Notebook for Christmas in 2023 and have finally started using it in the past few weeks and wanted to put in my thoughts! The notebook comes in three formats: Ruled, Blank, and Dot Grid.…
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I’m Not Dead, I Swear
For being a short month, February sure does know how to pack a punch. Which isn’t to say there weren’t a lot of great things happening either, but yeesh. Even though the days are getting longer, February tends to be a rough month for me in the mental health department and I ended up feeling…
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#17InkQuestions
I’ve seen this fun questionnaire going around (thanks Olive Octopus) and thought I would give it a go. While inks are really fun and interesting, they aren’t something I spend too much time thinking about, so this was a fun exercise for me! 1. What was your first (memorable) ink? Is it bad that my…
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3 Oysters Doldam
(or the ink I owe an apology) When I got this ink from my personal inkvent, I swatched it and went, “hm, no thanks” because I just felt like it was such a light color. Then January came and I was looking to ink up some pens and thought, “oh, I’ll try Doldam out in…
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2024 Pen & Ink of the Year
When I got my 5 Year Hobonichi, I knew I wanted to do something different with it, and so I decided to commit to one pen and one ink for an entire year’s use in my 5 Year journal. Picking an ink was easy. I knew I wanted to use Sailor Studio 731 clear back…
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The Joys of a Personal “Inkvent”
In 2019, Diamine announced what has become, I think, one of the hottest holiday products I can think of: Inkvent. A holiday advent calendar full of Diamine inks. The 2019 edition, now known as the “Blue” edition came with (24) 7mL glass ink bottles, and on day 25, a large plastic 30mL bottle which matched…
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2023 Techo Kaigi & Looking to 2024
2023 was… a year. It took me until the beginning of the December to even feel motivated enough to look at my planners and journals of 2023 and think about what I wanted to bring forward into 2024. I had never even heard of a “techo kaigi” until 2022 when Kimberly at the PenAddict had…