Category: Personal
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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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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…
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Holiday Blues and the Struggle to Overcome
Generally by the time November rolls around I’m practically bursting at the seams to have everything ready in time for the next year, and this year… not so much. I feel woefully under prepared and am struggling with the motivation to sort things out. Some of this stems from a lack of “New” in the…
Casual Crossings 