Category: stationery
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Butterflies & Art for October 2026: Ink & Life
After years of stubbornly resisting planner season, I finally succumbed to the lure of trying a Hobonichi. The plan is to use it as a daily art thing. But it’s a particular kind of torture to have all these fancy new planners arriving and then having to wait until 2027 to use them. (Or December…
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Back to School September 2026: Ink & Life
Phew, we’re 2/3 of the way through September and I’m just now getting to this monthly post. I’ve spent the past two weeks being out of it: first sick, then a migraine (likely caused by sickness sleep disruption). Such is life. Honestly, despite it sounding objectively bad, giving myself permission to slow down and be…
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Swatch Wednesday: Diamine Sepia
Last of the set of three inks I bought to celebrate a writing accomplishment! This one is Diamine Sepia, and it looks more or less as I’d expect given the name. This one has a bit of shading in my swatch, which initially made me worry that it might be close to Ginger Chicken…
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Swatch Wednesday: Diamine Red Dragon
This is the second ink out of a set of three I bought to celebrate finishing a longer piece of fiction writing, This is the colour of the three that I really wanted. I love red inks, probably a bit of a holdover when I did more editing and marking by hand. When I was…
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Swatch Wednesday: Diamine Cool Green
Picked this up as part of a set of 3 inks. I actually wanted the red one, but the vendor had a bundle that made it worth getting 3, and since I was treating myself as a congratulations for finishing up a piece of writing I’d been working on for months, I was willing to…
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A Traveler’s Notebook for travelling? Groundbreaking.
I wanted to jot down some techo kaigi style thoughts on what worked out of the notebook setup I took on my last trip. I don’t travel nearly as much as I used to and my needs have changed a lot from when I travelled on my own to academic conferences and would sometimes have…
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Aquatic August 2026: Ink & Life
I really wanted to have a sea themed set of stickers for August but apparently I don’t really own a lot of sea creature related sticker sheets, so I made do with what I had on hand. Stickers All from stickii this month, though mostly older stuff. Kitty dreams stamps by Jazlynn.art (I think…
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Sweltering July 2026, Ink & Life
Hot and thunderstorm-y so far this July. Went downtown for Canada Day and had regrets — so hot, so loud — but the war museum was air conditioned. Kid noped out just in time for us to get on the train and back to the car before the skies opened and the thunder and lightning…
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Warming June 2026 Life & Ink
We’ve made it to June! One more month left in the school year, and everything’s all leafed out and green and glorious. I’m enjoying the instability of the weather with the wind and sun and rain alternating so you never get bored. And we’re slowly discovering our garden as new things bloom every few days. …
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Swatch Wednesday: Dominant Industry Ginger Chicken (Wonder Pens Exclusive)
As promised, here’s the second Wonder Pens exclusive ink I picked up. This ink is inspired by the other cat. It’s a nice dark orange-leaning brown, fairly dark in my dip pen but you can definitely see the shading. It was nice for painting and might get used for some tree branches in art one…
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Belated May 2026 Ink & Life
Whoops, I took pictures when I swapped my inks but then forgot to post! This month’s inks palette was put together by my kid. I told him I wanted to use Brilliant Mint and he chose some he felt went well together: Teranishi Brilliant Mint (bright blue-leaning teal) Diamine Gala (purple) Diamine Winterberry (red with…
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Swatch Wednesday: Dominant Industry Tuna and Olives (Wonder Pens)
I couldn’t resist getting this Wonder Pens exclusive ink inspired by cat eyes. Isn’t that just the cutest ink concept? And they did such a great job with the colour! I would have gotten both cat eye inks, but I thought the other one was probably too close to my recently purchased Brilliant Mint, so…