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Creative Goals 2026 (Formerly Fiber Goals)
For the past 10 years, rather than doing new year’s resolutions I’ve been doing “fiber goals.” The idea has always been to set goals around chasing joy, directing my creativity, and making space in my life for things I want to do. But I don’t think that’s going to be as much about fiber this…
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Fiber Goals 2025 – How Did I Do?
This year’s goals were as follows: I realized that my original plan to run a stash-focused social media event wasn’t something I wanted to do any more, so I swapped that one to be the more vague but intensely more fun “write more.” Here’s the mid-year check-in: Revisit Old Goals August: Used up some leftover…
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2025 Diamine Inkvent Teal – Day 5-8
Second set of Inkvent inks! Yes, I’m behind. It’s been an absurd month as we prepare to move, with our entire plans getting derailed repeatedly, but most of this week’s news has been good so here’s hoping! Day 5: Marie Rose. Kind of an orange-brown that shows a bit of black at the edge of…
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2025 Diamine Inkvent Teal – Day 1-4
Every week this month I’ve had to completely re-evaluate all my plans and expectations. So I got a late start with Inkvent after a sudden emergency, but I’ve been swatching inks daily since I caught up and it has been a nice ritual amidst the chaos. Turns out the chaos of a house in the…
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December 2025 Ink and life
I knew that this month was very likely to go off the rails with our upcoming move, but that didn’t mean I didn’t have hopes even as I tried to build slack into my plans. One of the things I’d hoped was that I’d be able to take a little time out of my day…
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November 2025 Ink and fiber thoughts
Going with a spooky kitty theme this month, since I had a pair of good spooky kitty sticker sheets from last year’s stickii Halloween countdown. Also, some thoughts on advent-y stuff for December as I plan out the last of my year.
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October 2025 Ink Palette & Stickers
Happy Spooky Month! I’ve got a lot of Halloween-themed stickers leftover from last year’s Stickii countdown, and I’m slowly trying to make a dent in my ink samples this month. Journal Stuff My Clairefontaine Triomphe journal is a few pages from done so it’s getting retired this month. (In theory I’ll use the last pages…
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Ranking my fountain pen collection
I’ve been thinking a bunch about my fountain pen collection lately. I’m up to around 25 pens (I should probably count or something) most of which are relatively cheap ones that I got with the idea of trying a specific thing: a different nib, brand, filling mechanism, body material, size, etc. At this point I…
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Getting epubs to show emojis on kobo clara bw
For some reason, eink screens work significantly better for me when I have even the mildest of headaches, so my ereader has been an important accessibility device for me since it now means I can read something while I’m waiting for my painkillers to kick in. I currently use a Kobo Clara BW and aside…
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September 2025 Ink & Pen palette
Yup, I bought the Pelikan Pura to replace my Pelikan Twist and I have zero regrets.
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Campus vs Traveler’s blank monthly calendars (size comparison)
It’s time to bid farewell to last year’s calendar, and set up a fresh one! I’m moving from the Traveler’s Notebook free monthly calendar to the KOKUYO Campus one, mostly because the latter is a bit bigger. (Spoiler: the squares are about 18% bigger.)
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Pelikan Twist: my new favourite fountain pen for shimmer ink
I tried a Pelikan Twist for shimmer ink and it was noticeably better than any other pen I own.
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