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April 2025 ink palette & journal supplies
Let’s try getting this posted before the end of the month this time! Here’s what I’m using for journal/calendar stuff this month, with some mini reviews of the supplies I’ve used already. Notebook As I mentioned last month, I’m starting a new notebook for April even though my iroful one isn’t quite full, because I…
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March 2025 ink palette & journal supplies
I took these pictures back at the beginning of March and never posted them, so you get them on the last day instead! Stickers March’s Fountain Pen/Ink Combos: Since this is the end of the month, I’ll say that all of these worked out pretty well, but I did have a bunch of hard starts…
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February Ink Palette + Pens + Stickers
People actually responded to my January ink palette so I’m encouraged enough to post one for February! I’m starting with just 4 inks this month. My current plan is to also rotate in some of the other pens I have inked if I want a few more colours (I have a few on my desk…
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January Ink Palette / Spinning
Happy new year! I haven’t decided if I’m going to record my ink selections on the blog all year, since they’re already recorded in my journal itself, but I like seeing other people’s choices so here’s January’s inks!
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Fiber Goals 2025
This is my 10th year setting “fiber goals” as a fun way to direct my crafting for the year. I’ve come to feel like setting goals around creativity and joy and focusing on accomplishing things I want to do is important. Especially in contrast to a lot of traditional new year’s goals that are kind…
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Fiber Goals 2024: How did I do?
My 2024 fiber goals were as follows: I already did a mid-year 2024 writeup so I’m just going to talk about the second half of the year here. Gift yarn I finished the lighthouse shawl: And I started in on a pair of socks with a funny colourway called “Introverts Unite” that apparently I haven’t…
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Fiber Goals from years past
This year is the 10th year I’ll be doing fiber goals, and I wanted to revisit some previous year’s goals, so I’m starting by making myself a mega post with all of them to contemplate.
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Finish or Frog Along Wrap-up
I still spend more time knitting than using fountain pens but you wouldn’t know it from the blog posts I write! So let’s do a bit of an update. In September / October a group of fediverse folk do “Finish or Frog Along” (formerly Fall Finish Along, but now with a better name for people…
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How is my new journal setup working for me?
I’m already 2/3 of the way through my current journal! I blame fountain pens and have some thoughts about what’s working and what needs adjustment.
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Shark Pen!
It’s a fountain pen shaped like a shark! It’s made by Jinhao, who are known for making cheap but often decent fountain pens. It sounds like not all of their pens are winners because quality control isn’t great but if you’re willing to roll the dice and don’t mind that the design may be a…
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A trip to Oblation Papers
I had a little bit of solo time on my way home from BSidesPDX in October, so I stopped by Oblation Papers. I couldn’t remember if I’d ever visited before — maybe once when I was visiting before we moved to the area? Anyhow, it’s very pretty: I mostly went to look around, but I…
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Mirroring known vulnerability data globally, for free.
If you just want the answer to “where do I find a reliable global mirror of NVD vulnerability data?” the answer is https://cveb.in/ . It is being mirrored on the same servers used for major open source projects so you’re probably already trusting them. If you want to hear the story of how we got…
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