Tag: 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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Swatch Wednesday: Colorverse Black Hole
This was a gift from a friend who said it was more for the fun little bottle than anything exciting about the ink. It’s a pretty cute little bottle and I didn’t have one since I think the only colorverse ink I have is a sample. Love that little picture on the front. The bottle…
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An order from Wonder Pens
I have done my first stationary order since moving back to Canada! I was looking specifically for a clip for my Kaweco Liliput, which had unfortunately been falling out of my pen case enough that I was worried about losing it, and a couple of extra traveler’s notebooks in the regular size for my commuter…
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2025 Diamine Inkvent Teal – Day 17-20
Still settling in to the new house. We’ve prepped a couple of rooms for painting but then the furnace decided it would just sometimes not turn on in the middle of a cold snap, and cold rooms are hard to paint. New thermostat is supposedly coming today and we really hope that’s the problem. It…
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2025 Diamine Inkvent Teal – Day 13-16
Another belated Inkvent post for swatch Wednesday! I didn’t bother doing inkvent posts in December because of the move, and in theory now that some of our stuff has arrived I could probably be unpacking instead of blogging about ink. But our stuff got separated into two shipments and a lot of the furniture is…
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Happy New Year! January 2026 Life and Ink
We made it! Plan “get the dog and us across the country with an RV and our friend who loves driving across the country” was a total success.
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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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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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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.