While April weather is a crap shoot — one day warm and sunny, the next day is frost warnings and grey, spitting rain, it seems like plants and gardening have been on my mind. Lots of the flowering shrubs are blooming bring vibrant pinks and yellows to our neighborhood after months of grey and it makes my heart sing. Coincidentally, Austin Kleon posted about “proplifting” this week. While I’ve never stolen a cutting from a garden center, I have received cuttings from friends and, for the first time in my life, I’ve actually been able to propagate new plants from the cuttings. I trimmed back my basil plant and its sprouting in new places just like I hoped so I’m getting more confident about my gardening skills. While I am not super outdoorsy I do love plants and have always been able to keep them alive but now I’m feeling more confident about my skills and looking forward to extending my gardening skills. Do you garden? Do you document your plantings in a journal? Have you ever “proplifted”?
Posts of the Week:
- Proplifting (via Austin Kleon)
Pens:
- How I make color brush pens (via Austin Kleon)
- How to fix a skipping fountain pen (via The Pen Company Blog)
- Comparative Overview: Lamy Dialog 3 & Lamy Dialog CC (via Scrively)
- Montblanc’s Final Patron of Art Collection Celebrates Victoria and Albert (via JCK)
- Capping my Pen Collection (via Pen Investigations)
- Fawning Over Flora (via Penquisition)
- 2022 “Best Pens” List Update Is Now Live! (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- Why It’s Time to Stop Reflexively Avoiding Gold Trim: The Caran d’Ache 849 “Gold Bar” and Others (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- Dip Pens & Fountain Pens: Not as Similar as You Think (via The Postman’s Knock)
- Types of Pens: How to Pick a Pen with the Right Ink (via JetPens Blog)
- Guide to Fountain Pen Nibs (via Cult Pens Blog)
Ink:
- Platinum Pigment Red Rose Ink Is a Good Match for the New Lamy Safari in Strawberry (via Chicana Writes)
- Bungubox L’Amant Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Vinta Harlequin Bodabil (via Mountain of Ink)
- Kakimori Kurun (via Mountain of Ink)
- Lennon Tool Bar Nahu on Leuchtturm1917 (via Inkcredible Colours)
- Lennon Tool Bar Watermelon (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- J. Herbin – Vert Empire & Corail des Tropiques (via Inkaholic)
- ScriBo Inks (via dapprman)
- Wearingeul Beneath the Wheel Ink Review: Monthly World Literature Ink Collection (via Pen Chalet)
- Pennonia Cheerio Waterbus Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Winter diary walkthrough (via Austin Kleon)
- Big Sister Sendak (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- How I copy quotes from a library book (via Austin Kleon)
- Maruman Croquis Pocket Series Notebook Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Keeping a Notebook PERFECTLY (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
- crazy horses: galen leather a5 folio (via A Fleeting Ripple)
- A recipe for mindfulness (via Nero’s Notes Blog)
- Woody Guthrie’s Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)
- My analog task migration system, for when life lives outside of my plans (via mnmlscholar)
Art & Creativity:
- Spring Sketches (via Abigail Halpin)
- 271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Cataloged Thousands of Color Swatches in a Book From the 17th Century (via Design You Trust)
Other Interesting Things:
- Meditation, Hold the Frustration (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- Writer Shed podcast interview (via The Typewriter Revolution blog)
- Letter from Paris: Doris Day Lied to Me (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- A Short Film Collages Chicago’s Past and Present in a Profound Look at the City’s History of Activism (via Colossal)
- A Set of Notecards Celebrates Pysanka, the Ukrainian Tradition of Egg Decorating (via Colossal)
- How to present yourself authentically in a job interview (via It’s Nice That)
- Theater of The Bauhaus: An Illustrated Guide to Total Art from 1925 (via Design You Trust)
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