Link Love: Dead Week

When I read Austin Kleon’s substack newsletter this week about Dead Week, I knew that would be my theme for Link Love this week. I love the idea that the week between Christmas and New Year’s is a “dead week”. Whatever needed to be done for the year was either completed before Christmas or can wait for the start of the year.

Since I started a new job this fall, I haven’t accumulated any vacation time yet so I am going into the office this week. It’s a bit of a ghost town since most people took the week off to fully embrace Dead Week. Those of us going into the office are living out a different sort of Dead Week where we can only accomplish so much without the majority of the decision makers available to sign off on projects.

Embrace Dead Week. Whether you are working this week or taking some time off, take the pressure off yourself this week to be productive or effective. That can wait until next week. Spend an extra hour in bed or take a long hot bath, drink cocoa for breakfast and eat cereal for dinner.

Link of the Week:

• How I’m spending Dead Week (via Austin Kleon)

Year End Wrap Ups:

• 2022 Year-End Review, Part IV: Series & Editorials (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• no-buy december: year in review (via A Fleeting Ripple)
• One Year Since I Finished Chemo (via Writing at Large)
• Tina’s 2022 Tops and Flops (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Review of my 2022 sketching (via Liz Steel)

Pens:

• Onoto Rosetta Stone Unboxing and Review (via Penultimate Dave)
• Moonman vs. Pilot (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Hovering and flying fountain pens (via Bleistift)

Ink:

• Van Dieman’s Freycinet Aqumarine on Muji Planting Tree (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Vinta Holiday 2021 Inks (via Mountain of Ink)
• PenBBS Season 28 Part 1 (via Mountain of Ink)
• Diamine Inkvent 2022 Day 25: Best Wishes and Closing Thoughts (via Writing at Large)
• Ink Review #741: IWI Color of Nature Cold Dew (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Blackwing Pencil Extender Review (via The Pen Addict)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Endless Explorer (with Regalia Paper and Cotton Wallet) (via Macchiato Man)
• stickers, washi tapes, and more iv: i am beginning to think i have a problem (via ink between the teeth)
• Wellness Journal: A 90-Day Health Tracker (via Stationery Nerd)
• Diary Inserts for 2023 it is not too late…. (via Philofaxy)
• Removing/Replacing Rings (via Philofaxy)
• 5 Easy Journal Prompts When You Don’t Know What to Journal About (via Wonder Pens Blog)

Art & Creativity:

• Sketch Material Wish List for 2023 (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Life Drawing party! (via Apple-Pine)
• Everyday Situations Take an Amusing Turn in Toon Joosen’s Clever Collages (via Colossal)
• Procreate 5.3: What’s New & How To Update (via The Designest)
• Mini Review: Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Fude Pens (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Other Interesting Things:

• Book Review: The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic (via Parka Blogs)
• What’s the Weirdest Ornament You’d Hang on Your Tree? (via Hyperallergic)
• Daily Carry – December 2022 Edition (via dapprman)
• Analog Office – Bookshelf (via The Cramped)
• Our Tote Bags, Ourselves (via The Walrus)

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