I love to see other folks’ sketchbooks and notebooks. I love to see a beautiful but REAL sketchbook. I like the variety of ink testing and landscape sketches and Claudia @The_Cloudy_Desk has a beautiful balance of both. Now, I’ll let Claudia of Cloudy Desk tell you a bit about themself. Hi, I’m Claudia aka The…
I am such a sucker when it comes to unusual colors in pens and highlighters. So when I saw the Writech Retractable Highlighter (6-Color Set – Neutral) ($13 per set) I knew I had to give them a whirl. The set was particularly interesting because the pens are RETRACTABLE! I don’t think I’ve ever used…
I finished the Orilium Fall Equinox Magical Readathon Challenge this weekend. Its another in a long list of ways I’m gamifying my life. The challenge started on September 1 and is filled with various RPG-style challenges to inspire participants to read more. I read about eight books so far (the seven shown above as well…
Last week I decided to take on the challenge to use only “starter pens” for a week. I picked out all the Platinum Preppy pens I have and a franken-Pilot Prera. I tried to follow a similar process to Derek’s original challenge but had to modify it a little bit to make the challenge work…
I have reviewed a few sets of the Pentel Sign Brush Pen ($2.50 each) over the last couple years including the Fluorescent and the 2020 Special Color Set. What I’ve never ‘fessed up to publicly is that I have slowly been adding individual markers to my collection until I essentially have almost every color. I…
We have just listed our new zine: Gamify Your Life Players Handbook (2nd Edition) ($12 for zine, $20 for kit)– “Make it Fun to Get Sh*t Done”. This zine was created to accompany my workshops of the same name but I’ve packed it full of enough information that I think it is a great jumpstart…
We had a few lovely, cool mornings about a week ago and I got so excited that Autumn was finally here. But no. I live in the Midwest and that was FAKE FALL. The temps have zipped back up to 90ºF for the past week and, even as a human lizard that prefers warm weather,…
