This meme got sent around my friends last week. At the time, I wasn’t convinced that 2022 had really started out all that badly. Then I had three different people tell me they were exposed to COVID, two that are suffering from it and I live in a community where the politicians have chosen to…
Even as we roll into our third year of the pandemic, the end of the year is still a time to reflect on the previous year and make plans, goals and, hopefully, new beginnings for the next year. This week’s Link Love is filled with reflections on 2021 and plans for a better 2022. Despite…
I started this blog post this morning and thought, foolishly, that I would have time in the middle of the day to finish. HAHAHAHA! So, in the spirit of my guilty pleasure drunk snack, this is the Late Night Last Call (Jalepeno Popper) Edition of Link Love. So, grab your favorite bag of snacks and…
The end of the calendar year always provides a mix of posts looking back over the year and looking forward to the new year. I can’t help but filter 2021 through the lens of the pandemic. The news of the Omicron variant has only exacerbated the likelihood that 2022 will be our third year in…
This week was a very Peri-week. Every design-related blog I follow posted about Pantone’s 2022 color of the year: Very Peri. Or to the rest of us, periwinkle. After 2021’s bi-polar color selections of isolation mopey grey and hopeful pale yellow, Pantone suggests that 2022 will be a more vibrant year. I love color and…
I had grand plans this morning to write about all the Diamine Inkvent inks — both this year’s set and the Fountain Pen Pharmacist’s post about the 2019 set. However, I got whammied with a headache today so you’ll have to believe me when I say I had great wisdom about the inks. Or maybe…
I was delighted to be able to open the first window on my Diamine Inkvent Calendar this morning. I am sharing a peek of the window but I will save the ink swatches for later so I don’t spoil the surprise for anyone. We will be doing our annual Inkmas starting Monday, Dec. 13 and…
