I don’t celebrate Easter, but this week I’m working on a new chicken which is full of spring pastels, just in time for Easter. So today I give you an Easter palette: PenBBS #131 – Eagles over London Sailor Shikiori Yozakura Stipula Dark Grey/Grigio Lava
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Thread + Ink: Spring greens.
This week I tried a new to me craft: embroidery. While I stitched on the Positive Plants kit from MCreativeJ ($31) my eye was one again drawn to my Col-o-Dex and all the ink colors it contains. This was was downright easy: Robert Oster Sublime Banmi Deep Green Colorverse Alpha Centauri C’mon spring!
Life Hack: Washi Tape Storage
Sometimes at the end of the day instead of doomscrolling I flip over to TikTok with the idea of watching a few inane videos. But every now and again something catches my attention and I’m sure my husband is tired of me saying “hey I saw this great hack on TikTok.” We all have washi…
Yarn + Ink Palette: Spring is Coming
This week is unseasonably warm and full of sunshine and it’s doing everything to raise my spirits. I’m also working on a new chicken for The City Girl Farm in an interesting mix of colors. I thought this post would be easy, until I went to pull inks swatched from my stash and didn’t find…
Journaling Reflections
At the beginning of this year, I looked at what was going on in the world around me, as well as my desire to journal a bit, and decided that I was tired of saving the good supplies for “one day” and that there was no time like the present. So I pulled out the…
How many pens are in a collection?
How many pens make a collection? I ask because, well, I seem to have developed a little Kaweco AL Sport habit. At first I didn’t find the Kawecos aesthetically pleasing. I was fresh off a Lamy Safari experience with a molded grip that I didn’t enjoy and I didn’t want anything that was faceted. And…
Giveaway Winner: Laban 300 Skeleton Fountain Pen in Rose Gold
Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for the Laban 300 Skeleton Fountain Pen in Rose Gold. So many good ideas for inks! And so many of you who focused on the morbid skeleton/blood connection…. Alas, there can be only one winner, and that winner is Karen: Karen – I can’t wait to see it!