Entries tagged with stationery

Today's post brought the second of the two new fountain pens I ordered while I was on holiday last week. (Yes, this is slightly excessive. The new pen is a TWSBI Eco, which I've been hankering after for a while but trying to resist; the other one I bought is a Kaweco Sport which I ordered after discovering a stash of standard ink cartridges and wanting a nice pen to use them in.) This means that my current pen inventory is:

Black Lamy Safari with blue-black ink
Yellow Lamy Safari with royal blue ink
Pink Lamy Safari with turquoise ink
Purple Lamy Safari with purple ink
Dark teal Lamy Safari with dark teal ink
Coral Lamy Safari with coral ink
Lamy Vista (like a Safari, but clear) with grey ink with gold sparkles (J. Herbin 1670 'Caroube de Chypre')
Ohto Tasche with dark teal ink
J. Herbin transparent pen with dark red ink (but when the current cartridge runs out I will swap to orange), though I find this one a bit scratchy
Kaweco Sport with blackcurrant-purple ink (J. Herbin 'Larmes de cassis')
TWSBI Eco with teal ink (Diamine 'Aurora Borealis')

I also still have my fifteenth-birthday present Waterman, though after over 30 years it's a bit battered and has developed a tendency to cover me in ink, so I don't tend to use it any more.

It's possible I have a fountain pen problem.

Also, I can't decide whether I should make a zip-up pencil case or a pen roll to keep them in. (At the moment they're in a Paperchase pencil case shaped like an owl that folds back to convert to a pen pot, but I don't think standing fountain pens upright is optimal, really, and my other pencil case isn't big enough to fit them all.)

I appear to have spent most of my time off work ordering new stationery. First I ordered I ordered a pretty folder (with matching dividers) for my MyBodyModel templates and to use as a craft project journal. (I was originally looking for a notebook but worried about it getting too bulky if I stuck lots of things into it, so I went for a folder that looked as little like a work file as possible.) Then I ordered some pretty washi tape to stick traced drawings, or cut-outs of pattern schematics, onto pages, along with some new fountain-pen ink (in Aurora Borealis, which is a lovely greeny-blue). And then today I found a stash of standard ink cartridges in various colours and, obviously, had to order a new pen for them to go in as my usual Lamy Safaris don't take them.

This is all, obviously, entirely frivolous, but I do like nice stationery. (And it will be good to have a record of my sewing projects, and a replacement for Ravelry to track knitting projects given that Ravelry have utterly failed to address their accessibility issues so I'm not keen to give them more of my data.)

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