It’s only Wednesday and already this week has been an adventure. Monday was the Monday of all Mondays and deserves no more acknowledgement than that. Tuesday, however, I got to see one of my favorite authors speak. John Scalzi was in town to promote his new book Monsters of Ohio. He is very fun to hear speak and my pal Mai and I got to celebrate our second anniversary as friends — we met at the LAST Scalzi book event in town, if you can believe it. A big shoutout to Mai for inviting me into her found family. As a result of meeting her, I’ve met a bunch of other people who I now call friends too.
Then this morning, as Bob was leaving for work we found a Luna Moth caterpillar winding his way along our porch bannister. I lured him onto a twig and took him to our backyard which seemed like a better, safer place to call home. Maybe, in a few weeks or in the spring, I will get to witness out little caterpillar in his full glory.
Have you seen or done anything interesting this week? Let me know in the comments!
Pens:
- Review: Arrtx Acrylic Paint Markers with Brush Tips (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
- Cuddles In A Cup: Handmade Halloween InkJoy Pen Review (via Fountain Pen Chronicles)
- Review: Majohn P139 fountain pen with flex nib (via Parka Blogs)
Ink:
- Jacques Herbin – Brun Eiffel (via inkxplorations)
Pencils:
- Product Review: Staedtler Mars Lumograph Colour Aquarell Pencils (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Ask TGS: Are There Fountain Pen Friendly Sticky Notes? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- The Best Weekly Planners (via JetPens Blog)
- FULL REVEAL of the Archer & Olive 2026 Winter Collection (via Archer and Olive Blog)
- Creating a Dopamine Menu (via Archer and Olive Blog)
Art & Creativity:
- Thinking about colour temperature (via Liz Steel)
- Not-So-Limited Palette (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- On My Table: Beginning of November 2026 (via Apple-Pine)
- Book Review: My Travels in Japan: A Comic Book Artist’s Amazing Journey (via Parka Blogs)
Other Interesting Things:
- Cognitive distortion pedals (via Austin Kleon)
- Artist Review: iPad mini OLED 2026 with Apple Pencil Pro (via Parka Blogs)
- Arkivism Is an Accessible Antidote to AI with 4 Million+ Public Domain Images (via Colossal)
- Staying Cool at the Airport (via Kottke.org)
- A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively… (via Kottke.org)
- Visit to Hachimonjiya Honten, Yamagata, Japan (via Inkcredible Colours)
- Bloggiversary. Fountain pen blog is 10! (via Fountain pen blog)
- This beautiful and frustrating hobby (via A Gathering of Curiosities)
- Stationery Favourites – October 2026 (via Inky Imaginings)
- One Week with a Flip Phone (via The Cramped)
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