I have moved on to the “swatch the unswatched” phase of my Ink 100 Project. Check out my previous posts including, Part 1: Admitting I have a Problem and Part 2: Color Inventory is Hard. I needed to swatch 37 bottles of ink in order to move forward in my Ink 100 project. It was…
Showing all posts by Ana
Giveaway: 2024 Colors of Lamy AL-Star or Safari?
For years, my friends and I have played the “Safari Forever vs AL-Star Always” when we see the “colors of the year” released by Lamy. Some years, we have felt like Safari won and other years AL-Star. One year, we all agreed that Kaweco’s release of their five fruity colors stole Lamy’s thunder. We even…
Link Love: The Most Friendly Niche on the Internet
Jesi sent me a link to this video above because I get dizzy on TikTok. For your convenience, I am including the YouTube link if you too are not TikTok savvy either. The point of this video is that when the pen community has controversy, we end up being pretty nice about it. It just…
My Ink 100: Part 2 – Color Inventory is Hard
My phase two of my Ink 100 destash project is not going AT ALL according to plan. I needed to pull swatches for every color ink I own from my numerous Col-o-rings and sort them by color in an effort to streamline the sorting process. This was a slow process which required pulling ink out…
Link Love: Eclipse After Effects
I feel like I am still feeling the lingering effects of the eclipse. The magic of doing something with hundreds of thousands of other people, witnessing a cosmic wonder, and just playing hooky from work or school to do so has really fueled my last week. I hope you are still feeling the cosmic wonder…
Tag: You Can Only Keep One (the pen edition) #youcanonlykeepone
The concept and tag, You Can Only Keep One (#youcanonlykeepone), was sent to me by Rachel from Rachel’s Reflections. The idea is to go through your collection of pens and choose just one example from each brand. My list is going to be a completely theoretical game because their are many pens brands that I…
My Ink 100: Part 1 – Admitting I Have a Problem
For some absurd reason I got it in my head that I’d like to pare down my ink collection to 100 bottles or fewer. This random number, 100, seems like more ink that I could ever use in my lifetime or need, right? Thinking about the ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet)…