Muji goodies overview

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Here’s another “teaser” post of the goodies qDot brought me back from his most recent trip to Taipei, Taiwan. I got a couple new pairs of silly socks and lots of goodies from Muji. I am apparently never allowed in one. :) I pretty much sent him the entire website and said “get this”.

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A list of the (relevant) items he got me are a pencil case, three hex pens, two gel pens, a fine point grip ballpoint pen, a clear pen body with an ingeniously packaged (pink) refill, a little sketchbook with a tie closure, a roll of clear cello tape, a tape dispenser, a set of three (tan, maroon, grey – Muji’s colours) washi tape rolls, a set of kitty notes, and for himself a little plastic case of figured paper clips (of houses, piggies and foxes). Oh, and I cannot forget what I’m super excited about, the Lego/Muji paper play set and hole punch. He got me the Basic set to start. I cannot wait to start playing with it, but I don’t want to use the actual paper, but scan it in and print a copy so I can use that and keep the original pristine. Neurotic, I know. :)

Here are some more (phone) overview pics. I’ll focus on individual items in their own posts.

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New iPhone, better phone pix

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Just got a new iPhone 4S so mobile posting will now have better pics (less grain!) can’t promise I’ll be posting more but it’ll help! Oh, the joy of remembering *every* password you’ve ever used to sign into everything all over again! :)

Here’s a test of (one of) my bedside pen cups.

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These are some cute figural page flags the SO got me in Taiwan. This is using the flash (LOVE!)

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Both these were taken from within the WP mobile app. Not bad! Not DSLR quality, but definitely better than the 3GS I was using.

Ok. Back to regularly scheduled… chaos. :)

BTW if you got here from my comment on the JetPens FB page, welcome! just wanna say this is still a massive work in progress. Comment and say hi!

New favourite in rotation, Pen of the Day #17

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My current favourite pen to use, that I’ve been picking up for most things is my recently acquired Kaweco Pink Ice Sport with medium nib. I was waiting to get one because I wanted to get a pink version of the whole line (I’ll probably post on it, but it includes a clutch pencil, rollerballs, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, etc.) and was hoping to buy them all from one supplier so I would be less likely to get vastly different shades of pink for each item.

However, I got really impatient and finally caved on the fountain pen. I got it at Goulet Pens (they of the evil awesomeness that is hundreds of available ink samples and stunningly excellent and personal customer service – no I don’t work there or get stuff from them, they are just people who love pens and ink and love sharing those loves and do so at a good price). I think it might have been on sale which is why I finally pulled the trigger on the purchase. :)

In the same order I also got three spring/seasonal ink samples from Pilot Iroshizuku. I really adore their bottles, the beauty of the colours, the modern vibrancy yet still with a sense of history and nature. Plus I’ve never heard a bad review other than some with slower dry times which doesn’t impact my ink decisions. I go by colour primarily.

I wanted samples for spring that would coincide with when I’d be using them. I must admit that the idea of using different specific inks seasonally really appeals to me. Only the most “me” colours in their line are all fall and winter ones (not normally a YAY SPRING kind of person) so I only got three samples to try that were if not “spring”, then non-specific (unsure about glory vine’s seasonality)
Tsuki-yo (Moonlight)
yama-budo (crimson glory vine)
Tsutsuji (Azalea)

So when I got my Ice Sport, I decided to ink it up with the colour I’d not pick first, the blue, Tsuki-yo. I must say it is *stunning*. I’ll do a proper review of it before I run out, but it’s a smoky teal blue with so much depth and character. It made me like blue ink. :)

Here’s a quick pic of the (Medium nib) Kaweco Pink Ice Sport with Tsuki-yo ink in the cartridge. It wasn’t done for the blog, but to show someone the grip section, but it’s all I’ve got at 12:30am. :) I’ll update with more shots of the pen and nib.

Thanks for looking! Happy creating!

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protracted tease

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clearly i haven’t gotten to the tease I mentioned last post. The mono sleepiness and exhaustion has hit me hard and I’m still trying to find my limitations and abilities. I have been working on some other stuff and made a couple other interesting finds, so there’s lots in the pipeline, just nothing getting posted because of my limited awake AND functional time. I’m trying to take care of myself and work on the apartment a bit (we’re wanting to move, badly) and that takes pretty much 100% of my useful awake time. I spend most of the other time writing posts in my head, but that doesn’t get them posted. :/

Anyway, I haven’t forgotten, just been having to prioritise so I won’t have this sick happen again!

Thanks for your patience,
-Kelly

A sketch of a little penguin I did for a friend in the meantime:

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tease

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A full post tomorrow, but I’m *crosses fingers* starting to feel a bit better. I stopped in at my favourite specialty stationery boutique/letterpress shop after a doctor’s appointment and was super excited to see they have Traveler’s notebooks!! I picked up a passport size perf-ed one and two other goodies. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow (sometime soon!)! :D

pencil sharpener, electric

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Here are a few pics of my electric (3-prong US outlet) electric pencil sharpener. It has a metal case so it’s a prime spot for random magnets. I got this from my father. He came home one day when I was a young teen with it and an equally heavy duty metal-housed wall-plugged electric eraser (yes, awesome, to be featured at another time). A friend tweeted about her father bringing one home that ate pencils and so coloured her view of them since. It probably had no “auto-stop” as this one claims to have. It doesn’t exactly “stop” it just makes a different whirring noise and no longer “eats” the pencil.

I have no idea how old this is (at least 20 years, quite a few more judging from the seventies faux bois case) or if it’s still being made. All I know is it’s brilliant, and the only thing that won’t murder Prismacolor pencils. I should probably look up more info on it. I’ll add more when I find it. (I’m finally on to the sleep-all-the-hours point in my case of mono. I just happened to be awake and the tweet inspired me and my new twitter client wouldn’t post the pics to a service, so I figured I’d just put them here.)

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update and a neat product

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Dang. I just lost my first draft of this.

I’m too tired to rehash it word for word, but what I had been experiencing as bronchitis and strep throat actually are most likely mono (mononucleosis ). I’ll know for sure on Tuesday when I get my labs back.

I had a lucky (ish) very bad allergic reaction to the new antibiotics they gave me for strep otherwise I wouldn’t have gone in and that’s how they figured it out. I had it once before in 8th grade, but I was a kid and sick a lot (though never before this sick) so I don’t really remember how long the sore throat lasted. Once I’m past that and just in the sleep-all-day bit, I’ll be back to the blog!

I have been getting pictures of things and I have a few I’m working on colour correcting and tweaking a bit, and I’m trying to get more done when I’m having a few good minutes. I’ve also got the actual site design sketched out and will be finalising it in the computer once I can sit at it for awhile. These are definitely things I’ll be doing as soon as this throat settles down.

In the meantime, thanks for sticking with me through this health roller coaster ride and I can’t wait to start promoting once I get things finally designed. (What are your thoughts on Inky, the geek squid up top? She was supposed to have cat-eye glasses but I’m having difficulty with getting the *right* shape for her. :) Squid don’t have noses!)

Now here’s something to help hold you over until I am feeling a bit better. These are pics I took of the incredibly awesome Noodler’s Blue Ghost in action last year after I got my ink drop with it (August 2011, Flashlight Tag) from Goulet Pens.

Before, an ivory-papered sketchbook paper
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After: with the lights out and the UV led shining on the exact same page!! How stinking awesome is that?! SO cool!
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Sketchbook: red hardcover cloth bound square hand•book, purchased at Artist & Craftsman Supply in Berkeley with my own money.
Pen: Preppy Platinum (pink) highlighter marker / chisel fibre-nib already converted by the lovely folks at Goulet Pens to an eye dropper fill (pen, necessary supplies and instructions to convert your own can be found on their website). Pen and mini UV LED were part of a purchased ink delivery subscription (Ink Drop) from aforementioned Goulet Pens. I paid for the subscription myself.
Images just filtered through instagram for fun. Colour is representative.