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A wood pen storage box with 10 fountain pens visible through the glass lid.
You Can Keep Only One?!

Happy Fountain Pen Day! Hypothetically, if I could only keep one pen from each brand, which pens would I choose?

A scrap of dark green batik fabric and multiple green wall paint swatches hung on a white wall.
Layers of Color

I have relatively large control over the appearance of my living environment, and I choose to surround myself in color.

Collage of Pennonia shimmer colors, a leafy green tree art piece, and a rainbow of mixed ink colors on paper
St. Jude 2024 Campaign Update and Milestone Stream Recaps

There's less than a week left to support St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital during September! I've completed three special Twitch stream topics unlocked by donations so far.

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2024 San Francisco Pen Show

I wanted to visit a new pen show this year, a bigger show, and "The Fun Pen Show" in San Francisco did not disappoint!

Screenshot of a Twitch VOD of swatching inks on Col-o-dex and Col-o-ring cards
Relay for St. Jude (2024)

For the sixth year the Relay podcast network community is supporting the life-saving work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and I've created a sub-campaign with Twitch streams and custom rewards featuring fountain pens and inks!

Sheet of paper with ink swatches and a selection of 5 different swatching tools.
Ink Swatching Tools

I do a lot of fountain pen ink swatching, so finding reusable tools that would produce a good swatch and could be cleaned quickly and easily at my desk was important.

Small pouch and notebook on a restaurant table.
Pen Meetup Toolkit

Join me for a "bag dump" of the pouch of accessories and tools that I bring when meeting up with pen friends.

A small wooden tray with col-o-dex cards of ink swatches sorted by color.
120 Col-o-dex Cards

In mid-April I started on a project to re-swatch all my inks on Col-o-dex cards with little sketches inspired by the ink name, packaging, and/or color. Now four months in, I took a look back at the process so far.