I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[Penguincollector]

I have a stationery jp sticky note pad coming, it’s part of a Platinum cartridge set. Nothing else on the horizon, but I do have to go grocery shopping and the journals were on clearance last time I was there.

[Misfit]

I got two deliveries today. A Jet Pens order with a customizable Uni Style Fit ( body pen in black with refills. Plus a RayMay pen case, and a syringe. I like the looks of the Jet Pens syringe with the millimeters markings. The Field Notes arrived as well. 

[Runnin_Ute]

Just placed an order from Jet Pens for two 100 sheet packs of Tomoe River Sanzen 52 gsm and a pack of Life Touch Airmail envelopes to get to the free shipping threshold. My Tomogawa TR is almost gone. Probably less than 10 sheets.

[amberleadavis]

My name is Amber, I am an addict.  It has been one day since I resisted temptation.  I don't count the days when I cannot go out.  Today, I didn't go to the office supply store or the local B&Ms that I like to frequent and instead, I bought text books and Legos  (for my son).  I left Lego-Less and Habit-Less.

[inkypete]

4 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

My name is Amber, I am an addict.  It has been one day since I resisted temptation.  I don't count the days when I cannot go out.  Today, I didn't go to the office supply store or the local B&Ms that I like to frequent and instead, I bought text books and Legos  (for my son).  I left Lego-Less and Habit-Less.

You are amongst friends.

[amberleadavis]

10 hours ago, inkypete said:

You are amongst friends.

 

Thank you.

[essayfaire]

15 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

My name is Amber, I am an addict.  It has been one day since I resisted temptation.  I don't count the days when I cannot go out.  Today, I didn't go to the office supply store or the local B&Ms that I like to frequent and instead, I bought text books and Legos  (for my son).  I left Lego-Less and Habit-Less.

Thank you, Amber.  We've all been there.

[Misfit]

A nice person here sent me notebooks. They match pens I got at Five Below. I have ordered Field Notes, and oh, more Field Notes. I’m a buyer, but not always a user.  

[Misfit]

I saw these Field Notes on Reddit. They come from a website that primarily sells clothing for the medical profession. The customizable multi pen in red is a Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto 1000. It is plastic, but sort of looks metallic, and is a very pretty red. The Field Notes with the images on the cover is blank paper, and the other two have lined paper. 
 

[jandrew]

Just opened a new box (3-pack) of Elemental Paper Proton fieldbooks to put a fresh one in my notebook. Too bad Elemental is no longer around, but I do have two more boxes after this one, so still good for a while (not 'out and about' too much these days).

[Misfit]

Oh lucky you @jandrew I only bought one pack of Elemental because I thought they would be around longer. Mine is Electron. 

[amberleadavis]

On 1/17/2023 at 2:00 PM, Misfit said:

A nice person here sent me notebooks. They match pens I got at Five Below. I have ordered Field Notes, and oh, more Field Notes. I’m a buyer, but not always a user.  

 

Did anyone send you Zebras in the mail?

[Misfit]

On 1/19/2023 at 7:07 PM, amberleadavis said:

 

Did anyone send you Zebras in the mail?

Why yes, I forgot that Stationery Junkie is more than paper. The wonderful, generous, super cool @amberleadavissent me not only a Zebra highlighter and rollerball, she also sent Pilot pens (not fountain pens) she likes.  I tried putting a Pilot Precise Grip in my Sherpa cover, and wasn’t sure if the inside piece secured it completely for capping.  I’ll try again. I never knew Zebra made highlighters. 
 

Speaking of zebras… did you know they can’t be tamed?  Yet you can feed a zebra with approved food at a drive through animal park.  

[AmandaW]

15 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Stationery Junkie is more than paper.

Oh good. Here goes... I am fed up with my swatching tools - a flat brush and a dip pen made out of a Jinhao nib in a dip nib holder - and thinking I need (???) a brass Kakimori nib. Am I nuts? I wouldn't need a handle, it could replace the Jinhao nib, so there is that. But then I want to get the Sailor Hocoro fude and 2.0, but the latter isn't in stock. Maybe I get the Kakimori brass nib and the Hocoro fude. That would leave the risk of  getting the Kakimori stainless steel nib and the  Hocoro 2.0 some day. Now I am sure I am nuts cos this isn't the right place to be talked down is it?

[A Smug Dill]

5 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

But then I want to get the Sailor Hocoro fude and 2.0, but the latter isn't in stock. …‹snip›… Now I am sure I am nuts cos this isn't the right place to be talked down is it? 

 

If you really want them, so badly that you don't find their asking price a deterrent and in spite of my (and others') anecdotal feedback that the nib units have a bit of wobble, I'll check to see if they fit inside a ‘large letter’ mailer, and if they do, send you my two Hocoro pens with those exact nibs next week, no strings attached.

[AmandaW]

45 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

If you really want them, so badly that you don't find their asking price a deterrent and in spite of my (and others') anecdotal feedback that the nib units have a bit of wobble

Exactly. I do still want them because they can be used to draw with sumi ink. but with a proper fountain pen nib rather than a catchy dip nib. And a Sailor nib at that. I figured I can ignore the wobble. I love the smell of sumi ink.

[A Smug Dill]

2 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

Exactly.

 

OK, I'll go check.

 

2 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

I love the smell of sumi ink.

 

I can so understand that. I just can't stand the wobble; it adds a quarter of a century to my age (past my use-by date) if random, faceless, completely irrelevant handwriting analysis experts were to assess what those Hocoro pens put down for me on the page.

[amberleadavis]

3 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Oh good. Here goes... I am fed up with my swatching tools - a flat brush and a dip pen made out of a Jinhao nib in a dip nib holder - and thinking I need (???) a brass Kakimori nib. Am I nuts? I wouldn't need a handle, it could replace the Jinhao nib, so there is that. But then I want to get the Sailor Hocoro fude and 2.0, but the latter isn't in stock. Maybe I get the Kakimori brass nib and the Hocoro fude. That would leave the risk of  getting the Kakimori stainless steel nib and the  Hocoro 2.0 some day. Now I am sure I am nuts cos this isn't the right place to be talked down is it?

 

Amanda, you are in the land of the Serendipity.

 

https://pensivepens.com.au/products/serendipity-hybrid-pen

 

It is awesome for swatching inks.

[InkyColors]

4 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Amanda, you are in the land of the Serendipity.

 

https://pensivepens.com.au/products/serendipity-hybrid-pen

 

It is awesome for swatching inks.

Thank you Amber for posting this. I had wanted one of these in the past but had resisted. One of my journals is color coded and it seems like I never have the right ink in a pen when I need it. Hopefully this will solve the problem. I do use DeAtramentis document inks in that journal, so I hope they are easy to clean out of this pen (and work well with it.)  I’ve placed my order. Now for the waiting. 

[OCArt]

Or you could go vintage and get a Esterbrook desk pen. They often show up on eBay for under $20 or double that with the 444 base. They look like this:

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Esterbrook-444h.jpg