Pen/Ink/Paper Trios

[Bo Bo Olson]

7 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

All of the LIFE paper I have tried has been some shade of ivory and not bright white. 

After l looked harder, it is that some shade of ivory and not a white...but if not paying attention; and not used often, with such a small booklet....still a good paper.

 

[Penguincollector]

14 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

After l looked harder, it is that some shade of ivory and not a white...but if not paying attention; and not used often, with such a small booklet....still a good paper.

 

    It’s a beautiful paper. I am fond of ivory and cream papers for writing, it’s easier on my eyes. It also can make some inks look really different than they do on white paper.  I also really love colored lined paper; to some people it’s very juvenile, but I enjoy a bit of kawaii. 

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector then you’d like the Midori colored notebooks that are last chance at Jet Pens. I have them, and they are fountain pen friendly. 
 

A second check shows only two of the six colors are left, brown and yellow covers. 

[Penguincollector]

6 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector then you’d like the Midori colored notebooks that are last chance at Jet Pens. I have them, and they are fountain pen friendly. 
 

A second check shows only two of the six colors are left, brown and yellow covers. 

  I looked for these notebooks on google shopping, and I found them in other places. They’re pretty, and seem like a good item to tack onto an order to make free shipping. Thanks for letting me know about them! 

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector you are welcome. 
 

I had to post here because there is just something about the Levenger True Writer French Impressionists pen with F nib filled with J Herbin Terre de Feu writing in a Leuchtturm notebook. I don’t usually get along with F nibs. But this one, this ink, and that paper like each other.  

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector you are welcome. 
 

I had to post here because there is just something about the Levenger True Writer French Impressionists pen with F nib filled with J Herbin Terre de Feu writing in a Leuchtturm notebook. I don’t usually get along with F nibs. But this one, this ink, and that paper like each other.  

 I would love to see this combination, would you mind posting a picture?

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector maybe in a different Leuchtturm. The one I write in is personal. But I have some others I could write for here. I’ll work on that tomorrow. 

[Penguincollector]

8 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector maybe in a different Leuchtturm. The one I write in is personal. But I have some others I could write for here. I’ll work on that tomorrow. 

 Thank you! I enjoy your handwriting. There was a writing sample you showed recently that had a really pretty lowercase g that caught my eye. 

[Misfit]

Here is the trio I mentioned in a Leuchtturm pocket notebook in Port Red. 
 

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

Here is the trio I mentioned in a Leuchtturm pocket notebook in Port Red. 
 

 

  What a perfect match the Terre de Feu is for your True Writer! That’s a beautiful trio, @Misfit! I’m happy to see that you’re enjoying a fine nib.  I will say that I am unused to you writing with a round nib, but it suits your hand.

[inkstainedruth]

@Misfit -- Oh Terre de Feu looks like a nice color....  (Like I REALLY need more ink..... ).

And this is why I always warn new folks about the enablers....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

  I did notice the notebook also matches eventually. That’s cool!

[Misfit]

49 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Misfit -- Oh Terre de Feu looks like a nice color....  (Like I REALLY need more ink..... ).

And this is why I always warn new folks about the enablers....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Terre de Feu looks good on cream paper, white too, but quite good on cream colored paper if you have a lot of notebooks or loose sheets of it. Maybe keep it in mind when you need to meet free shipping. 

[Misfit]

34 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I did notice the notebook also matches eventually. That’s cool!

I was initially using that notebook when I was trying to count birds for Project FeederWatch. I found it hard to count with bad hours, so the notebook has been sitting. It was the first Leuchtturm notebook I could think of to post my trio. 

[inkstainedruth]

17 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Maybe keep it in mind when you need to meet free shipping. 

There's a thought.  But I've also put it on my tentative shopping list for OPS the end of the month -- assuming of course, that I don't blow my budget on repairs of the pens I keep finding at estate sales and antiques shops ; I've already gotten more than a dozen tentatively packed, including the 51 Vac I picked up last weekend (fortunately, the Parker 45 I bought at the same sale just needed a good flushing out, and there was already a converter installed in it...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: But have just added that ink to the spreadsheet of "current pen/ink shopping", just in case.... 

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

I was initially using that notebook when I was trying to count birds for Project FeederWatch. I found it hard to count with bad hours, so the notebook has been sitting. It was the first Leuchtturm notebook I could think of to post my trio. 

  That sounds like fun, I will look into that. 

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector it is run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You pay them a fee under $20.  This gets a large color printout of birds that visit feeders, and instructions. It runs from November through early April. You count birds visiting your feeders, eating on the ground, or waiting to eat for two consecutive days. You submit the counts to their website. In signing up, you describe your yard, as in how many trees and bushes, the type of feeders you are using to feed birds. That kind of thing. 
 

The one thing about constantly feeding the birds is other animals will eat that food too. Plus where there are birds, there are predators that eat birds, including hawks. You do get to report hawks to Project FeederWatch. 

The nice thing is they call counters citizen scientists. And the more years you count, you help them see trends over time.  There was an eye disease affecting House Finches when I was counting. I have several apps that helped me identify the birds that showed up. Taking photos for comparison to the app images helps. 
 

Back when I was doing well at counting, I had a notebook I got from Barnes and Noble that had a bird on the cover. It was more like a silhouette of a bird. It was the perfect size for writing my count information. Oh, you have to track weather too. High and low temperatures, precipitation, and snow. 
 

Here is the notebook I used for bird counting several years ago. It was 4” x 6”.  I really liked that notebook. I wish B&N still had their Apostrophe line of notebooks. They were cool. 
 

[Penguincollector]

8 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector it is run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You pay them a fee under $20.  This gets a large color printout of birds that visit feeders, and instructions. It runs from November through early April. You count birds visiting your feeders, eating on the ground, or waiting to eat for two consecutive days. You submit the counts to their website. In signing up, you describe your yard, as in how many trees and bushes, the type of feeders you are using to feed birds. That kind of thing. 
 

The one thing about constantly feeding the birds is other animals will eat that food too. Plus where there are birds, there are predators that eat birds, including hawks. You do get to report hawks to Project FeederWatch. 

The nice thing is they call counters citizen scientists. And the more years you count, you help them see trends over time.  There was an eye disease affecting House Finches when I was counting. I have several apps that helped me identify the birds that showed up. Taking photos for comparison to the app images helps. 
 

Back when I was doing well at counting, I had a notebook I got from Barnes and Noble that had a bird on the cover. It was more like a silhouette of a bird. It was the perfect size for writing my count information. Oh, you have to track weather too. High and low temperatures, precipitation, and snow. 
 

Here is the notebook I used for bird counting several years ago. It was 4” x 6”.  I really liked that notebook. I wish B&N still had their Apostrophe line of notebooks. They were cool. 
 

  Thanks for letting me know about this counting project! My garden is geared towards hummingbirds, but we get all kinds of ground foragers, finches, chickadees, corvids, and some hawks/falcons/other raptors. I’ll check out the website and see if it’s something I can commit to. 

  That’s a cute notebook, B&N is a great source sometimes, but the lesson I learnt is to buy more notebooks from them as soon as you realize that they’re good ones. My last journal was bought there (in 2000, found a few years ago in my stash) and the paper is superb. I have spent years trying to find the same paper. 
 

[Misfit]

5 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

That’s a cute notebook, B&N is a great source sometimes, but the lesson I learnt is to buy more notebooks from them as soon as you realize that they’re good ones.

This is a lesson I learned much too late. Very wise words. 

[inkstainedruth]

14 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector it is run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You pay them a fee under $20.  This gets a large color printout of birds that visit feeders, and instructions. It runs from November through early April. You count birds visiting your feeders, eating on the ground, or waiting to eat for two consecutive days. You submit the counts to their website. In signing up, you describe your yard, as in how many trees and bushes, the type of feeders you are using to feed birds. That kind of thing. 
 

The one thing about constantly feeding the birds is other animals will eat that food too. Plus where there are birds, there are predators that eat birds, including hawks. You do get to report hawks to Project FeederWatch. 

The nice thing is they call counters citizen scientists. And the more years you count, you help them see trends over time.  There was an eye disease affecting House Finches when I was counting. I have several apps that helped me identify the birds that showed up. Taking photos for comparison to the app images helps. 
 

Back when I was doing well at counting, I had a notebook I got from Barnes and Noble that had a bird on the cover. It was more like a silhouette of a bird. It was the perfect size for writing my count information. Oh, you have to track weather too. High and low temperatures, precipitation, and snow. 
 

Here is the notebook I used for bird counting several years ago. It was 4” x 6”.  I really liked that notebook. I wish B&N still had their Apostrophe line of notebooks. They were cool. 
 

Years ago, my mom would do the annual Aubobon Society bird count (I think that was done on New Year's Day).  She had some little books that showed what the different birds looked like, and would sit in the dining room looking with binoculars through the sliding glass doors out to the deck, which is where my dad put the bird feeder for her.  One year she saw quite a variety -- but a couple of years later, after mockingbirds moved into the vicinity, she saw a lot fewer different ones: the mockingbirds apparently chased a lot of the other "local" birds away... not to mention dive-bombing the cat who adopted my parents (his real owners lived diagonally behind us) and also the cat who belonged to the people who lived directly behind us...). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth