Monday Miscellany

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daringtolivefully.com, from the pen cup, journal prompts, marelisa fabrega, sbre brown, the nerd journals

Marelisa Fabrega has a wonderful web site: daringtolivefully.com. Her post, 119 Journal Prompts for your Journal Jar, had some really great ideas for journaling. I like the honesty prompts about the biggest lie I’ve ever told, or nobody knows….. But I think my favorite has to be the 100 Things I Love prompt. Such a good mental exercise when the world seems hell-bent on making things difficult. Check out her other posts too. Great stuff.

Mary at From The Pen Cup wrote a very moving post about the loss of two beloved pets in the same week, and how a package from SBRE Brown cheered her up a little. The power of pens and tea.

And finally a video by Erica, also known as The Nerd Journals on YouTube, of all of her filled notebooks as of the end of 2014. They just look so LOVED!!

 

 

Monday Miscellany

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fontoplumo, paper mate, paper mate flair, quinn creative, sbre brown, the pen addict

Loved this post from Quinn Creative on finding yourself instead of trying to be someone new, in regards to New Year’s Resolutions. Great advice! I think that will be copied into my journal.

Beautiful review of PaperMate Flair Pens from The Pen Addict. Love the colours.

SBRE Brown introduced a new sponsor of his endeavours: http://www.fontoplumo.nl/. Beautiful site and they ship internationally!

Monday Miscellany

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fountain pen day, penny kittle, sbre brown, scription, sharing our notebooks

I LOVE this post on Sharing Our Notebooks by Penny Kittle: My Writing Notebook is Always With Me. The picture she shares of her notebook shelves remind me of my own, although I am still in the multi-coloured phase of my notebook accumulating. And don’t miss the charming video; it’s a must see for journallers and wannabe journallers. Fantastic stuff.

Another inspiring post on Scription called Everyday Inspirations Through Putting Yourself in Hardship, is it Necessary? Thought-provoking post on our “treasures” and the difficulty of letting them go. I love this quote especially:

If your body carries a soul, your notebook should carry your mind.

And finally if you haven’t seen SBRE Brown’s Fountain Pen Day video, head over to his blog right now and watch it. The herald and champion of our deep-rooted love of fountain pens has done it again. And enter the giveaway while you are there!

Happy writing everyone!

Monday Miscellany

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productiveluddite.com, rhomany's realm, ryman blog, sbre brown, the pen habit

I really enjoyed watching Rhomany’s video on the Really Big Notebook from productiveluddite.com. I visited their website and they have some really great notebooks which they ship anywhere for free. And – if you buy a notebook they plant ten trees. How cool is that?

I watched SBRE Brown’s video called Time for Some Kind Words for the Pen Habit and it made me sad. Matt puts so much production value into his videos and it’s disheartening that negative voices on YouTube made him feel so bad about what he was doing. Be sure to read his touching blog post to get the full picture about why he is taking a hiatus from posting videos. I applaud him for taking control of his life.

And I know I tend to flog this idea to death, but here is yet another article from Ryman Blog on why writing by hand helps you to remember things and to study better and just to be a better person all round.

Until next time, happy writing!

 

Monday Miscellany

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cleveland browns, empathic teacher, monologue notebooks, sbre brown, school supply dance, wall street journal

So here’s another roundup of articles and sites that interested me this week:

The Empathic Teacher talks about how she loves paper and notebooks, even in this digital age, and even when she has to lug around 30 composition books.

Millie at Planet Millie introduces us to Monologue notebooks, which I think are fantastic. Look at the pen loop that is incorporated into the back cover! And the mini notebook with its ingenious elastic closure. And stay tuned because she’s going to be hosting a giveaway of these notebooks soon.

Mr. Brown has his own website! Yes you can now visit SBRE Brown at his website and look for that obscure pen video you think you saw him do two years ago. It’s an invaluable resource and database of all the knowledge he has shared with us over the years. Well done Mr. Brown!

I am absolutely in love with Melinda’s planner pages which she shares in her 2014 Updates post on School Supply Dance. Each page is different; some hand drawn, some computer designed and printed. Lovely.

And finally I think I have decided the Cleveland Browns are my favourite football team; I do not watch nor do I understand football but this article about them and their un-hackable notebooks in the Wall Street Journal melted my heart. Enjoy.

 

Journal Writing Wednesday: 12 pages

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de atramentis, goldspot, j. herbin, monteverde prima, saint ephraim, sbre brown, stephen brown

Journal I’m currently using: the Embossed Italian Journal

Total pages written since last JWW post (May 21): 12

Total pages to date since project inception (Dec 11/13): 340

Total pages written in 2014: 285

Total number of notebooks/pens/ink bought since self-imposed spending freeze (Jan 1/14): 7

• 1 pen + 1 bottle of ink = 2 items in a gift set on Jan 14
  
• 1 bottle of KoninginneNach-Blauw from Akkerman on Feb 5
• 1 Visconti Rembrandt Calligraphy set in Red = 2 items (pen and ink bottle; not going to count the extra nib!) from Goldspot on May 15
• 1 bottle of J. Herbin Bleu Pervenche from Goldspot on May 15
• 1 bottle of De Atramentis Heather Violet from Goldspot on May 15

Topics covered since last update:

• Bought an extremely inexpensive charm bracelet on ebay. It came with 10 charms, 2 of which are a fountain pen and book! I will show them in a future blog post
• Last week I forgot to mention I got a bottle of J. Herbin Bleu Pervenche and a bottle of De Atramentis Heather Violet in the same Goldspot order as the Visconti Rembrandt. I’ve never put anything but Bleu Pervenche in my Monteverde Prima and when the cartridges ran out I had to buy a bottle. And the Heather Violet I bought (I will admit it) because of the name. I’m really glad I did because it is a beautiful shade of pink. More future blog posts!
• I am a big fan of SBRE Brown on Youtube and I watched his video Personal Questions with SBRE Brown, Part 2. He quoted an incredibly beautiful prayer by Saint Ephraim which I promptly copied into my journal. The video is long but worth it.
• Went a bit crazy on ebay – more future blog posts ha ha!
• Had a lovely surprise at work this week; David sent me flowers for our anniversary. They are beautiful and I feel very special. He pointed out this is technically my second gift because he bought me the Visconti set. Yes I’m spoiled. I bought him an Amazon gift card which he loved. Eight years married – where has the time gone?