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Glad you liked it! You did do it justice. Nahvalur is a great fountain pen for those starting a collection.

Wow! What a lovely pen! Thank you for reviewing. ❤❤❤❤❤

It’s gorgeous!!

You did outdid yourself! 😄 I love the web in the background and I agree that the fact that it tore is just all part of the vibe.

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Love the torn cardstock and beautiful card.🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧♥

I love that black! How often do you clean the twbis with the cho kuro?

The tag system is wonderful and I learned more about ink. Thank you again, Mike. 💗🏳‍🌈

I love watching ink swatches, thank you ! The square block is actually nice for that purpose… not everything has to be in circles all the time. 😊 I don’t use the card system myself, I have a collections binder in personal size with 3 sections: pen collection sorted by brand, pen collection sorted by current ink color and ink swatches sorted by color. But since it’s also a ring system, it gives me the same flexibility… 😊 BTW, Pilot offers the Iroshizuku inks in 15ml bottles as well… don‘t know if you can get them in the US, but here in Europe you can buy them at Stilo&Stile. I always go for the 50ml bottles though… the smaller ones are almost half the price of the big ones and contain less than a third of the ink… Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis not so good… 😂 Plus they are my favorite inks, so I use them a lot.

I like the tag idea. Easier to move stuff around. I recently bought a set of swatch cards by Wearingeul that have the Cheshire Cat’s face as a resist so when you ink the card you reveal his grin. Maybe I’ll punch those and put them on a ring. I definitely would write all the ink names in black, but I’d also write some short phrase in the ink itself on each one. The inks can look so different in a big swatch than they do in writing. I am so interested to hear what you think of the Sailor pens. That sale has me extra wanting one - I played with one at the Yoseka Stationery Fest and loved it.

Love the tag system. Anything that allows you to quickly flip through is always fun and functional.

LOL You have such an adorably fun personality. Love your cute fun hobonichi haul! I decided not to get anything super duper big this year - I just got the Spy x Family cover with the pencil boards and envelopes. Went minimal as I am going with a different planner system for 2025 :) But...my gosh, I love all the neutral cream colors on the inside of the elephan cover. Very lovely! Thanks for sharing!

The five year cover does settle on eventually. I put a Kaweco sport fountain pen with clip in the loop, and keep it all closed with a rivet band. It's perfect sized for the A6. Fabulous haul by the way!

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I love the elephant cover! I have never seen this one before! Maybe it’s a Hobonichi website exclusive? I used the Hobonichi Cousin for the first time this year and there were a lot of things I liked about the Techo layout. However, there are things that I don’t, so I went with Sterling Ink this year for an A6 EDC and an A5 desktop (undated daily pages.) What it doesn’t have is changing grid colors/monthly colors, the red/dark grey for Sat/Sun, the quote at the bottom of the page, and generally much less visually “busy.” For my needs, I need it to have the reduced visual distractions (and I just don’t care about random quotes…they just took up real estate, were visually distracting (I had a TBI so visual distractions on a page make it harder to read) and I like my own quotes that I find and put in where I feel like it (former Bujo person, also. It worked wonderfully for years, but I needed some more structure already done for me, so I have the Hobonichi a try.) P.S. I love your glasses those are so fun! I think the stamps you got look like about the right size to fill up an “hour” of time in the weekly…they’re cute, regardless!

Love this. The Five Year will fit perfectly soon, it just needs to wiggle around a bit. It’s such a lovely colour (I have it too). I see the pen loop has been explained already 😊

Loved the bat!

Oh my we are kindred spirits! I started out with card making, found fountain pens and have just recently fell down the Hobonichi Coffee Monster Co rabbit hole. I started playing around with various Hobonichi planners mid-way through the year and was hooked. Just received my new goodies to plan for 2025. I see others have posted about the loops on the planner covers. I learned this as well, some are for the full pen while others just the clip. I’m going to look and see if you’ve shared some of your fountain pens on here to see what you enjoy. Have a great day and happy planning and card making. And pfffff!!! You are a very artistic person!!! Your cards are amazing!!!! ❤

Just subbed. You had me at Hobonichi. I look forward to seeing your content.

The pen-loop for the 5 year is meant for just the clip of the pen to go through, not the whole pen. 🙂 Love the elephant cover!

The hobonichi website recommends to not use a cover on cover with this cover because it is thicker than their usual covers. I have seen comments about using a hairdyer on the COC to make it fit, not sure about that though.

Hi, The pen loop on the 5 yr is for the pen clip only not the pen. 😊

I’ve been influenced, 😊

The plastic cover on covers are made for the pen tabbed cover like you got this year. The previous botanical Tomitaro Makino covers are smaller and the cover on cover do not fit. Silly because it’s such a pretty cover and would want it to get dirty. The pen loops on the 5 year cover make no sense to me. But the clip on my TWSBI fits and pen rests nicely inside the cover. I also use a rivet band around it for extra pop of color and keeps pen secure.

I am new to journaling, really enjoyed your video!!!!

Now I want one ❤

The vellum on black is so sharp looking! ♥️ 🐈‍⬛ 🎃

Super cute packaging. Thank you for sharing the Ferris Wheel Press ink colors. 🖊️

Love the new colors! They are all beautiful but I really like the green and gold. Thanks you for showing us. ❤❤❤❤❤

Waffle Flower has a stamp line specifically for swatches. Maybe dies too, but I can’t remember. Swatch organization products would help tidy up your swatches. There’s also Jennifer McGuire’s system using square pieces of paper and coin pockets. I think ultimately you would want a system that is more flexible than a journal. A journal with swatches makes it harder to compare colors or match colors to paper. Tim Holtz uses tags and a cable ring for seemingly everything. I swatch on tags too, but I use Jane Davenport’s mermaid tail tag die because it has a die that cuts an opening in the tag that makes it easier to compare the colors in a way that helps me figure out the portions of color. Miraculously I liked the green ink best. I’m so much more into reds and pinks. I liked the clarity of the green one though and felt like the red and pink inks felt murky.

I think your Halloween 🎃 card is fabulous especially the web. I also think your pink glasses are ace. Yvonne

Love how the web turned out. Great card. 💜

Adore the sparkly kitty!!

Great way to use those stamps, Ricky! I hope you're feeling better. We've now settled in Wisconsin for the foreseeable future, but I've been lucky enough to travel to different places and live in a few myself. I agree that these experiences shape us.

Not into Halloween but love the joy die cut

Classic colours and elegant design

Beautiful Card.

I love that bird, and your card is so serene. I can't wait for the new release! Have a great trip!

It was a nice tutorial for a truly beachy card. Thanks for [posting.

♥️ your clean and simple sandpiper card. Enjoy your family vacay. ☀️

So Cute!!!

Thank you. Beautiful card. I’m hope that you feel better soon. It is sometimes harder to not know why we feel that way. I’m glad we have you to inspire us.

Very colorful! I love those umbrellas! Thank you!

the stencils!!!

The card is so much fun for summer. Come back to Florida where we have endless summers! You are so talented and funny. Thank you for being an inspiration for everyone.🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧🤟🧤

Where do your eyeglasses come from? You have so many fun pairs.

Man do I feel your pain on the August thing! I live at 8,000' in the Colorado mountains and every year at this time I ask myself if I can do winter one. more. year.! I always think of the song, 'Boys of Summer' right now lol I'm sure glad it's not as bad as what you're describing there, but, I'm a summer girl darn it! Hang in there buddy! You're not alone! 😊❤ Great card! 👍🏻🤗

Loving the Kelly Taylor design. Would love to learn more about the paper glazes. I am new to the card crafting world and still learning about all the products.

When you said we might hear your dog, I giggled because I looked for our dog at the nails clicking. 👵🏻🤣

Ricky, quit showing off on here, there hasn’t been a FM podcast since June! By the way did you sign up for the Chicago Pelikan hub in September