Wilding Leather

Shout out to Mari Lwyd, objectively the best horse skeleton of all

As someone who had a flight medic certification and nearly applied to work at Jet Rescue once upon a time, there are no words for the grief I feel for the loss of the crew, the patient, and their family.

Rest easy, my brothers and sisters. We've got it from here. 💔

Sometimes you want your thoughts to be as cozy as you are in your favorite jeans, y'know?

#journal #journaling #planner #fountainpens #fpsky #inksky

Nope, it's the regular old Moleskines. Apparently the journals labeled "Made in Vietnam" offer surprisingly positive experiences.

I haven't done more than a test page, but even an extra wide fude nib with a misbehaving ink did surprisingly well!

For any of my friends grieving about what we've learned about Neil Gaiman.

May I suggest the excellent work of @alixeharrow.bsky.social ? Her books are incredible and helped me when I was in a Bad Place™, and everything I can find about her is that she's a good egg.

#booksky #books #fantasy

So uhh. Moleskine makes paper that is ACTUALLY usable with #fountainpens now? Fountain pens + Moleskine?? Mole...pen..skine...tain?

My brain is shaken.

Thanks to Jeremy of @unfinishednotebook.bsky.social who turned me on to this phenomenon, and who graciously sent me one to try.

Commonplace Goblin Need More Commonplace! Moaaaar shelf! Moooooar lamp! Mooooar noteseses! *drools*

Well wishes for a slight yet enjoyable wettening of your pen. May the gods of brass and ink bless your endeavors and bring you joyous writing. ✒️

They're so pretty!! 😍

Sometimes you just want a little guy to help you out with your fountain pens. I'm absolutely charmed by my pen crab.

A perfectly appropriate life goal!

The database build took about two weeks, plus another few days for the typesetting and document generation. The actual journal build took about 3 days.

GNU Terry Pratchett

A disclaimer page saying this journal is fan content, praising and crediting the work it's based on, and explicitly stating it's not for sale.

"Statement Fucking Ends - Tim Stoker"

Important additions:

A journal spread to a map of Central London. Handwritten at the top: "Remarkably easy to buy an axe!"

A journal opened to a Table of Contends with images of a cassette tape and an anglerfish alongside the information.

#themagnusarchives #tma

An open journal to a page saying "Characters + Avatars + Monsters: from Annabelle to Zampano

A two page journal spread covering a character called Nikola Orsinov.

#themagnusarchives #tma #handmade #journal

A heavy, leatherbound, THICK notebook in dark green with a cassette tape raised under the leather cover. Coffee cup beside it looks painfully small, because the journal is four inches thick.

A journal open to a two page spread for Episode 81: A Guest for Mister Spider. There are places for statement details, episode ratings, related characters, etc.

Hey @jonnysims.bsky.social - If one makes oneself a 1,000+ page #themagnusarchives Tome / companion journal, does it automatically count as a Leitner? 🤣 (More photos in thread)

Heh. I have Plans™ for an Ex Altiora prop binding. #tma #themagnusarchives #michaelcrewdidnothingwrong

A cheerfully whimsical notebook with four raised tapes coming off the spine, brown toward the spine and in the corners, and a cheerful sky blue for the middle. Artfully playful gold foil defines the borders between brown and blue.

A leather notebook opened flat to reveal graph paper inside

When a leatherworker and bookbinder needs a new project journal, what does she make?

Something whimsical! A faux half binding. Full leather binding, experimentation with gold foil, and experiments with new dyes.

#journals #journaling #bookbinding #planning

From The Library of Jurgen Naitner™

A leather traveler's notebook and fountain pen

A traveler's notebook insert with Pilot G2 gel pen.

A very, very thick traveler's journal.

A traveler's notebook and G2 gel pen.

Possibly the beefiest traveler's journal I've ever made, for someone who really wanted to keep everything in one place. 5.5 x 8.5, 5 inserts of 96 pages each.

Commissions are open!

#handmade #leather #journaling #planner

That is possibly my favorite robot of all time.

See, we all SAY things like this, and yet here I am working on a journal for my favorite podcast that will probably wind up being 600 to 1,000 pages.

Good luck to us both 🤣

Hard agree. Best when mixed with the in flight cran-apple they have that comes in a can and I never even think about when on the ground.

A natural colored, well patinad leather journal cover next to a blue Lamy Studio fountain pen.

Happy to help! A lot depends on the level of complexity you're looking for. But something simple like this is relatively straightforward.

Pen Review: Lamy 2000 4 Color Ballpoint (Multipen) — The Gentleman Stationer So I finally caved and bought it. After sitting in my Amazon cart for most of the year, last week I pulled the trigger and ordered the Lamy 2000 Multi Pen (which Lamy refers to as the 4-Color Ballpoin...

So uh. I'm sorry-not-sorry in advance if this costs you money. But.

The Lamy 2000 line includes a four-color ballpoint that is basically the Ultra Awesome version of the pen above, a regular ballpoint, a rollerball, and a fountain pen.

www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2016/12...

Uh oh.... someone has been Penabled™.

Welcome to fountain pens, which are the gateway drug to inks and papers.....

Hey Will! I'm Sam (she/her), I play guitars but don't build them, and I love the heck out of some fountain pens! I also make pen accessories, because somehow learning leatherwork seemed cheaper than buying leather goodies 🤣 Welcome to BlueSky!

Christmas Sameach and Merry Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, and other wintry joytimes!

Ink Review #143: Diamine Ancient Copper — Mountain of Ink Ink review of Diamine Ancient Copper.

Strong recommend for Diamine Ancient Copper. One of my tavorites! mountainofink.com/blog/diamine...