Just a bit of nerdiness on my part.  I caved to the hype and downloaded Instagram onto my phone.  I wish it didn't take up so much space but unlike competitors, no harassing ads.

(I like the old-camera filter.)

 

The box underneath the pretty chest is fountain/dip pen supplies: a lot of ink and nibs and holders.

 

The pretty chest on top is ALSO supplies: high-grade paper, cleaning solutions, poor-man's blotting paper (i.e., Kleenex), high-grade lined notebooks.

It's kinda hard to see, but phone.  This is Speedball brand acrylic-based ink.

 

I tried using this kind of ink on a low-grade, school- quality paper and the results were not pretty.  The surface of the paper was very coarse—every few words I had to tweeze bits of paper fibers out of the nib; there was ink bleed, rendering the letters all smooshy; and the paper itself made the high-grade acrylic ink look more like magic marker.

 

OK, I'm done being nerdy for now.

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Need to hurry up and upload pics from the con I went to onto my photobucket page.  Right now I don't feel like screwing around with the storage card though.

I need to hurry it up though.

I managed to net an epic Cid.