[stationery] in which I am thwarted

This post is not even about how the paper Moterm use for their TN-format inserts is Not Fountain Pen Friendly, oh no. Instead it is about Notebook Charms.

You see, I keep finding myself browsing Etsy inter alia for "notebook charms", despite all the reasons I might perfectly well not want any (a faff! a propensity to tangle! nothing being quite right! is this even my #aesthetic???).

Separately, Or So I Thought, at the last Admin: the LRP event of the year I got to do my magic trick for the blacksmith (i.e. showed up at his stall holding an object he'd given up on and had no idea had been reported missing to me) and, in exchange, got a present. Not on a cord! Just the object by itself. Which, to be clear, I am delighted by -- but about which I had been having quite a "??? what??? do??? with this object???"

... so yeah this evening it finally occurred to me to combine these two Problems. I did not succeed! (For success I will need more fine motor control, via less tiredness, and also probably narrower-nosed pliers than anything I had within easy reach of the sofa). But I definitely like the idea, the pendant is now safely ensconced within the zippy pouch within the notebook, in the process of digging out the pendant I found another Object of my own I'd been increasingly antsy about having replaced, and -- most importantly of all -- I am no longer browsing Etsy. Instead I'm Considering a lies-to-children atom made out of a bicycle spoke. GOOD JOB ME.