hobby of the day
May. 22nd, 2021 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettToday I have mostly been self-soothing by playing around with A's collection of fountain pens, various, from back when it was his hobby of the day, and also by window-shopping. I think I am dithering toward replacing the Pilot Penmanship FP60 I broke the other day by kneeling on it (in such a way that ink did not go all over either the sofa or my trousers, through a combination of both luck and judgement), and also toward getting something with an italic nib for the sake of Fancy Writing.
The Pilot Penmanship is acquirable for £12, which is the basis on which A got me one as a present in the first place without me doing a Concern about What If I Don't Like It (or indeed What If I Break It, as I promptly did), and I think I am still sufficiently interested in Experimenting with it as a primary writing tool that having another go at it isn't wildly unreasonable.
The italic nib I want almost entirely for the purposes of decorative writing in my ongoing journal, and otherwise Messing Around. I have very nearly convinced myself that "I'll enjoy it" is a good enough reason to get (1) it, and (2) a variety of blue sparkly inks.
If this is one of your hobbies also, I would very much enjoy reading your Thoughts And Opinions on the general topic.
The Pilot Penmanship is acquirable for £12, which is the basis on which A got me one as a present in the first place without me doing a Concern about What If I Don't Like It (or indeed What If I Break It, as I promptly did), and I think I am still sufficiently interested in Experimenting with it as a primary writing tool that having another go at it isn't wildly unreasonable.
The italic nib I want almost entirely for the purposes of decorative writing in my ongoing journal, and otherwise Messing Around. I have very nearly convinced myself that "I'll enjoy it" is a good enough reason to get (1) it, and (2) a variety of blue sparkly inks.
If this is one of your hobbies also, I would very much enjoy reading your Thoughts And Opinions on the general topic.
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Date: 2021-05-29 04:33 pm (UTC)I am currently trying to work out what all the handwriting options (for beginners) are, and mostly struggling to get the internet to spit out anything that isn't Cursive For Eight Year Olds -- but I am catching up with some of the todo list that was neglected in the final phase of Thesis Swamp, so I am intending to spend some more time down that particular rabbit hole sometime soon...