August 2025 Ink Palette and stuff

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We’ve reached August! House hunting is going ok but we’re back in the US while we push offers through our real estate agents. It was a good trip but I’m very happy to have air conditioning again: I had a few days without headache for the first time in two weeks once I got home. I was definitely a lot more irritable than I should have been this trip, but knowing it’s because of the heat doesn’t really stop it from happening. Thank goodness for the city pool and my mother’s house full of old toys my kid has never seen before.

August 2025 journal supplies (fountain pens, ink, stickers). More details in post.

Fountain Pens & inks

Since I have the vacuum pen filled with yama-budo, I made this palette from that as a starting point. I do love a teal + dark fuschia vibe.

  • TWSBI Swipe <1.1 stub> – Diamine Wishing Tree from Inkvent black, day 9. (Grey with green sparkle.)
  • Pilot E95S <medium> – Diamine Aurora Borealis (dark teal with a bit of red sheen)
  • Nahvalur Original Plus <1.1 stub> – Pilot Iroshizuku yama-budo (pinkish burgundy)

We’ll see if the shimmer ink drives me crazy in a week.

Stickers

  • August calendar from By Mossy Pine
  • Overly sparkly sea creature ice creams from Stickii (I want to love these but honestly I find the holographic effect hard to look at. The art is cute, though!)
  • Tiny dessert stickers from Mind Wave (for calendar tracking)

And some small washi tape that my kid would describe as “cyan” because he thinks everything blue-ish is cyan.

Now that I’m back at home, I’m working on some paperwork and pull requests and trying to finish “The Grimmoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association” before it has to go back to the library. It’s been a pretty funny book since a lot of the “what the heck is going on, why are you giving the adults homework” vibes of “my kid is starting kindergarten” are very familiar to me even if *my* kid isn’t a werewolf in a magic school. I should probably work on my resume soonish but I’m choosing to give myself more time without recruiter emails while I deal with house stuff. So next week might be “do new crafts” week instead, plus writing time! But so far today has been “play Breath of the Wild” day and honestly I think it’s as important as anything else on my todo list because I *really* need to work through the burnout and I know games are a thing that works for me.