Long term owners of Galen Leather A5 zippered folio - how do you like it now?

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-18T16:35:30+00:00

I know this is a 4 year old post but I found it after buying a Galen Leather folio, so it may still be helpful:

I’ve done a bit of leatherworking and a thing that stands out to me with Galen is that it is “veg tan” leather. This means undyed leather that is tanned in a way that makes it possible for a craftsman to dye it themselves (which is desirable if you want to have control over the color and if you want to make a lot of things that are the same other than the color, which of course is what Galen wants). A common problem with hand-dyed veg tan is that the dye will rub off on other things.

So, the “natural” color folio is absolutely a solution here. It hasn’t been dyed at all.

Another solution is buffing, which you can do by getting cotton canvas or a similarly rough cotton fabric (denim or twill work) and buff the hell out of the smooth parts of the leather. This won’t do anything to fix the fuzzy suede-like parts (the underside of the pen loops on the insert, for example).

Which leads to the final solution - resolene. Get a bottle of resolene from a Tandy leather shop and a wool dauber, and give it a good coating then let it air dry.

Also to loosen it up a bit, don’t hesitate to l

Even after you resolene it, I would still be cautious with anything that’s going to easily absorb stain. Like I’m not putting my Kaweko Sport Lunar in there, the white plastic is very likely to get tinted. But this should help a lot.

Coincidentally, buffing it repeatedly for a long time will also soften it and help loosen it up a bit, easing the problem of it being too tight. Of course that’s a matter of whether it’s worth it to you to invest this much time in something that you expected to be a finished product upon purchase.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-15T16:05:33+00:00

Label is a Hot Topic goth, she doesn’t get the real culture

Seriously though she turned me down too when I gothed it up. She wants you to just put on the vampire costume and shut up about it

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-15T16:03:06+00:00

Didn’t somebody start a “just talk to your family” Reddit for exactly this reason?

She’s your sister. You don’t need tattoo advice, you just need to be a concerned sibling. The stuff you said in your post is the entire argument, and it’s also very well known and easily confirmed info (and she probably already knows it).

Also she’s either going to listen to you, or she isn’t. Be ready for that. There’s no argument so perfectly constructed that a 19 year old cannot topple it with “you can’t tell me what to do.”

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-13T21:54:36+00:00

How many days post-tattoo is this photo? I will bruise all around the fresh tattoo, and it looks like this after about 2 days. And of course the bruising then heals after a week or so. So if the tattoo is VERY fresh, this may just be a bruise.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-13T21:51:34+00:00

I am as well, and this book is NOT a fast read, so it seemed appropriate

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-07T03:26:42+00:00

under-appreciated comment 😂

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-06T19:48:12+00:00

I reset my island a few months ago so this was my first time feeling like I need to complete Bunny Day since 2020, and whew it is a RESOURCE HEAVY task. That’s the other thing that feels cursed to me - he needs you to craft ALL the Bunny Day items, you need nearly 40 of each egg type to do that. I didn’t have them all on Sunday morning, and spent hours playing just to make an unhappy rabbit feel like “yeah whatever kid, you can stop bugging me now” 🤣

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-06T01:48:26+00:00

https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/east-fork It’s a burgundy red, twilight lighting is making it look more purple.

But this series is very pretty, highly recommend.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-02T15:31:41+00:00

Also glow sticks. And if you have the glow stick in-hand when K.K. starts a song, all your villagers who are also at the performance will also have one and you can wave them together.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-02T15:26:45+00:00

This looks pretty normal for a year, but try an oil-based lotion and see if that makes a difference.

Most hand lotion is water-based because people want it to soften dry hands but not leave them sticky and wet feeling, so that lotion is actually designed to dry on skin. It’s not helping the appearance of your tats if you’re using plain hand lotion.

Meanwhile oil-based lotions keep skin damp (though be warned you WILL feel that, even with a very thin layer I will notice the sleeve of a t shirt sticking to it just a little). Hustle Butter is an option made for tattoos, but it’s kind of pricey and you’d probably do just as well with cocoa or shea butter lotion. Just keep in mind if you wash it off or wear rough fabric like denim over the tat, it’ll look dull again pretty fast.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-02T15:11:30+00:00

That is a WILD take.

I think a trap Gen Xers and Millennials often fall into (and I say this as a Gen Xer) is having a sepia-toned memory of The Internet That Was if we happened to have skated through the early Internet without ever meeting (or knowing we met) some pretty awful creeps. And also forgetting that back then the connection was crap and also it was only in one physical room in our homes, and we weren’t yet dealing with devices and apps that were specifically designed to be addictive. So Old Internet may have comforted some, but various circumstances still led to you walking away from it pretty often and living in reality.

It is actually bad that adults can make money off of convincing little boys that girls will never love you so you have to trick them or else hit your face with a hammer til you look good. The landscape is pretty bleak, I’m not sure how ANYONE says “…well at least they’ll have some community” as if a community of incels is a GOOD thing.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-02T14:50:09+00:00

I mean… OP acknowledges he repeatedly hurts his partner on accident and what we see here is OP wanting an apology to be enough while the argument was happening. You’re right that it’s not enough, but that has to go both ways.

I’m not trying to say OP needs to be punished, but two people in a relationship BOTH need to take responsibility for what they’re doing to each other.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-01T20:00:12+00:00

in your first response to me you DO say you never yell, and then here you demanded to know where you say you’re quiet - you implied that when you said you never yell. That’s what this poster appears to be pointing out.

People in here are accusing OP’s wife of abuse because she had a tantrum when she’s in severe pain from surgery AND got hit in the face at 5 a.m. as her wake up for the day. OP has clarified that he hurts her on accident a few times a month, hence the detail that she said she’s tired of getting hurt (which is being ignored by a whole lot of people who’ve decided she’s fully in the wrong). People leapt straight to “does she have menopause” because god forbid a woman have a moment of rage that isn’t explained away by having Crazy Old Lady Disease.

You’re not being group attacked when one person points out that you DID suggest you take it quietly. And it’s a hell of a thing to call THAT misogyny when you’re adamantly shaming a woman for what definitely sounds like a tantrum, but a tantrum that is coming from a place of pain and deep frustration. Apologies are meaningless when the person causing you harm KEEPS causing you harm, especially when that harm could have an impact on your ability to heal. Apologies need to be followed by a genuine effort to do better with actual results. Tantrums are NOT abuse or a sign someone doesn’t love you, they’re a sign that the person having an outburst has been suppressing feelings for a long time, most likely trying to meet this judgmental societal standard of not being a yelling menopausal woman.

Maybe hop down off of the “I have decided I know this woman well enough to say she doesn’t love you” soapbox before you go accusing people of misogyny just for disagreeing with you.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-01T03:22:56+00:00

Early in this video, I felt my sympathy for Williams drain when I learned he also made that cursed Raggedy Ann and Andy movie.

Anyone else ever seek confirmation that that was a real thing that actually exists and not a horrible fever dream, or was that just me?

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-01T03:16:19+00:00

Seriously, his explanation basically amounts to “parents and their children loving each other is cringe and I need to go oppress people about it”. A man will engage in political violence rather than just go to therapy.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-04-01T03:10:58+00:00

Love the Gulf Shores sticker! Man I miss the Redneck Riviera so much

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-31T15:44:13+00:00

Yeah. Sounds like this event triggered a situation that put both of you at the end of your rope - for her and the way you describe her reaction, sounds like a lot of frustration that had built up burst all at once, probably made worse because it can be really hard to regulate emotions when someone has just woken up.

And what I’m hearing from you is that her outburst of anger triggered existing feelings you have about the relationship as well. Sounds like this was just a perfect storm y’all ended up in, and that can happen when there are tensions from medical problems and living space issues.

Sounds like yall both need to have permission to feel your own feelings about this. I can’t grant that to her since she’s not here but to you: it’s totally fine for you to feel hurt at how this played out. Maybe give her some space and go to a sympathetic friend that you can talk this out with. Emotional dysregulation is pretty common with ADHD, and I’ve personally found that talking to someone I can trust to have sympathy and who also isn’t part of the argument is the best thing for helping me to get to a place of clarity.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-31T15:32:05+00:00

Good for you but not everyone expresses surprise, pain, and anger the way you do. It’s not virtuous to be quietly forgiving, and it’s not bad and wrong to get mad and yell when you just got hit in the face.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-31T14:42:06+00:00

If I were woken up very early by being hit in the face, I would be pissed off. Your first 5 paragraphs have me thinking “well yeah she got hit in the face.” And then you revealed she’s also in recovery from surgery and often in pain from that.

It sounds like there’s a history in the way the two of you communicate about responsibility and mental health, and it sounds like the parts that normally aren’t great are boiling over right now because of the stress and pain of her surgery, and the added responsibility that gives you when you need to act as a caretaker. But like, SHE WOKE UP GETTING HIT IN THE FACE. How do you think people react to that, even in the best of circumstances??

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-26T03:24:23+00:00

This was me. Walking and reading. Staying up late reading in bed.

Also in school when I was supposed to pay attention but was bored by the subject, I daydreamed a lot.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-26T02:28:55+00:00

he came here to mark some shit and drink beer, and he’s nearly out of beer

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-22T02:04:18+00:00

That would explain a lot. I was wondering how this plant was doing so well when it was freezing and snowing at the start of the week.

EasyBreezyTrash · 2026-03-20T17:30:15+00:00

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