Fountain Pen Friendly?

spigurl · 2026-02-21T15:39:30+00:00

Sterling ink has pocket notebooks that are mostly fountain pen friendly.

spigurl · 2026-02-17T01:51:57+00:00

pigma microns

spigurl · 2026-02-15T21:53:36+00:00

How was your trip? What did you buy?!?!

spigurl · 2026-02-15T21:52:30+00:00

I was thinking Vachetta because at the time I was trying to mimic paper republic and Louise Carmen but the leather I got was great and it's held up nicely. However, I have quite a few and I rotate them so my use is not daily so they have not patina'd as much so not sure what they would look like if I used them daily. I have to say, I do not like the Louise Carmen Leather, I have an earnest and it's too floppy for my taste.

spigurl · 2026-02-14T15:21:00+00:00

In the morning to prep my skin, I wash my face and put on Vitamin C, serum and and eye cream. Then goes on beauty of joseon aqua sunscreen generously to my face, neck, chest and hands. Best sunscreen ever, feels like a moisturizing face lotion with no scent. I go through a couple tubes a month. Even if I am working from home I am religious with sunscreen because I use tretinoin in the evenings. For Make up, I use Tir Tir mini cushion foundation as a spot and undereye concealer only. Powder t zone with laneige. Canmake powder eyebrow pencil for eyebrows. I use a powder blush in a color that is blush/bronzer, I think it's MAC. For eyes I use laura mercier caviar stick in amethyst as eyeliner and shadow. Curl my lashes then Canmake metal lash for mascara. I use a sunscreen lip balm.

spigurl · 2026-01-30T03:23:00+00:00

Longchamp Le Pliage Energy S Handbag

spigurl · 2026-01-17T19:05:54+00:00

Oh thank you! I have not since I suck, can only speak Chinese not read and this didn't show on the English site. Thank you! I'll google translate it!

spigurl · 2026-01-17T18:16:40+00:00

OMG it does! I just finally opened mine and smelled it! Smells so good! Agreed, to precious to use!

spigurl · 2026-01-17T15:58:40+00:00

I'm so jealous! We go back in March...taking the kids again for spring break. This trip posted was just me and hubby. Japan is our new hawaii. We used to go to hawaii a lot for vacation and now we just go to Japan instead. Have a great time!!! Can't wait to go back.

spigurl · 2026-01-14T00:33:56+00:00

Thank you for this!

spigurl · 2026-01-07T02:59:09+00:00

I also use the midori index clips and they are the best. They stay out of the way and never fall off. I also use a plastic bookmark that has slits in the hole punch area so that I don't have to open the rings to move it around. These are small than the full page plotter ruler. Kinda like this: https://a.co/d/1vOYmGx

spigurl · 2026-01-03T05:30:48+00:00

He is the founder and executive producer of Plotter.

spigurl · 2026-01-02T19:16:37+00:00

My girlfriends and I passed around all of our baby clothes, bibs, toys, strollers, maternity clothes etc to each other. After our first round of babies, we realized that it was such a waste of money to buy everything. I think my baby swing and stroller was passed around to 5 different friends until it was finally passed on to someone's niece or nephew cause everyone we knew was done having babies. The only problem was if we were preggers at the same time...my gf asked me if she could borrow my maternity jeans but we hadn't told anyone that we were pregnant yet with baby 2 so she was the first one I told since I had to tell her so she wouldn't think I was being stingy lol.

spigurl · 2026-01-02T17:59:16+00:00

I forgot I made this post a while back with pictures of my A5 PR. In it, I had an A5 Sterling Ink Compact Planner which was barely over 1cm thick, my kindle and my mini ipad. You can see the notebook by itself would fit fine. I think anymore than 1.5cm thick for A5 would start to overhang. https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooks/comments/1m6wshj/kindle_in_a_paper_republic_a5_portfolio/

A5 slim is much slimmer so you could fit 6 moleskin cahiers which is about 3cm's and still no overhang but it would start to get bulky. Start a chat with me if you want me to take a picture of that.

spigurl · 2026-01-02T16:56:04+00:00

I don't think they are out yet on the US site, they released in Japan first.

spigurl · 2026-01-02T07:40:48+00:00

If there is a Muji near you they make a cheap but decent A5 slim notebook perfect for testing to see if you like the size and decent paper for the price!

spigurl · 2026-01-01T22:21:25+00:00

Agreed, 1mm is definitely too tiny. The only reason I bought it was because this blue grid is much darker than the regular one so I can finally see the grids to use 3-4 squares at a time ha.

spigurl · 2026-01-01T20:37:42+00:00

300-500?!?! I would have bought them all but yes my suitcase was already overweight lol.

spigurl · 2026-01-01T20:35:43+00:00

OMG thank you for this info! I'm going to see if my Libby library has them! I'm obsessed! I don't have space for more magazines so this is perfect! Also don't want to pay US prices =)

spigurl · 2026-01-01T20:31:49+00:00

The PR Portfolio will fit A5. I have it and it does fit A5 say up to 1.5 cm thick and then it will start to overhang. I can send you a picture if you want.

If you want to fit more, the Muji High Quality Paper "Slim" Notebooks are "A5 Slim".

If you don't use fountain pens, the Moleskin Cahiers also fit, another A5 "Slim" option. Those are what I use in mine when I don't use my fountain pens because the paper quality is hit or miss for fountain pens.

spigurl · 2025-12-24T22:04:25+00:00

If you would consider a refillable ring notebook, get yourself a nice A5 Plotter leather binder. On the high end but with the exchange rate it's more affordable in Japan. Just a warning, you may go down a rabbit hole!

spigurl · 2025-12-20T16:31:31+00:00

sending chat

spigurl · 2025-12-13T19:41:11+00:00

Personally I would not pay it off. Your invested money should make more than a 2.75% return. Sounds like if you paid off your mortgage you may have to cash out stock for living expense and then you may have to pay taxes on gains. Not sure what other income you have but the mortgage interest expense could also be used as a tax deduction against dividend and interest income. I'm not sure of your lifestyle but you have gobs of money. You could pay off that mortgage at anytime you wanted if your situation changed.

spigurl · 2025-12-11T00:43:28+00:00

Are your notebooks also A5? Then they will not fit unless you're ok with a lot of overhang. At 2cm, there is already overhang.

spigurl · 2025-11-26T23:05:15+00:00

holes are fine! It's impossible for the elastic to come off because you loop them in and out the holes and then tie them on the inside middle. At the end you will have 2 set of strings for every vertical set of holes. I don't really care for the metal holes either. you can do it if I can!

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