Well, I have gotten in way over my head with the Pen collecting......Thanks to Robb.
I am enjoying all he is teaching me about flex and softness of gold nibs.
I have quite a few pens to choose from now....one for my every mood.
I have fun changing inks and mixing my own colors.
My latest acquisition is a Sailor Pro Gear with a 21K nib. Smoothe as buttah!!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
It's Raining Pens Hallelujah....!!
I've gone round the bend this time with fountain pens. No I didn't get a Montblanc and that will most likely take me years (if ever) for that but I did get a Lamy and it is German and Grrr-reat! Then today, I received a cheap $10.00 Chinese Jinhao pen that is one that the dealer said was a smoothe writer or he would give me my money back. Well, how could I resist? He was correct. It is heavy and really weighs in my hand and it is smoothe as butter......AND a definate keeper even tho the Chinese and I don't agree on Tibet!!
Oh My!! It looks like a Montblanc except no snowflakes on the ends. So who really needs snowflakes on their dang fountain pens? Well obviously for the prices they are selling for, some folks just gotta have 'em. (???)
I have a decent broad point Parker on the way and of course my Pelican Souv.600 with double B nib is due to arrive from Singapore. I am up to my hip bones in pens now. All with wondrous jewel tones of ink. I bought good ink for them on Saturday.
I have been writing all weekend. I wrote 4 long letters and was so proud of my pretty letters and envies. Then I just grabbed my journal and wrote all the crazy stuff that was going through my head just to be able to give them all a good workout and loosening up. It was so fun. I wrote the abc's over and over and over again. Crazy but the pens are writing smoother than ever......
I began my drawing class today. I am not sure what the first class is really about so I will wait til someone posts their lesson and see if that makes sense to me. I think it is probably a very easy exercise and I am just trying to complicate the matter.
DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM HAUTE DOLL.....EVER!!! THAT IS MY ADVICE THAT I AM PUTTING OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE. I HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THEM BADLY AND AFTER WAITING FOR TWO DANG MONTHS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WORD FROM THEM, I FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THE THINGS I ORDERED THEY SOLD TO SOMEONE ELSE. I CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY NEVER CHARGED MY CARD. IT IS JUST A CASE OF FAVORITISM AMONGST THEMSELVES I BELIEVE. WELL... EVEN THO I AM A CHRISTIAN, I DO BELIEVE IN KARMA. WHAT GOES AROUND WILL COME BACK AROUND AND BITE THEM IN THEIR GREEDY LITTLE BUTTS! BITE HARD KARMA MY FRIEND, BITE REALLY HARD!!!
I had Luther call and get on them this morning and tell them that he is reporting them to the Better Business Bureau and they didn't seem to care a bit...NOR did they apologize for their crazy office system. Never again. Not ever!!! Poor attitudes. My friend ordered over $1000.00 in clothing and they did the very same thing to her. We were both on line when the clothing/shoes/wigs became available. There is no way they sold out in the first five minutes. No way! So we are grumbling and spitting fire today. :o)
Last night, there wasn't anything on t.v. so about 10 o'clock we hit the hot tub. We had such a light show out there. Lightening bugs galore! They were out in force like I have never seen them before and I think after they mated they were going around hoping for seconds......Hmmmmm, little horn-dogs they are!:o)
It was so lovely and all I could think of as I sat there watching them and the shooting stars above us was that my God is an AWESOME God. I love you Lord, with all of my being. Thank you for the flowers, birds, trees, stars, lightening storms and every beautiful thing you created. You give me chill bumps daily.
Well, that is my side of the story and I am stickin' with it!!
Oh My!! It looks like a Montblanc except no snowflakes on the ends. So who really needs snowflakes on their dang fountain pens? Well obviously for the prices they are selling for, some folks just gotta have 'em. (???)
I have a decent broad point Parker on the way and of course my Pelican Souv.600 with double B nib is due to arrive from Singapore. I am up to my hip bones in pens now. All with wondrous jewel tones of ink. I bought good ink for them on Saturday.
I have been writing all weekend. I wrote 4 long letters and was so proud of my pretty letters and envies. Then I just grabbed my journal and wrote all the crazy stuff that was going through my head just to be able to give them all a good workout and loosening up. It was so fun. I wrote the abc's over and over and over again. Crazy but the pens are writing smoother than ever......
I began my drawing class today. I am not sure what the first class is really about so I will wait til someone posts their lesson and see if that makes sense to me. I think it is probably a very easy exercise and I am just trying to complicate the matter.
DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM HAUTE DOLL.....EVER!!! THAT IS MY ADVICE THAT I AM PUTTING OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE. I HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THEM BADLY AND AFTER WAITING FOR TWO DANG MONTHS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WORD FROM THEM, I FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THE THINGS I ORDERED THEY SOLD TO SOMEONE ELSE. I CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY NEVER CHARGED MY CARD. IT IS JUST A CASE OF FAVORITISM AMONGST THEMSELVES I BELIEVE. WELL... EVEN THO I AM A CHRISTIAN, I DO BELIEVE IN KARMA. WHAT GOES AROUND WILL COME BACK AROUND AND BITE THEM IN THEIR GREEDY LITTLE BUTTS! BITE HARD KARMA MY FRIEND, BITE REALLY HARD!!!
I had Luther call and get on them this morning and tell them that he is reporting them to the Better Business Bureau and they didn't seem to care a bit...NOR did they apologize for their crazy office system. Never again. Not ever!!! Poor attitudes. My friend ordered over $1000.00 in clothing and they did the very same thing to her. We were both on line when the clothing/shoes/wigs became available. There is no way they sold out in the first five minutes. No way! So we are grumbling and spitting fire today. :o)
Last night, there wasn't anything on t.v. so about 10 o'clock we hit the hot tub. We had such a light show out there. Lightening bugs galore! They were out in force like I have never seen them before and I think after they mated they were going around hoping for seconds......Hmmmmm, little horn-dogs they are!:o)
It was so lovely and all I could think of as I sat there watching them and the shooting stars above us was that my God is an AWESOME God. I love you Lord, with all of my being. Thank you for the flowers, birds, trees, stars, lightening storms and every beautiful thing you created. You give me chill bumps daily.
Well, that is my side of the story and I am stickin' with it!!
Monday, July 14, 2008
I am on the hunt again........
Well, one thing always leads to another for me. As I was waiting on an auction for a doll that looks like the Olsen twins when they were babes, I began to research fountain pens and decided I wanted a Montblanc pen. Whoosh! They are some spendy... they are!!
After studying all day long viewing so many diff. sites, I finally decided on a really nice Pelikan Souv. 600 pen (German) because the cheapy one I have, ($25) writes like a dream so I figured if I get way up near the top of the line, I would have myself one smoothe write. Well, a guy in Singapore (with excellent references) sold me one and he was most excellent with e-mails back and forth and he told me this morning that he already mailed my pen this morning. How cool is that? Great service....especially since I ordered doll clothing from Haute Doll and it is almost a month and they still aren't here and they are really close to me in MN. Drat!
Anyway, I would not hesitate to order from him again. He sells pens that go up to many thousands of dollars so my Pen is like ordering a Bic from him!! sigh!! He treated me as good as if I had bought a highly sought after vintage pen.
My goal IS still a real MontBlanc even if it has to be a used one. I just gotta.....!!!
After studying all day long viewing so many diff. sites, I finally decided on a really nice Pelikan Souv. 600 pen (German) because the cheapy one I have, ($25) writes like a dream so I figured if I get way up near the top of the line, I would have myself one smoothe write. Well, a guy in Singapore (with excellent references) sold me one and he was most excellent with e-mails back and forth and he told me this morning that he already mailed my pen this morning. How cool is that? Great service....especially since I ordered doll clothing from Haute Doll and it is almost a month and they still aren't here and they are really close to me in MN. Drat!
Anyway, I would not hesitate to order from him again. He sells pens that go up to many thousands of dollars so my Pen is like ordering a Bic from him!! sigh!! He treated me as good as if I had bought a highly sought after vintage pen.
My goal IS still a real MontBlanc even if it has to be a used one. I just gotta.....!!!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
We Survived!!! (P.T.L.!!)
It was totally awesome. Saw many baby ducklings, and some butterflies that I have never seen before....Indigo blue and orange. Wowzer!
We ran into the river bank a couple of times.....barely missed two huge boulders in the river, and were a couple of clowns for a family having a picnic lunch.....sigh!
It was so quiet and serene and peaceful. (Awesome God we worship!!!!)
We were on the 5 mile ride at high noon, it was far enough! I was so slathered in Sunscreen that I looked ready to pop into the oven to roast. I didn't get sunburned, amen! Three of my meds. warn me about not getting into the sun......
I always tease Luther that there are no fish in the 10,000 Minnesota Lakes because it is all just 'melted snow'. No self respecting fish would ever live in that stuff... Well guess what! I was the only one that saw this huge fish jump straight out of the water. It was about 18 inches long....family feedin' size and it had a pink belly. That is all I saw.....and I DID see it....That is my story and I'm stickin' to it!!!
We ran into the river bank a couple of times.....barely missed two huge boulders in the river, and were a couple of clowns for a family having a picnic lunch.....sigh!
It was so quiet and serene and peaceful. (Awesome God we worship!!!!)
We were on the 5 mile ride at high noon, it was far enough! I was so slathered in Sunscreen that I looked ready to pop into the oven to roast. I didn't get sunburned, amen! Three of my meds. warn me about not getting into the sun......
I always tease Luther that there are no fish in the 10,000 Minnesota Lakes because it is all just 'melted snow'. No self respecting fish would ever live in that stuff... Well guess what! I was the only one that saw this huge fish jump straight out of the water. It was about 18 inches long....family feedin' size and it had a pink belly. That is all I saw.....and I DID see it....That is my story and I'm stickin' to it!!!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Gonna do it!!
Well, as time is running out for me I want to live my life with even more Gusto.
Tomorrow we are going to Welch and going canoeing. Yep! Me!! I am gonna do it this time. I am all prepared with enough 'skeeter stuff' to kill 'em or make them very very ill atleast! I have my sun hat and my beach shoes in case I fall in and I am planning to take my cheap camera (ahem! in case I do fall in...I am not taking my new camera!) I am told that we will see animals and deer drinking and that sounds good but I am terrified of the tippy boats so I am planting my big butt and will only take pictures if they are on my side of the boat cuz I ain't movin'. So what is the big deal if I fall into 12 inches of water or 12 feet you ask? Well this is Minnesota and all that water is is melted snow and it is colder than a witches tit! I don't want to fall in. As much as I love water, this stuff is not for falling into, trust me!
Next up, we plan to climb the bluff but I am not in shape for that yet. I will get there tho'.
Tomorrow we are going to Welch and going canoeing. Yep! Me!! I am gonna do it this time. I am all prepared with enough 'skeeter stuff' to kill 'em or make them very very ill atleast! I have my sun hat and my beach shoes in case I fall in and I am planning to take my cheap camera (ahem! in case I do fall in...I am not taking my new camera!) I am told that we will see animals and deer drinking and that sounds good but I am terrified of the tippy boats so I am planting my big butt and will only take pictures if they are on my side of the boat cuz I ain't movin'. So what is the big deal if I fall into 12 inches of water or 12 feet you ask? Well this is Minnesota and all that water is is melted snow and it is colder than a witches tit! I don't want to fall in. As much as I love water, this stuff is not for falling into, trust me!
Next up, we plan to climb the bluff but I am not in shape for that yet. I will get there tho'.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Barn Swallows outside the Casino!!!
Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I saw SWARMS of Barn Swallows building mud nests outside the Casino. ALL AROUND THE CASINO!!! I could not believe their tenacity. People sure didn't bother them a bit. Some were perching above in their mud nests and others were in the process of building a nest one little mouthful of mud at a time. My gracious!! I stood there in sheer rapture. I just couldn't get over it. Normally to see them one must go in a barn....preferably a hog barn. Today, I got to watch them work in the daylight and it was nothing short of fascinating.
I will begin an altered book on birds and trees soon. I am deeply fascinated by both. I have begun to notice all the different trees in our area...and their way of propagating. The Cottonwood across the street is so full of fluffy stuff. Every time the wind blows, puffs of white stuff flies out of the tree looking for all the world like snow! My bedroom window is different every day. The scene changes all the time and I have been glued to that window since we moved in 4 years ago. One day the sky is pink, the next day it is yellow-green and the next day it is all blue skies and puffy white clouds. Everyday different birds perch in them. Have not seen Hawks before or since the one day two of them arrived and sat still for hours!!! That was the day Mom Luhman was buried. I think it was her way of saying that she was with Dad Luhman again and they were free to fly..........
I will begin an altered book on birds and trees soon. I am deeply fascinated by both. I have begun to notice all the different trees in our area...and their way of propagating. The Cottonwood across the street is so full of fluffy stuff. Every time the wind blows, puffs of white stuff flies out of the tree looking for all the world like snow! My bedroom window is different every day. The scene changes all the time and I have been glued to that window since we moved in 4 years ago. One day the sky is pink, the next day it is yellow-green and the next day it is all blue skies and puffy white clouds. Everyday different birds perch in them. Have not seen Hawks before or since the one day two of them arrived and sat still for hours!!! That was the day Mom Luhman was buried. I think it was her way of saying that she was with Dad Luhman again and they were free to fly..........
Introducing Goober and Gomer
Look at my babies!!! Aren't they gorgeous? One is more rambunctious than the other and bites a little bit harder....that would be Gomer my first ferret. Goober is a little lamb in comparison. I love them both. I was born to be a ferret mommy. Their personality and my personality really jive! They are little rascals. I keep waiting for them to get big enough to play in the play-pen without 'slithering' thru the bars!
