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title = "state of the bujo"
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date = "2024-08-09"
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 *now playing -- [heart attack](https://youtu.be/BVVfMFS3mgc?si=PUE8v3gIy6VjpH-A) by chuu (loona)* 
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***this entry is image-heavy, apologies for those with screen readers! I've done my best to alt-text the images!***
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[retrospring is shutting down](https://blog.retrospring.net/retrospring-is-shutting-down-on-1st-march-2025) on 1 March 2025, sad times.  the good news is there's some replacements springing up here and there... \>w< I've already begun migrating to [spring](https://spring.love4eva.net/@mana) and changed my footer to reflect that. I'll still be on [retrospring](https://retrospring.net/@rainbowpink) until it's taken offline next year, but spring is where I'll be from now on.
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I kind of fell off the habit of bullet journaling recently; it's a little difficult to maintain bc I'm still deciding how I want to track my days, so I'm a little sporadic about maintaining it, but I'm trying to get back into it. What better time to pick it back up than [bujo day](https://www.instagram.com/p/CguRV4er75L/) (8/8)?
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lately, this is how my daily logs are looking, pretty minimal and a big change from how they began:<div align=center><div style="aside">
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*where we are now.*
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*how it started.*</div></div>
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as a disabled person, an entire page for each day feels a little wasteful, since I don't really do enough to take up a whole page (which isn't really true, but I'm not in the habit of filling it out every day and *that* ***does*** feel wasteful). I have a bad habit of getting very focused on whatever thing I am working on and forgetting to eat, and keeping a food diary helped me make sure I was eating enough every day, same with the water drop stencil; I was using it to track my water intake (each row is one water bottle's worth).
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Speaking of bujo: I've been buying some new inks, and even received one for my birthday~!
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*from left to right, back row to front row: "memory" branded Chinese ink in 'hyacinth orchid,' and 'jade dew,' PenBBS ink in 'Chongqing City Blue', "collection traced" inks in 'sakura dream' and 'peach fog,' Sailor ink studio in "130," and a bottled mixture of Chongqing City Blue and memory hyacinth orchid.*
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*writing sample of the first few inks I purchased,<br>top to bottom: memory hyacinth orchid & jade dew, PenBBS Chongqing City Blue.*
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*samples of the pink inks I got for my birthday, <br>top to bottom: collection traced sakura dreams & peach fog, sailor ink studio 130.*<br>
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*writing sample of the ink I mixed by hand, <br>a blend of PenBBS Chongqing City Blue and memory hyacinth orchid.*
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</div></div>
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I would like to get one more dark colored reddish ink for mixing some of the lighter pinks and deepening them without altering the color too much, I've been looking at a bottle of memory 'acacia' ink, since I really like the shading of these inks, and they're pretty cheap on aliexpress [(~$8 for 18ml)](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799893415643.html); which reminds me: I have a bottle of memory 'philodendron,' a lovely lake blue color headed my way, along with two more [platinum little meteors](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806129846262.html) (the other two sanrio special edition collabo's I want, a blue one for cinnamoroll, and a purple for hello kitty - these do not come with converters in case you were looking at them!) <div align=center>
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*my current pen collection, from top to bottom: Three Jinhao 82s, a M nib in rose pink, and two F nibs in transparent peacock blue and transparent rose red, and a Platinum Little Meteor Sanrio special edition in My Melody pink.*</div></div>
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yes, I realize this is probably more pens than any one person needs, but I am still very much learning & playing around with inks and the pens I've ordered are all gorgeous, so I feel okay splurging a little and spoiling myself. 
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speaking of which, people have asked to see my stationery stash, so here's a photo of my stationery drawer currently (there's more than this, but it's put away in my crafting room until I use these up \>w<):<div align=center><div style="aside">
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*my stationery drawer in my desk*<br></div></div>
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(as you can see it's mostly stickers, followed by washi, with a spot for my bujo and regular journal (under the sumikko gurashi sticker booklets)<div align=center><div style="aside">
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*a closer look: rolls of stickers, a box of washi, deco tapes, my pens, and more!*</div></div>
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pretty much everything here I've gathered from aliexpress, with the exception of the glue stick, which my husband grabbed from a local crafting store. (thanks husband!)  |