Today is my day of chores. Saturdays are often that day for me. I sleep in then start to tackle the list. Today’s list included taking the dogs for a much needed grooming. Witht hat out of the way I’m in line for some household chores before I’m fully awake to tackle the various to do lists for Art Journaling ning, the Zine and the new projects I’ve lined up for myself.

I became distracted by the mail when the rest of my now week old Amazon order arrived. I received my Noodler’s Firefly yellow highlighter ink and the waterproof grease. I call this the rest of my “works.” In that these 2 items go hand-in-hand with the syringe I ordered from a Veterinary supply company so that I could easily measure precisely the amount of ink I’m placing into the barrel of my pens. This will allow me to mix perfect blue blacks and other colors. As of right now it’s letting me fill my Platinum Preppy highlighter with firefly yellow fountain pen ink so that I can keep all my to do lists accurate and highlighted. The preppy hold 3ml of ink. A regular cartridge holds 1ml. My 3oz of firefly ink is equal to 89 cartridges. That many cartridges would cost $67. One bottle of firefly yellow ran me $12.50. So you might balk at paying $13 for a bottle of fine ink, but then you look at the cost against the cartridges it’s a real value.*

Not to mention that filling the preppy with 3 ml is equal to 3 cartridges of ink, meaning I’ll have to fill it less often. My fountain pen looks like it’ll hold about the same in ink but I wanted to test it out so I only filled it halfway.

So I can’t wait to get sketching with my fountain pen and tackling that to do list with my highlighter filled with Noodler’s ink!

*I might also add that I'm not seeing any seepage with the ink and grease. So far so good, We'll see what happens when I toss it around my bag for a day or 2.