Editing The Pen Addict 284/transcript (section)

== Loic Term Notebook ==


'''Ana Reinert:''' So I feel like I nailed that one. For the notebook, I thought a Loic term would be good. It's lined, it's good paper, and it's available in a ton of sizes with a ton of different colors for the cover. So you could get soft cover, hard cover, A6, B6, whatever size you want.

'''Ana Reinert:''' The ink, I went with the Kyo Iro in cherry blossom.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. Which I thought was a sort of a more muted pink, which I thought would be a good match. And for the case,

'''Ana Reinert:''' fifties and hippie, I couldn't make a match in my head.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I, like I say, we did a good job answering this. I think we did because it was really hard. Like we didn't, I don't know that all of us put that fit every spot on the, on the question list, but I think in totality, we got something here. So like, Myke, what did you do? You, you, you, you pretty much, bailed on us. You said you left, I'm going to leave this to the experts, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I, this one was too, it was too difficult. I couldn't conceptualize a good answer for most of these. So I just went with a pink ink and I'll just recommend Califolia and Dranopal because it's wild. Like it is a very interesting pink that I love very much. And that's my only, my only recommendation for this list because I got really scared by it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was very intimidated by the question too. And then when the answer hit my head, I was like, ah, I got it. At least for the pen, the pen and the pen wrap. I'm good on the paper. I skipped, but I think Lloyd's term is probably the right answer. The ink, Anna and Myke's are very, very good choices. And you know, I'm a fan of pink inks, but for the pen, I, the Estherbrook J, the foliage green colors of the Estherbrook, I thought was a really pretty green. It's a vintage style pen and you can get them in a stub nib, you know, like a broad stub nib. I actually found like a perfectly restored one that I'll link into the show notes, but it's a good picture. You can see what you get. Estherbrooks are reasonably priced. It's really pretty color. It's got that vintage look for the pen wrap. You can go with something from my friend, Claire written in rice. She has a shop where she hand makes pen wraps. There's definitely some hippie feeling designs in there. And if you're not going hippie, you can go with derpy Koi, or you can go with a lumber, sexual Fox, or, you know, there's lots of very, very cool designs that Claire does. I have several of her wraps. They're awesome. And, uh, there's some hippie designs up on there right now.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So I think between the three of us, I think we covered it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think we nailed it. You know, that was hard to get all of them yourself, but I think between the three of us, between the deck of graph and the Estherbrook, I think those are perfect choices. The Lord,

'''Myke Hurley:''' let's just be real about this guys. It was between the two of you. Honestly, let's, let's, you know, come on, let's just, you know,

'''Ana Reinert:''' I think the Califolio and Chernobyl was a good call.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, always. Plus that'll look good in both of those green pens, just like the Kiroiro. Um, so yeah. All right, Evgeny, uh, you'll have to report back and see, uh, if we did any good for you, you know, if any of these stick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're in the chat room right now and saying that we did awesome. And good thing that, uh, he budgeted $400 for her because he's going to need it. He's covered.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's covered now. That's the one. We did it. I meant to say that in the beginning. That's one thing about a lot of these questions. Some have budgets, some don't. So we had to do a little bit of guesswork, uh, along the way. All right. This next one is a little bit of a side diversion, not necessarily a gift guide response, but a gifting question. This is from Sarah BG3L online. It says, how do you low key ask someone that you went out on a limb and bought a stationary gift for in the past, if they actually use it and our future stationary gifts green lit. So like, how do you like sneak in there and determine, you know, okay, I bought them the stationary gift in the past. Did they use it? You know, are they, am I, you know, free to buy them stationary gifts in the future? And I just said, you kind of got to lead them by having all your stationary stuff out when you're around them, like have your pen or your paper, your fountain pens, uh, outplayed around. You're like, you know, get them to try out, Hey, do you want to try out this pen of mine? Oh, by the way, did you ever use that one? I got you the other time. And I mean, you might put them on the spot a little bit, but that's kind of a,

'''Myke Hurley:''' that's low key, man. That's like high key right there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like you are effectively just putting a spotlight in their face. You know? Yeah. Well, Anna might be able to handle it better. Well, how did you answer this, Anna?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Well, and I think Bijou 3L, because she's also a knitter, will appreciate my response, which is like when you knit somebody something, you know, if you knit them a hat, um, you're going to have, you know, if you give it to them, it's, if they don't ever wear it, you never see them wear that, or they never tell you, Hey, that hat, I love it. I wear it all the time. It's the same thing with a, a pen or a notebook. If they never tell you they use it, or they never say, Hey, I love that pen you gave me. You're either going to have to ask them, or you're going to have to assume that if they never tell you, they never wear it. You know? Yeah. Um, I, my husband suggested, Hey, I was thinking about buying my brother, my friend, the same pen or the same notebook. So I was going to ask you, Hey, do you have any feedback or recommendation? Should I get them the same color, the line or the graph and use sort of the side, side approach as a way of, you know, sort of asking if they liked it. So that's a possibility.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you have any ideas, Myke? Yes. I say buy them a refill and you give them the refill and you're like, I'm not sure if you knew where to get these from. So I'll get you one. Here you go. And if they go, Oh, awesome. I needed that. Then you know that they use it. If they go like, what are you talking about? Then they have no idea what you're talking about. That's how you do it. That's low key. Cause you're not, you're not asking them, right? It is low. It's way more low key than like, Oh, Hey, you, do you use that thing? I bought you. I'm on the download me. I got, I got it all set.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So based on Anna's answer, I would like to tell Evelyn in the chat room and Sarah, who writes for the pen addict that I love my hats, that they knitted them and that they knitted for me. And I wear them all the time. So see, I'm taking your advice there. And I'm telling them directly that I love the knitted gifts that I received and I will continue to wear them. So thank you so much.

'''Ana Reinert:''' That's how you get more knit where you have to tell them or you'll never get

'''Brad Dowdy:''' more. Never get more. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Let's, uh, we're going to go do a good job of spending people's money today, Myke. So let's, uh, let's double down and talk about our good friends at Pen Chalet.