So great to see you talking about stationery again, Alicia! I’m loving my eternal leather cover, I have it in natural, and the patina has developed beautifully with such a nice shine.
I came for the planners/journals/pens about 5 yrs ago and they will always be my favorite topic for your videos. But I get that you have many interests. Tks for the update!
I never get tired of admiring your cozy office. I just received the new Galen Leather A5 expansi-folio in brown, and am delighted to have a folio now that doesn’t bulge! I sold my old undyed one at a discount price (it sold in 12 hours) so someone else can enjoy it!
I just bought a Sheaffer Oversized Balance with a double broad nib. It's my grail pen, and I'm loving it so much. I've been writing with it every day since I got it, which is something I've only done before with my Kaweco brass Sport and a couple of TWSBI Ecos -- but with the Ecos, it's for the inks I keep in them (Poussiere de Lune and PCB) whereas with the Sport and the Balance, it's for the pens themselves. I have my Balance inked with Parker Quink Black, too -- it's my favorite ink for vintage pens. Some others are nice, but that's what I always go back to. And I'm so glad you liked "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" -- that was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I've liked it every time I've read it as an adult, too. I actually haven't reread it for a few years, and your video was a good reminder to read it again.
O God - I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a couple of years ago, and within a month or so I did read it again. What beautiful, beautiful book! I’m so glad you like it too.
Appreciate the update & your perspective as always. Have kind of been beating myself up for not journaling or free writing as I had been. I've added this book to the list to read, sounds great TFS.
Yay a new upload! I love your videos, they are so relaxing! Watching your book videos has motivated me to read more books this year :) thank you for sharing ❤
When Books Went to War opens with author Betty Smith responding to a soldier who wrote her after he read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I was so touched by their letters that I immediately read her book, too. When Books Went to War is a fascinating story of which books were published in editions convenient for soldiers to carry with them while sometimes literally in the trenches. I highly recommend it!
Also from When Books Went to War, I learned of a delightful series of five books by Mary Lasswell. The first one is Suds in Your Eye. Funny, endearing, and heartwarming!
I have read it too, and in love with the book as well. I feel the same, this will be a repeat in my yearly lineup. Such a wonderful story that brings me right in the moment and that is hard to do in more books I have read.
Great to catch up with you after a while (and glad to know I'm no the only one to "fall off the wagon" in regard to journaling). I have Travelers' Passport-size notebook, but couldn't deal with the format of the larger version - I'm too used to the A5 format, and went for a notebook in the Travelers design-vein and set it up in similar style to my Passport book, and enjoy it quite a bit.
Nice to see you again! Your videos always brighten my days. I think I have the same Schaeffer pen. It was my mother‘s secretarial pen from way back when. I had the 0:01 bladder replaced perhaps a decade ago, but haven’t really inked it since. It has a fine or extra fine nib which has not been what I usually used, but I’ve been trending that way lately. Thanks for the great video! Going hot tent camping soon?
Thanks for the update Alicia! The new Hobo weeks has the new Sanzen tomoe river paper. I´m curious if you like it. I fell in love with traveler´s notebooks last year and will try their weekly + memo plannner next year abandoning the weeks.
Loved the episode. You sold me on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so that is now added to my reading list! You mentioned The Time Machine, so I wonder if you have read C.S. Lewis's space trilogy? Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. Those are good reads, too.
Hope you’re having a splendid autumn season, Alicia! - Starting in 2025, I’m gonna to journal again BUT… for five years… thanks to my purchase of the Leuchtturm Some Lines A Day notebook! From my late teens, I used to journal almost every day, but then it later became tedious and boring, so I stopped in late 2021. But now that I have that notebook ready to use, I’m only going to highlight some of the moments I captured whether it be from holidays/vacations, foods that I tried or big events that occurred. - I also have 10 notebooks with the original Tomoe River paper which I am desperate to use up-actually, only one that’s used for ink swatches. I heard some nice things about the ink holding up well with this thin paper. The last notebook I purchased was £55 ($72) so that definitely put me off buying them for a long time, at least for the time being. - I am enjoying my pens more and I already began my final year in university to study my final piece of work before graduating next year. - Happy writing and we shall hope that 2025 will be something even more EPIC!
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"... I believe I first read it while in high school way back when and I mean way back. Definitely a book to read more than once. I'm big on Hemingway and have reread his books often. My favorite books to reread though are the "Dragons Of Pern" series of books by the author Anne McCaffrey which still excite me on every read. I am searching for a box set of her work because my copies are falling apart lol.
I cannot recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn highly enough. I think it is a Great American Novel. I read it when I was 14 or so and re-read it every couple of years. It has shaped my inner life in more ways than I can count. Ugh! So good.
Your penmanship is beautiful! Can you recommend a certain workbook for improving an older style penmanship like Copperplate or something similar? I so enjoy your videos, thank you!
I would feel the same way about opening up to a cold image even if it was your fav mountain. I was hoping you’d mention it because the idea was just perfect and silly but I’m glad to know you’ve thought about it. It would be sad if you didn’t know. Haha. This is super silly but still…
@@adventuredenali For sure yes. Currently on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. It's a retelling, imagining, of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's perspective. (James of the title)
@@SamanthaOrtiz-g1c Peyton Street Pens has been a great resource for me in regards to vintage pens, but be warned: I’ve worn pens around my neck before and the body has twisted off its cap just from the swinging motion of my moving about. I have dropped and almost lost a pen that way! I don’t recommend cranking down on the cap either to prevent this, as the cap can then get stress fractures if twisted too tightly. They’re lovely pens though and you’ll often see them listed as “vest” pens.
The planner deco thing... The Denali brand is 100pc esthetic, expressive, creative. Just looking at the room behind you... and your 'functional' planner is more esthetic than my best & neatest effort! Starting with handwriting.... Less popular opinion is that most UA-cam planner channels actually substitute deco for any meaningful content... no offense to them but THIS channel is on a whole different plane.
Thank you so much. You reminded me to put in my order for my 2025 Planners (I use a Leuchturm1917 Weekly Planner for work and a Roterfaden Weekly Planner for roller derby). Oh, I ordered another fountain pen too. I'm at 34 books for the year. Not sure what my favorite book so far was. But, for you, of the books I've read, I'm going to suggest Malka Older's _The Mimicking of Known Successes_ and _The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles_. They're some very imaginative future, mystery novellas.
I had to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for school and my grandmother took it away and returned it to the library on me before I could finish it. In her opinion the book promulgated unfavorable ethnic stereotypes.
Understood what do you really like is to own and buy or have tons of whatever (Its pointless to have 12 diaries … or not ( unless paid for using or annuncing them … or not
Hi! What’s the brand of the inkwell? Thanks!
That’s the Pineider Traveling Inkwell.
@@adventuredenali Thanks!!! 💚
I've missed your journaling content! Thank you for sharing 😊
@@DinaAmaral you’re welcome!
So lovely to see you back on here and sharing journaling content no less! I love it, thank you!
Thank you! :D
So great to see you talking about stationery again, Alicia! I’m loving my eternal leather cover, I have it in natural, and the patina has developed beautifully with such a nice shine.
Thank you so much! I bet the patina on your natural cover is looking so gorgeous. They're such great covers.
I came for the planners/journals/pens about 5 yrs ago and they will always be my favorite topic for your videos. But I get that you have many interests. Tks for the update!
I never get tired of admiring your cozy office.
I just received the new Galen Leather A5 expansi-folio in brown, and am delighted to have a folio now that doesn’t bulge! I sold my old undyed one at a discount price (it sold in 12 hours) so someone else can enjoy it!
I just bought a Sheaffer Oversized Balance with a double broad nib. It's my grail pen, and I'm loving it so much. I've been writing with it every day since I got it, which is something I've only done before with my Kaweco brass Sport and a couple of TWSBI Ecos -- but with the Ecos, it's for the inks I keep in them (Poussiere de Lune and PCB) whereas with the Sport and the Balance, it's for the pens themselves. I have my Balance inked with Parker Quink Black, too -- it's my favorite ink for vintage pens. Some others are nice, but that's what I always go back to.
And I'm so glad you liked "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" -- that was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I've liked it every time I've read it as an adult, too. I actually haven't reread it for a few years, and your video was a good reminder to read it again.
O God - I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a couple of years ago, and within a month or so I did read it again. What beautiful, beautiful book! I’m so glad you like it too.
@@gregorsamsa4580 oooh that’s so amazing!!! 😍
I just took it off the shelf to read yesterday! Haha
Now I have it to read too, I'm going with all of your recommendations on this one, I hope I love it!
Update....I absolutely adore it already and only a tiny bit read so far! Thank you for this gem!
@@MegaTripsy Hurray!!! May you continue to adore it!
Glad you are back! Oddly seeing the love you have for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn was so touching
It shaped me as a person and I’m a 50’s model
Thank you! Gosh, that book is so special.
Appreciate the update & your perspective as always. Have kind of been beating myself up for not journaling or free writing as I had been. I've added this book to the list to read, sounds great TFS.
A tree grows in Brooklyn has been on my reading list for years. Thank you for mentioning it, I ordered a used copy from Amazon.❤
@@fionasimagination wahoo! I hope you enjoy it!
Yay a new upload! I love your videos, they are so relaxing! Watching your book videos has motivated me to read more books this year :) thank you for sharing ❤
When Books Went to War opens with author Betty Smith responding to a soldier who wrote her after he read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I was so touched by their letters that I immediately read her book, too. When Books Went to War is a fascinating story of which books were published in editions convenient for soldiers to carry with them while sometimes literally in the trenches. I highly recommend it!
I was just reading the history of dime novels, and apparently, the millions of books sent to the front are in this form.
Oh thank you for this recommendation! I will look into it.
Also from When Books Went to War, I learned of a delightful series of five books by Mary Lasswell. The first one is Suds in Your Eye. Funny, endearing, and heartwarming!
I have read it too, and in love with the book as well. I feel the same, this will be a repeat in my yearly lineup. Such a wonderful story that brings me right in the moment and that is hard to do in more books I have read.
I've missed your journaling talks. This is great. But I like all your vids. lol
@@Tracywhited2 aww thank you! 🥰
Great to catch up with you after a while (and glad to know I'm no the only one to "fall off the wagon" in regard to journaling). I have Travelers' Passport-size notebook, but couldn't deal with the format of the larger version - I'm too used to the A5 format, and went for a notebook in the Travelers design-vein and set it up in similar style to my Passport book, and enjoy it quite a bit.
So glad to see another pen and journal video from you. Thank you
@@penthevision4706 thank you and you’re welcome!
Nice to see you again! Your videos always brighten my days. I think I have the same Schaeffer pen. It was my mother‘s secretarial pen from way back when. I had the 0:01 bladder replaced perhaps a decade ago, but haven’t really inked it since. It has a fine or extra fine nib which has not been what I usually used, but I’ve been trending that way lately. Thanks for the great video! Going hot tent camping soon?
I love the Pistachio green color you chose! I bought a Hobonichi weeks for the first time so I'm excited to use it next year 😊
Oh exciting! I hope you enjoy it! Which cover did you choose on your weeks?
@@adventuredenali I bought the Yumi Kitagishi: Beautiful Wallpaper, the exact opposite of yours 😂
So great to meet another fountain pen enthusiast here in Tucson.
Thanks for the update Alicia! The new Hobo weeks has the new Sanzen tomoe river paper. I´m curious if you like it. I fell in love with traveler´s notebooks last year and will try their weekly + memo plannner next year abandoning the weeks.
Yay paper! New Glasses? They look great! 👍🏽
@@DTZinatbakhsh I think I got these glasses a year ago? I can’t remember. Thank you!
I enjoy watching your journey. I've re-read a few of Jane Austen's books. But this is the first time I've heard of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏾
@@nohandle-01 thank you and you’re welcome!
Loved the episode. You sold me on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so that is now added to my reading list! You mentioned The Time Machine, so I wonder if you have read C.S. Lewis's space trilogy? Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. Those are good reads, too.
Hope you’re having a splendid autumn season, Alicia!
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Starting in 2025, I’m gonna to journal again BUT… for five years… thanks to my purchase of the Leuchtturm Some Lines A Day notebook! From my late teens, I used to journal almost every day, but then it later became tedious and boring, so I stopped in late 2021. But now that I have that notebook ready to use, I’m only going to highlight some of the moments I captured whether it be from holidays/vacations, foods that I tried or big events that occurred.
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I also have 10 notebooks with the original Tomoe River paper which I am desperate to use up-actually, only one that’s used for ink swatches. I heard some nice things about the ink holding up well with this thin paper. The last notebook I purchased was £55 ($72) so that definitely put me off buying them for a long time, at least for the time being.
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I am enjoying my pens more and I already began my final year in university to study my final piece of work before graduating next year.
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Happy writing and we shall hope that 2025 will be something even more EPIC!
„A Tree grows in Brooklyn“ one of my favorite Books forever.
@@Petra_lens it’s such a treasure!
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"... I believe I first read it while in high school way back when and I mean way back. Definitely a book to read more than once. I'm big on Hemingway and have reread his books often. My favorite books to reread though are the "Dragons Of Pern" series of books by the author Anne McCaffrey which still excite me on every read. I am searching for a box set of her work because my copies are falling apart lol.
I cannot recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn highly enough. I think it is a Great American Novel. I read it when I was 14 or so and re-read it every couple of years. It has shaped my inner life in more ways than I can count. Ugh! So good.
@@kellylsmith5278 aaah that’s so great!!! It is just that amazing.
48 books 🎉 kudos! Inspiring I’m 9 books behind for the year but we have plenty of days left in the year
@@cdgarcia reading is so valuable, no matter how much! Enjoy your reading! I’d be curious to know if you have any favorites thus far.
@@adventuredenali nothing noteworthy except it’s fun reading multiple books at once. My head ends up merging the stories together 😁
Have missed your videos, hello hello hello! 🎉
Hellooo! 😃
Your penmanship is beautiful! Can you recommend a certain workbook for improving an older style penmanship like Copperplate or something similar? I so enjoy your videos, thank you!
I would feel the same way about opening up to a cold image even if it was your fav mountain. I was hoping you’d mention it because the idea was just perfect and silly but I’m glad to know you’ve thought about it. It would be sad if you didn’t know. Haha. This is super silly but still…
Have you done a cursive tutorial? That’d be amazing? Or at least can you share how you learned?
Have you read jade city by Fonda Lee ?! I really enjoyed the trilogy from the green bone saga
Indian Givers - Jack Weatherford
I think I read A Tree in Brooklyn long ago. Didn’t she read all the books in the library?
@@scottlaughlin2447 she certainly read a lot, not all, but she was checking them out alphabetically.
I miss seeing your beautiful handwriting
@@technoraptor7778 aww ☺️
You too.
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I ,love your videos so much
James, Percival Everett.
Book recommendation?
@@adventuredenali For sure yes. Currently on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. It's a retelling, imagining, of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's perspective. (James of the title)
@@Roberto__Skar oh!!! That’s so cool! Thank you!
Do you know where I can buy a slinger around the neck pen the vintage one?
@@SamanthaOrtiz-g1c Peyton Street Pens has been a great resource for me in regards to vintage pens, but be warned: I’ve worn pens around my neck before and the body has twisted off its cap just from the swinging motion of my moving about. I have dropped and almost lost a pen that way! I don’t recommend cranking down on the cap either to prevent this, as the cap can then get stress fractures if twisted too tightly. They’re lovely pens though and you’ll often see them listed as “vest” pens.
Where can I find that black leather notebook cover?
@@glenconverse1327 I posted a link in the description! It’s made by Eternal Leather Goods.
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@@Knubbers24_Ryan_Van_Riper 😃
The planner deco thing... The Denali brand is 100pc esthetic, expressive, creative. Just looking at the room behind you... and your 'functional' planner is more esthetic than my best & neatest effort! Starting with handwriting....
Less popular opinion is that most UA-cam planner channels actually substitute deco for any meaningful content... no offense to them but THIS channel is on a whole different plane.
Thank you so much. You reminded me to put in my order for my 2025 Planners (I use a Leuchturm1917 Weekly Planner for work and a Roterfaden Weekly Planner for roller derby). Oh, I ordered another fountain pen too. I'm at 34 books for the year. Not sure what my favorite book so far was. But, for you, of the books I've read, I'm going to suggest Malka Older's _The Mimicking of Known Successes_ and _The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles_. They're some very imaginative future, mystery novellas.
@@viewer8888 oh awesome! Roller derby sounds fun!! What fountain pen did you order? And thank you for the suggestions!
I had to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for school and my grandmother took it away and returned it to the library on me before I could finish it. In her opinion the book promulgated unfavorable ethnic stereotypes.
Understood what do you really like is to own and buy or have tons of whatever (Its pointless to have 12 diaries … or not ( unless paid for using or annuncing them … or not
Hello! I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. >.