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The other day, I made a Cult Pens order, and bought my first bottle of Waterman ink, because obviously I need more bottles of ink, I say, staring hard at the ones I already own, and the ones that were my mum's.

Anyway, it is in Tender Purple (not Intense Purple, as I erroneously said on twitter; I think that's a Diamine ink colour). And, as I also said on twitter, the German for Aquarius literally translates to Waterman, so I was astrologically compelled to buy some of their ink at some point ;)

I also got three refills for my Pentel Energel pen, which I was given by someone I work with about a month or so ago. I've really been enjoying drawing with it, so I got a black refill (as it's black anyway), and also sky blue and turquoise refills, because my colour choices are extremely predictable.

So now I'm tossing up whether this is just me spending money, or whether it can come off the Xmas money I was given (maybe the ink yes, but the refills no). I feel like the Xmas money should go on stuff I wouldn't normally buy. Like the hand-dyed sewing threads I have just spent some cash on!

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When I haven't been watching Inscryption LPs/anything else that is a Let's Play of a game by Daniel Mullins, I have been watching a lady who is primarily a junk journaller. I found her through a sewing video she did, but I've been watching some of her other videos as well. I've discovered she has a two shops on Etsy - one of which she sells junk journalling supplies through, which includes lengths of yarn she chops up and bunches together.

Which is a thing I thought about doing almost two years ago, since I have some yarn I'd never knit or crochet with. But I never did, because I didn't think people would buy it. But they do! So mostly I'm mad at myself for never going through with that.

She also does a thing called Gelli Printing, which I have heard of, but I didn't know what it it was. It's basically monoprinting, but first you have to buy an expensive piece of synthetic gelatine*. (You can make your own, from actual gelatine, but obviously that isn't vegetarian/vegan friendly, and it only lasts around two weeks, and I know what my weasel brain is like). Websites say it's for printing without a press, which I am all for! However, I know the gel plate will give me textural issues, so I'm going to have a go at this and use a piece of glass as my plate instead.

It's interesting, because I've always wondered how people get these sorts of backgrounds (if you search for gelli printing on somewhere like pinterest, you'll see what I mean), but I am not interested enough in junk/art journalling to actually go and look it up, and I wouldn't have known what to search for until now.

So obviously, that is another thing my weasel brain has latched onto wanting to do - although I have wanted to do monoprinting for some time now, I just haven't got to it yet. Hopefully I will in the new year!

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In other news, I am playing FFXIII on my PS3 and I:

1) forgot how loud the fan on the console is, and

2) forgot how fast the horizontal camera moves. I honestly can't remember if it's like that on the Xbox version, but there's no way to change the speed it moves at, which is annoying, because it's legit making me feel slightly nauseous.

Anyway, I feel like I'm not very far in - I'm at the end section of the Vile Peaks - but the recap text informs me I'm in chapter four, so really IDK!

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Now to go and do something that is not internet related, I think!

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*The smallest plate, for example, that Jackson's Art sells is 6x6", and costs £22. I realise 6x6" is quite a big size, but I don't want to be spending that much on something I might not use.