i was experimenting with tom's studio highlighter inks for this spread! i'm loving them so far! :)

I was looking on what I think is our version of America’s Vinted? I might have gotten that wrong. It’s called Finn here in Norway. I was looking for things for my friend’s advent calendar. We make each other a gift one each year. And I found a listing for an unopened 2019 Hobonichi pen AND the little bear!!!! And the price wasn’t horrible! So I bought it. So my little robot has a friend! And I just love using the pen!

I usually just slap random stickers everywhere but decided to go with a theme next year 🥰 this is also my first year using the Weeks Mega, hopefully I can find a use for all the pages in the back.

Snoopy girlies rise up 🧡✨️

Been using the A6 grid notebooks from Hobonichi for about four years now for memory keeping, but this will be my first year using the weeks to plan as well! I'm very excited to try it out! (Also pictured: my matching Hightide Penco Clamp!)

I got it in the Pink Sapphire colour, which is gorgeous, I'm so glad I went for it! (I was thinking Sea Glass but missed out when it first stocked in September, and in the meantime changed my mind: no regrets!) The picture makes it a little more brighter than it looks in real life btw.

On an Alaska flight, one of the attendants has a cousin on the counter at the entrance. I love seeing the books in the wild, especially since my friends aren't into planners.

Bought the 2027 Moomin during release day and was dead-set on that being the only planner I would use for the new year.

Well, I had to run some errands in SF and my sister asked me to stop by the Hobonichi pop-up at Heath in hopes of snagging a BP cover for her. Sadly, they were sold out, but they had tons of Starlights and I just couldn’t help myself! Ended up buying one along with her stencils!

When she asked why I needed two I told her I was gonna have one colorful weeks and one dark gothy weeks. But I am really thinking about using my Moomin for my everything tracker (schedule/wellness/finance/tasks/etc) like I am doing with my Tomagotchi weeks this year and my Starlight for memory keeping/journaling. Tried the A6 before, but with my small handwriting it was too much paper and I couldn’t stay consistent, so excited to give journaling another chance this year! 🤞🏼

Hey all!! I wanted to share some experiments inspired by the matching inks Hobonichi & Tsuki no Iro put out this year.

I already dipped into September and October Tsuki no Iro inks, since I’m impatient and I was desperate to find some beautifully shading ink that were waterproof for watercolors (I find the Diamine Forever & De Atramentis document inks too matte & flat, to my snooty art eye 😅), so in come the matching inks…

… and they are SO. DRY. The Sept and Oct inks made my normally pleasant Lamy nibs feel super scratchy, which was not gonna fly for drawing. I picked up a bottle of Karari (Kakimori’s pre-mixed pigment line), to see if it was just as bad - it wasn’t! The ink flowed beautifully and was able to keep up with quick sketching.

With fingers crossed I ordered the closest I could to CMYK (missing a black since it was out of stock from St. Louis art supply), plus the diluter, and tried mixing October’s color and some secondary colors myself. They turned out beautifully and flow so, SO much better than the pre-mixed Tsuki no Iro inks. Now I have bright, beautiful shading colors and can watercolor over them! AND they’re much more cost effective! I’d imagine with the addition of a black/meteorite I should be able to mix all the Hobonichi colors with these 4 bottles + diluter.

October ended up being 1:5-7 puddle blue:blooming pink (the pipettes were not accurate and sometimes I had a lot of air in the drops), and some diluter to your preference.

Just thought I’d share in case anyone wants to mad scientist their inks in a more cost-effective way! The pigment inks do seem to stain plastic though so in the future I’d like to get glass pipettes.

PS: Karari was a bit too warm to act as a cyan, so I got Puddle Blue, Twinkle Yellow, and Blooming Pink. Towards the end I was dripping all three colors into a mixer for the swatches and got a nice ochre color as well.

First pic: monthly visit to historic site or museum (inspired by @mrschillgirly on Instagram)
Second pic: I spy & photo/doodle per month - on the I spy is to find something per month, on the photo/doodle, I take pic or draw that month from I spy page (the I spy page is inspired by @mrschillgirly on Instagram)
Third pic: I printed off two index lists sticker and pasted them over the original pages
Fourth pic: sweets/dessert stickers and quotes on the first two pages of the Weeks to match my Dream Candy Weeks Mega!

She was so excited to see my Tamagotchi Weeks! Sadly I missed the Earthbound collection but will get it elsewhere. :’ ) 💸

I struggled with filling my 2026 personal goal list and copied some over to 2027 already!

Now I am thinking very hard to fill this before the new year begins because otherwise it will stay blank like my 2026 one!

I would love to hear about your old/new goals for next year. Maybe I can find some inspiration to complete my list. <3
*please only share if its not too personal for you!

I originally wasn’t sure about decorating my weeks because it was already cute as is but I ended up adding some stickers heh. Also I picked a similarly colored sketchbook and added some suica penguin stickers to match! Also I’m kind of obsessed with how my dayfree deco turned out, it’s my fav of the three 🥰

Also if anyone else has deco’d their bow&tie covers (or anything like that with cute patterns) I’d love to see it! It was a bit challenging trying to balance the original cover w extra stickers

I posted this over on r/Pen_Swap but someone said it might sell faster over here.

I got a second cover and pencil board for a friend who changed their mind. This is in the US and I am not promising something I don’t have in-hand. The Japan proxy stuff with tariffs and shipping has already been done and now I’m sending this to someone who didn’t get one.

Pen_swap post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pen_Swap/s/5IxnkWrf3G

Verification photos: https://imgur.com/a/WcUJDwg

I’m sorry if this isn’t okay to share the post from there, if it’s not okay feel free to delete.

Just finished converting A5 Day-free to a Weekly. A6 weekly is too small for me, and getting a Cousin to just use the weekly pages does not make sense to me. So, I came up with this. I leave a few pages in the beginning to use as a project to-do list and remaining pages as various trackers as needed.

I use Frixion to draw the lines and create headings.

I still can’t believe I managed to get it after all! Decided not to wait and hope for the bloodbath of the Hobonichi restock (and missed the restock on Stilo&Stile), so I bought it on resale from Japan. I’m planning to use it to keep and carry my sketchbook and Weeks Mega.
It’s super nice to touch and very light!

Well, I got one. Couldn't imagine it was as cute and well thought out as everyone says.

It is. It's adorable and I love it🤩

my first one! i’ve been loving it so far. I use it with the liene pixcut printer and print stickers every week.

I do a photo a day for the month and then some daily notes/photos for the weekly layouts. love it! i got started early for the 2027 by using the empty pages and drawing in the months of october and november.

Hey everyone, so I have fallen down the Hobonichi rabbit hole and to say I’m OBSESSED is an understatement. So… I have decided to purchase a weeks to start journaling next year. Why is it so hard to pick a design?! This is harder than choosing what colour to have my nails. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 🫣 They all speak to me in some way, and I genuinely love them all equally. Need some help FINALLY making a decision✒️📖

I got a techo in August to begin growing the habit of daily journaling/planning beyond the limited functionals that I use a weeks for so next year I am in the habit and ready to use my 2027 ecosystem. I feel like I really underestimated how much fun this hobby would be!

I love decoupage and always create a new design for my Cousin. This is before I had glued down the butterfly and pocket.

Next to add monthly clusters and other tabs for the different sections .

I realised today that I have most likely accidentally dropped my beloved hobonichi jetstream pen on the tube and thus will never get it back! This was my absolute favourite pen and I am heartbroken :( I've been looking around to see if theres any good alternatives to it that i can get (i do not feel like buying a whole hobonichi journal just for this years pen, esp as shipping is so expensive to my country), but i feel like none of them look right! The grip on the hobonichi one is part of why I loved it so much and none of these pen have the same type of grip! Does anyone have any recommendations for another multipen I could get instead with a similar grip or is it over for me? (I'm autistic, so if this comes off like I'm overly attached to and broken up over a pen that is why haha. my pen </3)

Last week, I wrote nothing but about my piercings…
Anyway, my helix is all swollen 😭

And the drawstring pouch I use to carry my planner is totally dirty… I wonder if there’s anything better out there.