{"id":21466,"date":"2022-11-30T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=21466"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:35:13","slug":"letters-by-lydia-at-home-pen-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/11\/30\/letters-by-lydia-at-home-pen-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters by Lydia: At Home Pen Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back y&#8217;all! I hope everyone had a great break and isn&#8217;t feeling too overwhelmed about getting back into school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21480 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E38C999F-5B9D-4BD5-AB60-DE0F3C7641FD_1_201_a-192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E38C999F-5B9D-4BD5-AB60-DE0F3C7641FD_1_201_a-192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E38C999F-5B9D-4BD5-AB60-DE0F3C7641FD_1_201_a-768x1200.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E38C999F-5B9D-4BD5-AB60-DE0F3C7641FD_1_201_a-655x1024.jpeg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all realized by now, the size of my pen collection is a bit absurd, and definitely not the most conducive to college housing.\u00a0 I had to leave a lot behind when I came to school, so whenever I go home, I get really excited to use them all again.\u00a0 I have a lot at home right now, and a little more room than I thought I would for pens, so I thought it would be fun to show you guys how I went through them all and picked what to bring back to Ann Arbor.\u00a0 For the major pen sets, I included their swatches and my opinions on them below.\u00a0 I know the swatches for some of the smaller pens are really tough to see, but I hope you can at least kind of see the colors and the size of the nib.\u00a0 I did also bring home the posca set you can see in the box picture, but I forgot to take pictures of those swatches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21487 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21482 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/17FFD166-2C45-438C-B607-43677BF5BE19_1_201_a-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/17FFD166-2C45-438C-B607-43677BF5BE19_1_201_a-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/17FFD166-2C45-438C-B607-43677BF5BE19_1_201_a-768x1027.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/17FFD166-2C45-438C-B607-43677BF5BE19_1_201_a-766x1024.jpeg 766w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/17FFD166-2C45-438C-B607-43677BF5BE19_1_201_a.jpeg 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>After that came all the random, individual pens.\u00a0 I tested a ton, but here are the ones I brought back.\u00a0 From left to right:<\/p>\n<p>Pentel Tradio Stylo Sketch Pen: so smooth and precise, very fun to write with<\/p>\n<p>Uni Ball Signo 207: Very smooth and a great pen for writing, plus I have the rest of this set in Ann Arbor anyway<\/p>\n<p>Bcmini Donut Bear Pen: Besides being adorable, this pen is so incredibly smooth and fun to write with<\/p>\n<p>Uni Posca: Posca pens are amazing, don&#8217;t know why I left this behind in the first place<\/p>\n<p>Campus ViviDry: these are also super smooth and similar to the uni ball signo<\/p>\n<p>It was really hard for me to be so picky and not bring back everything, but I&#8217;m super happy with the ones I chose and can&#8217;t wait to do some reviews for you guys!\u00a0 Enjoy the week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back y&#8217;all! I hope everyone had a great break and isn&#8217;t feeling too overwhelmed about getting back into school. As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all realized by now, the size of my pen collection is a bit absurd, and definitely not the most conducive to college housing.\u00a0 I had to leave a lot behind when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":20697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1901,1910,1940,1867,1866,1892,1869,1941,1893,1868,1939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21466"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21494,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions\/21494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}