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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 02/10/2026

It's Podcastathon day (September 32nd) in support of St. Jude! My sub-campaign with extra rewards of mailed postcards and lots of designs to paint with fountain pen ink (or watercolors/markers/etc.) should remain live theough the weekend, join me: oliveoctopus.ink/stjude.htm

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Supporting St. Jude | Olive Octopus

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 01/05/2026

This title is still making me giggle.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 01/05/2026

Wow I've written several posts since I last posted here, but here's the latest one checking in on one of my favorite inky projects, the Col-o-dex. oliveoctopus.ink/colodex-3yea...

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Col-o-dex Update: 3 Years In | Olive Octopus

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Brad Dowdy @penaddict.com · 12/03/2026

The Pen Addict on the DWRDNET Stationery Feed www.penaddict.com/blog/2026/3/12/th…

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 07/11/2025

Happy Fountain Pen Day! I'm excited about how these turned out. After visiting Butler Stationery with friends all morning, find me at The Gentleman Stationer (in Nashville, TN) the rest of the day. youtube.com/shorts/mBucO...

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Happy Fountain Pen Day 2025!

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Brad Dowdy @penaddict.com · 30/09/2025

I am live playing Blue Prince for a Pen Addict After Dark stream. Come say hi! twitch.tv/penaddict

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Blue Prince - First Play! !stjude

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 22/09/2025

There's one day left of a matching donation with $32 remaining, and my custom reward items will be available at least through the end of September! tiltify.com/@oliveoctopu...

Screenshot of progress bars on St Jude campaign page on Tiltify showing about 1 day remaining with $218 of $250 matching donations used, and $1,742 raised so far with a goal of $1,800.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 20/09/2025

It's still September and I'm thankful for all who've joined me and @relay.fm to support St. Jude. I've put up a matching donation up to $250 through Mon, sent out several new thank you rewards, and look forward to more special streams this month—come hang out on Twitch! oliveoctopus.ink/stjude.htm

Handmade A6 booklets made with twelve different fountain pen friendly papers and a medium brown cover, one side has 12 stained glass floral designs to color or paint, and the other side with labeled blank pages for writing tests.

Handmade booklets about 4 inches square with a blush cover and two copies each of 12 stained glass floral designs to color or paint, on fountain pen friendly b7 Natural paper.

Small papers about 4 inches square with stained glass floral and sea creatute designs to color or paint, printed on fountain pen friendly b7 Natural paper.

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The Well-Appointed Desk @wellappointeddesk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In The Shop: Gamify Your Life Zine We have just listed our new zine: Gamify Your Life Players Handbook (2nd Edition) ($12 for zine, $20 for kit)-- "Make it Fun to Get Sh*t Done". This zine was created to accompany my workshops of the same name but I've packed it full of enough information that I…

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In The Shop: Gamify Your Life Zine

We have just listed our new zine: Gamify Your Life Players Handbook (2nd Edition) ($12 for zine, $20 for kit)-- "Make it Fun to Get Sh*t Done". This zine was created to accompany my workshops of the same name but I've packed it full of enough information that I think it is a great jumpstart into the gamification of your life planning.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 08/09/2025

So excited to read Ana's answers to this question list! 💚🩷💚 The list of questions for the fountain pen/pen/stationery community and my own answers can be found here: oliveoctopus.ink/12penpersonq... #12PenPersonQuestions

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Stephen Hackett @ismh86.net · 27/08/2025

Since 2019, the @relay.fm community has raised over $4 million for the life-saving work of St. Jude. When I stepped foot on its campus with my son in 2009, I had no idea where life was taking us, but I'm thankful it's here. stjude.org/relay

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 10/06/2025

This is a collaboration from my local shop, The Gentleman Stationer, and Hinze pens. It's my first micarta pen, a material of layers of fabric or fiber in resin that will patina with use. A pocket pen with a dark purple metal section and light purple nib. www.gentlemanstationer.com/the-curated-...

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TGS x Hinze Pen Taschenstift "Violet Tendencies" Fountain Pen — The Gentleman Stationer

The latest custom collaboration with Hinze Pens is a play on their “Taschenstift” (“pocket pen”), featuring a micarta/crazyfibre material called “Violet Tendencies” that we’ve chosen to pair with a de...

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 10/06/2025

This was a recent pen acquisition to celebrate crossing some big things off the to-do list, and some small but cool things that have happened recently. TGS x Hinze Taschenstift in CrazyFiber Violet Tendencies (M) Diamine Vivaldi

Uncapped fountain pen, The Gentleman Stationer x Hinze Taschenstift pocket pen in purple CrazyFiber material called Violet Tendencies with dark gray purple metal section and pale lilac anodized nib, sitting on top of A5 notebook with writing sample of multiple purple inks, with the slightly gray purple Diamine Vivaldi ink featured in the center.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 09/06/2025

Bright inks may not be my wheelhouse, but despite being pleasantly surprised by the character in these TWSBI inks when first swatched I've rarely reached for them since and they deserve better! The bottles are nice too. I used 8 TWSBI inks to paint in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book.

Eight 18ml frosted glass bottles with TWSBI fountain pen inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink. Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir, open to page with design of roses climbing up a wall and a window looking out to a castle on a cliff, a ship, and the sky filled with a crescent moon and stars, all painted with those 8 inks, and a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles with colorful inks in the wells.

Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir, page with design of roses climbing up a wall and a window looking out to a castle on a cliff, a ship, and the sky filled with a crescent moon and stars, all painted with TWSBI inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink.

Closeup of a large rose painted pale orange on a page in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, Log of Elixir.

Eight 18ml frosted glass bottles with TWSBI inks Orange, Prairie Green, Emerald Green, Sky Blue, Navy, Royal Purple, Grape, and Pink, corresponding Col-o-dex ink swatch cards for each ink, and a ceramic paint palette that looks like bubbles with colorful inks in the wells.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 20/05/2025

I've been testing out using the Notsu vertical To-Do cards and horizontal Week cards (available at my local pen shop, gentlemanstationer.com), and currently these are leading as the potential replacement for my Hobonichi Weeks next year.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 18/05/2025

I'm enjoying it! I'm glad the show has found ways to adapt the inner monologue and perspective of Murderbot fairly well. It's challenging to navigate the change from being a "ride-along" in the main character's POV in a book to a more external view of that character and their world in a show.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 16/05/2025

Yep! Watched the first two episodes last night.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 12/05/2025

I painted with three scented inks from Dominant Industry in the Ink Archiving book today. Bog Sage (Top Note) Ylang Ylang (Middle Note) Duftrausch (Bottom Note) I also used Allegory to have a darker shade to work with.

The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir open to a page with sketches of birds and a scene of a garden with a large gazebo with trees behind and a pool of water in front with water lilies, a large tiered bird bath, several birds including a peacock, and a cat, all painted with 4 Dominant Industry inks. Next to the book are 3 bottles of fountain pen ink and a paint palette that looks like a cluster of bubbles with the remains of drops of ink.

Inks used:
Bog Sage (Scented, Top Note), a bright light blue
Ylang Ylang (Scented, Middle Note), a bright yellow
Duftrausch (Scented, Bottom Note), a muted gray pink
Allegory (Standard), a dark indigo gray

A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with a peacock sitting on a large vase in the middle of a pool of water with lily pads, painted with fountain pen inks.

A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with four birds on a large tiered bird bath and sculpture in a pool of water with lily pads, painted with fountain pen inks.

A closeup of The Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir page with three birds and ribbons around rectangles of ink swatches and the names of each ink written nearby.

Bog Sage (Scented, Top Note), a bright light blue
Ylang Ylang (Scented, Middle Note), a bright yellow
Duftrausch (Scented, Bottom Note), a muted gray pink
Allegory (Standard), a dark indigo gray

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 08/05/2025

So, in a rare on-camera appearance I talked with my friend Derek about fountain pens, paper, and of course inks. youtu.be/QUNFyzVwWXQ

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DWRDNET Stationery Feed Episode 7 With Lisa of Olive Octopus Ink

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 04/05/2025

All my palettes had leftover dried out ink and there are several Yamamoto papers I've only spent a little bit of time with, so I got out a pile of waterbrushes and pencils and pens and ponies and went to town on stream today. ...I've now added to my TGS shopping list, and am off to wash palettes.

A desk top full of ceramic and plastic ink palettes with the dregs of colorful fountain pen inks, several sheets of paper with colorfully painted ink ponies and flowers and an example of a letter with a colorful ink wash background. Other tools on the desk include water brushes and fountain pens.

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Brad Dowdy @penaddict.com · 01/05/2025

Today's activity at the #InkPonyClub.

Waterbrush coloring with fountain pen inks in the Dominant Industry Elixir book.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 29/04/2025

Re-upping this:

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 22/04/2025

Two years after I went to my first fountain pen show, I returned to the Atlanta Pen Show (Oops! All Friends editon). oliveoctopus.ink/atlpenshow25...

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2025 Atlanta Pen Show Highlights | Olive Octopus

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 20/04/2025

I used fountain pen inks from my visits to Butler Stationery in Columbia TN for painting today, this page fit the colors and the day. Troublemaker: Sinulog Black Petrichor Moon River Diamine: Twilight Merlot Monaco Red I always enjoy talking to Jonathan, stop by his shop if you ever get chance!

Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir, open to a page featuring dragons, phoenixes, and ornate eggs painted with fountain pen inks in blues, greens, red, pink, and purple.

Troublemaker inks:
Sinulog Black
Petrichor
Moon River

Diamine inks:
Twilight
Merlot
Monaco Red

Close up of flying phoenix and phoenix wing painted in reds and purples in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir.

Close up of dragon with 4 legs, wings, a long tail, and open mouth, an outstretched dragon wing, an ornate egg, and a view of a baby dragon curled up in an egg painted in blues, greens, and grays in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir.

A ceramic paint palette that looks like a cluster of bubbles in varying sizes next to the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book, A Log of Elixir, open to a page showing ink swatches for six Birmingham Pen Co inks and these inks:

Troublemaker Sinulog Black, a dark greenish black
Troublemaker Petrichor, a chromashading blue, green, purple
Troublemaker Moon River, a gray, teal, and pink
Diamine Twilight, a dark blue
Diamine Merlot, a pinkish purple
Diamine Monaco Red, a warm muted

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 19/04/2025

I spent most of my day off today at Butler Stationery's new shop location in Columbia, TN visiting with friends, meeting new people, testing pens and nibs, talking inks, comparing papers, and of course finding some fun things to take home.

Interior of a stationery shop with dark green walls and warm wood shelves filled with inks, paper, notebooks, mugs, leather goods, pens, pencils, and accessories. A large table with chairs is in the back.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 18/04/2025

This is a great interview by Derek (dwrdnet) with Darrell (D² Arts), who made this beautiful, hand carved fountain pen I got at the Arkansas Pen Show. I talked with Darrell quite a bit at the show, but loved learning more about how he came to make these incredible pens. youtu.be/dwKfK8bFx6o

A hand-carved, rich blue sparkly resin fountain pen from D² Arts with a spiral carved around the pen from end to end.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 04/04/2025

Good morning Atlanta! Getting some fresh air before it gets ridiculously hot for early April.

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Mike @inkdependence.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you’re online during the day, there are a few of us who stream stationery content on Twitch and we’re always happy to answer questions and show you how to do things. Need to know how to fill a fountain pen? Swatch inks? Unclog your pen? Turn up! m.twitch.tv/inkdependenc...

Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 31/03/2025

I wrote about my time at the Arkansas Pen Show. oliveoctopus.ink/arpenshow25....

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2025 Arkansas Pen Show | Olive Octopus

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Carola @fromcarola.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I was a guest on the Pen Addict podcast this week! We chatted about my art, workshops, live streaming, and how creativity brings us joy. And of course fountain pens 😊🖋️ Thanks for having me @penaddict.com !

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 23/03/2025

Time flies but it's been so good to meet people, hang out with friends, and talk ink at the Arkansas pen show. Yesterday I spent time checking out all the unique hand-sculpted pens from D² Arts and chose this beautiful blue sculpture that happens to also be a pen. www.instagram.com/d_squared_arts

A hand-sculpted fountain pen in dark blue resin with a long spiral carved from end to end, resting on a pen sleeve of dark gray batik fabric with a pattern of cream color horizontal and vertical lines, and a business card for D² Arts, Darrell Davis.

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 22/03/2025

Good morning, Day 2 of the Arkansas pen show! Let's see if I can level up my purchase yesterday with a new grind. I've been wanting something in this material for almost a year, and the metal accents really make this pen unique. Magnolia Pen Company pen in Saturn's Storm by Pourly Controlled

Magnolia Pen Company fountain pen in Saturn's Storm resin material by Pourly Controlled, a swirly pearl amd black with bolts of shimmery orange and pink, and thin metal bands of copper, brass, copper accents near both ends of the pen

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Olive Octopus @oliveoctopus.ink · 16/03/2025

I picked out the most squirrely of Birmingham Pen Co inks and you'll have to take my word or catch me at a pen show to see how different these inks look in person versus a camera and/or different lighting conditions (not just white-balance)—it's wild.

A page in the Dominant Industry Ink Archiving book, A Log of Elixir, painted with fountain pen ink. The right page has several laboratory contraptions with glass tubes and vials and a cat peering into a large round glass, and the left page has six swatches and closeups of the items painted in monochrome, one for each ink used.

Six Birmingham Pen Co inks were used:
Ploughman's Pebble
Saltmarsh
Antique Sanguine
Puce Lagoon
Royal Prune
Wilting Thicket

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