I know you would not believe this. It’s my latest obsession with pencils. My son found an unopened pack of Mongol pencils a few days ago while he was looking for some files and he gave it to me. It has six unsharpened pencils inside and I told him, “I wish I have a nice pencil sharpener to go with these”. Then he said, “there is a sharpener there, I think” but when I looked, it was an eraser used on tracing papers, the kind that does not make holes on paper. I remember those times when I was in grade school and used to collect pencils of different length complete with a metal case with some character designs. I’ve used pencils lately in some of my notes before transferring them to my journal. Much as I am obsessed with collecting journals, I collect gel pens too.
When I was in college, I had lots of colored pens and pencils which I used for bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, curves , and everything that an Economics major could use to present something in graphs instead of numbers. The proverbial law of supply and demand meeting somewhere at some point with colors green and red intersecting each other, I loved those. Or maybe I haven’t lost my penchant for such colorful charts in my notebooks after all these years. This afternoon, I went to National Bookstore to buy a pencil sharpener…haha! So many shapes in different colors and I was like a child smiling at the picture of a fifty-six year old grandma who can’t decide what color and what shape to buy. And I still dream of buying a thick coloring book to while the time away when I get bored. Goodness, I laugh at myself sometimes 🙂
Seriously, I am in the thick of reading another Ken Follett thriller entitled The Third Twin, a story of genetic manipulation. An exciting read.
I love pencils too! Totally understand that obsession. And now I want a colouring in book too 🙂
I have only read Fall of Giants by Ken Follett but I absolutely loved it. I am on the lookout for the sequel. He is a brilliant writer.
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Let’s try the coloring book. I am looking for something a little complicated to color.
You must read Pillars Of The Earth and the sequel, World Without End, you will surely love them both.
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I will! I need to wait until I have a little holiday, then sit down and read the whole trilogy in order. Heaven. 🙂
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I like Eye of The Needle too, my first book of Ken Follett and Lie Down With Lions is a fast-paced thriller on Afghanistan.
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you know as much as I hate to admit this, I have the same guilty pleasure 😀 I love the sight of white pages, empty notebooks, fresh sharped pencils and oh my God!! My aunt lives abroad, and whenever she was about to visit she would ask what i would like and i would say pencils 😀 And so after a number of visits I have a few dozen pencils 😛 I still have them and a whole box of unfilled diaries. Crazy right? 😀
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Now I know I am not alone Z, thanks for sharing. Yes, it’s kind of crazy that sometimes you don’t even want to write on the pristine pages of your journals. A generous friend gifted me with ten lovely journals last year and I’ve only used one so far.
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haha 🙂 You used at least one of them. If i would’ve been in your place, i would hide it somewhere and take it out from time to time and just look at it 😀
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Believe me Z, they are kept and lovingly stored, dust free :). I do take them down from time to time and look at the covers and those pages with inspirational quotes in every page.
You can visit this earlier post: https://arlene1956.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/of-journals-and-writing/
The one I am using now is the biggest and the thickest of them all, good enough for those thoughts and reminders that I need to jot down.
Thanks again 🙂
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I love the spiral ones 😀 I always like the spiral with the beautiful covers. And i used to have an obsession for boxes too but there isn’t much space around my house so I had to get rid of them. I guess you say that I like creating things, you know arts and crafts. But sadly I’ve never gotten the platform to learn more teechniques
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My daughter is into a lot of things. Aside from being a bookworm, she’s into making jewelries, personalized cards etc. I learned to make rosaries because of her.
Thanks again Z.
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Thanks for the pingback 🙂
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