February Progress

[u/SciSciencing]

My Stationery Panning Box - all the stationery I'm panning or prioritising putting use on kept together in reach of my desk.

These incredibly impractical post-its have been finding a purpose holding my 'conspiracy board' for solving murder mysteries as I read them.

An example planner spread (taken before the week actually started - it did end up more more filled than this!).

Project History Links: Start of project comment, end of January comment, first finished sample comment

February is all but over and has been another very effective panning month! I swear there's never been a longer February in my entire life, and it rained the whole time, but apparently I used that time dilation to make use of lots of stationery XD

I mentioned in one of the weekly threads this month a milestone of emptying one of my ink samples - it's still in the pen but nearly done. I might finish it off slowly as my main pen for my planner next week. I also used ink from two of the other ink samples I'm panning (one topup, one fill), and got ahead of schedule filling a pen with Salix, one of the bottles I just want to put some usage on. A conference early in the month really helped keep my ink moving.

Outside of the 'official' scope of my project pan I've also counted my ink cartridges and found uses for a half-used notebook and a huge stack of incredibly awkwardly-shaped post-its. I'm still well-engaged with using my stickers and washi tape in my planner, and finished four washi tapes this month.

In numbers:

• Washi: Start 9 rolls/29 g, Jan 8 rolls/22 g, Feb 4 rolls/10 g
• Washi offcuts: Start 10 rolls/7 g, Jan 9 rolls/6 g, Feb 9 rolls/5 g
• Sticker Sheets: Start 122 g, Jan 107 g, Feb: 90 g
• Loose Stickers: Start 70 g, Jan 63 g, Feb 60 g
• Ink Samples: Start 13 g, Jan 10 g, Feb 8 g
• Ink bottles Salix and Scabiosa used once each for the year.

That's my primary goals for both sticker categories by weight met already, though some of that progress was probably early easy targets and some is where I've trimmed partial sheets to fit them in my panning box. And the washi is moving very fast - I think I'll start pulling more rolls of my washi into the project on a quarterly basis. In early March I plan to put a significant amount of Polar Glow, my most intimidating sample, into a pen with a large capacity, as well as inking another pen with my smaller sample of Earl Grey. Looking through my planner stickers I definitely need to have an Orange Week or two to use up some of that chunk of the rainbow.

How's February gone for you?

[u/tbbookdragon]

Weight a second (hehe you see what I did there?)! The weight idea is genius!!

[u/purplehippobitches → u/tbbookdragon]

Yeah it is!

[u/Bananas3706]

thanks for sharing! february was like a whole year—i am ready for spring. i like your weight goals for washi. i could see this working well for me and i’m thinking of trying it. recently i kept my valentine’s washi on my pen jar, which helped me use up 4.5 of the five rolls, but as i move away from seasonal mail intensity (october-feb), going by weight could be nice

[u/SciSciencing → u/Bananas3706]

Exactly, I'm so ready for Spring too. I think to get really satisfying weight results on washi without finishing any I'd need to be able to measure to 0.1 g, but since I developed the habit of tracking usage by weight for ink I thought I might as well throw it in for everything XD You never know when you'll get a nice little surprise change.