Learning an $800 Lesson about Pen Collecting
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I think I knew before I even ordered the pen that it wouldn't satisfy me completely. I already have everything I want in the Rotring Isograph, which is a totally different type of pen (as far as the nib goes) but if curiosity didn't kill this cat, it at least lightened its wallet. I'm still happy with the purchase of this pen, since it arrived exactly to my specifications, and it was only my own hopes and dreams that somehow spending more on a pen might mystically make it better, and it did, but only in ways that are adjacent to the things that truly matter to me, that is, how it feels to draw with it. And it's not bad to draw with, it works great, but I think no fountain pen ever will really be as satisfying to me as my Rotring Isograph, which is the peak of utilitarian line-making.
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I love how we have converted him into a fountain pen addict. Its so fun to watch him go through the stages.
Right? So good. I just converted a friend at work!
@@krakentowa8727 excellent
The part in the dating section of the newspaper says:
"Interesting and intelligent man, looking for an sensitive/soulful [ gefühlsvoll really doesn't translate very well into english ] and pretty girlfriend, between 40-50 years. I am 46years and have blue eyes. Call me."
thanks! haha scrolled down to comments just to see if anyone had helpfully translated it
I support your 800 decision as long as i can involuntarily shake my head everytime you say it lol.
Lol fair enough
WOWSERS! Good for you! It's important and healthy to be nice to ourselves - so, I am all for self-gifting. If you have the money and can afford to do it - why not? Besides - if you make your living as a pen and ink artist you can write it off your taxes as a business investment - HAHAHAHAH - Happy Holidays Peter! ***HUGS***
The newspaper advert said "Interesting and intelligent man searches a feelful and pretty girlfriend, between 40 and 50 years. I am 46 and have blue eyes. Call me" so you got most of it right anyway. "Gefühlsvoll" is a compound word of "feeling" and "full", so feelful is a really literal translation, there is probably a more poetic way to translate it.
I would translate "gefühlvoll" with sensitive. Like in patient, empathic or simply nice to other people and propably mostly towards him. ;)
gefühlsvoll means soulful, sensitive, emotional
Man...in Switzerland they actually want that? I Married out of the wrong German speaking country.
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REVIEW the guitar!!!!
No, it is Gefühlswolle: Emotionwool.
@@meinpupsstinkt1476 what is that?
Ok, hello everyone.
Merry Christmas Peter Draws, you have been one of my favourite discoveries this year
Thank you, you’re very kind
Just I will do a gift for myself this Christmas... I have buy a ISOgragh Rotring 0.35 after to see that vídeo xD XD XD
@@savethewill9149 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺
@@RichMitch Hahahaha
Peter you’ll never be a simple clickbait channel, you put care into your videos. There’s no shame in making clickbaity titles so the algorithm is on your side
I'd have to respectfully disagree. There's absolutely no reason to stoop so low as to use clickbait. Clickbait is outright lying...what you see is not what you get. And it IS a shameful practice. Why would anyone sell their soul to please an algorithm?
@@andylegg1878 I don't think he "sold his soul" at all. Always found Peter rather honest about his reviews (remember the fancy pencil sharpener?). I don't mind a bit of racolage in the title, a man's got to eat.....
@@lililangtry1881 Apologies if my comment was confusing. I never meant to suggest Peter has ever 'sold his soul' to the mighty TH-cam algorithms. I find his content easily compelling.
I meant to infer that I bemoan those who ARE just fishing for views by posting dishonest titles and thumbnails, and that there's no need to go that route.
As a german, who can make pens out of wood, i can send you as many unique/one of a kind pens and german newspapers as you want and it will not even cost 20$.
It might cost $20 just to ship it
Do you have a website shop? Because that sounds cool. I have two wooden pen bodies and I always love the feel of the wood. One is made with ironwood so it is very heavy, it will sink in water.
Etwas Komisches ist, daß man so deutlich sehen kann, daß du ein Deutscher bist, durch die Weise, wodurch du Beistriche für Relativsätze sogar auf Englisch nutzen, lol
Omg drop the link I would love to buy pens from you
Please don’t undersell your work! I’m sure the materials alone can cost $20, your time is valuable too!!
i love how he smells everything 😂
The title got me thinking you ruined hundreds of pens somehow
I thought it meant he took a class about pen collecting that cost $800 lmao
Funny... I was assuming that he just ruined one really expensive one, lol
"You collect stamps... but do you ever mail anything?" I laughed out loud. Nice video, Peter!
Now that we know your initials, we can now guess your full name. PJD stands for Peter James Draw.
*Draws
It is possible to mitigate the effects of old sayings by mixing them up on, as it were, the artist's palette of well being. A fool and his money think alike and seldom differ ;)
Man, i fucking love peter, it's the best thing to watch while high
What is "fucking love" ? Never heard of it.
Glad I'm not alone 😂
What I'm doing right now lol
So fuckin true hahhaah
Totally agree.
As a pen enthusiast my initial thought was "Okay, 800$ is expensive, but not outrageous, I've seen more expensive pens" Then you started talking about the pen, and when I realized that it was a hand made artisanal item, I changed my mind, and now I feel like it's a great price for what you have! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this artist's beautiful pen with the world.
Ever appreciative of how absolutely human you are, thank you for all your content (including the content free podcasts), thank you for your exorbitant pen purchase and the resulting analysis, and here's hoping you get yourself out of your creative slump.
peter's initials stand for Peter Just Draws, in case anyone was wondering
Preeeetttyyyy sure it's Peter Jesus Draws
It’s actually police department
Maybe you could look into getting a custom pen with an Isograph nib but a body of whatever you want. Like metal or lacquer.
It's strange. Everyone I know is currently in an inexplicable creativity slump - artists of every medium and caliber. Is this a phenomenon others are also experiencing right now?
I’m actually really getting into quite a groove (I write, paint with watercolor, and bullet journal). December was HORRIBLE though.
It's called seasonal depression and it happens when the days are getting shorter. It likely also happens when people aren't getting consistent sleep because of when it gets dark and when it gets bright.
2020 had a lack of in-person social interaction and overwhelming amounts of negative news shown globally. So many lives were changed completely and utterly and many were lost to factors outside of their control. All of that means most people were probably already depressed and had seasonal depression on top of that this winter
@@Greennoob2 No kidding, bud. It's been a tough year.
I am also in the worst artistic slump I’ve ever experienced. With all the anxiety and chaos we have experienced in the past few years, I guess it’s no wonder we don’t feel right. I’m hoping it’s just a year of staying almost exclusively at home. I hope it isn’t permanent.
The term "unearth" is referring to "earth" as the ground. There are two definitions of "earth." There is "Earth," as the proper noun and name for our planet, and there is "earth" as the common noun that refers to the ground (of any planet). To unearth something means to bring something up from the ground. Therefore, an ancient Martian artifact and an Earth one would both be "unearthed" from their respective planets.
Found the nerd!
So there’s earth on Mars?
@@peter_draws Well, that's an interesting question because "earth" typically refers to soil. And, I'm sure as you know there's no soil on Mars, OR perhaps there may be because there is a very minor amount of water on mars? But, that brings us to the larger problem that there are two definitions of "unearth." You can say you unearthed something as you dug it up out of the ground, OR you can say you unearthed something, in the metaphorical sense, as you discovered something.
*God, I hate English*
you should commission someone to cover a rotring isograph with layers of urushi lacquer to make the best peter draws pen ever.
For real though, I'd buy an upgraded barrel made out of aluminum or something.
That would be very dangerous to my wallet ..
Everything is dangerous to wallets
How about a job?
I really enjoyed your drawing this evening. Thanks for sharing Peter
Thank you
Hope you have a great Christmas, Peter 🤍
I don’t know if this is what he meant, but I feel similar where buying something that sounds fun or doing something that seems out of the norm gives me a mid life crisis feeling, even if I’m not old enough to have that specific kind of feeling. I draw, I play music, so this speaks to me in that way. But I got them COVID blues these days too, more than usual, so this felt like a good video to watch.
I hope those blues go away soon, my friend.
@@t.b.109 thanks 😊
Peter's artist "slump" is everyone else's master piece
Ha! I got excited too when I ordered from Japan and the local newspaper was in the packaging. :)
As someone who is on a fixed income, and has dove down the rabbit hole of vintage fountain pens (I'm currently working on a selection of Esterbrook pens, as they tend to be more wallet friendly, and have 33 different possibilities for nibs) I doubt that this pen, no matter how awesome it is, will ever be in my price range. That said, I can also agree with the favourite pen thing. Whilst mine isn't the same as yours, I do have preferences. With the Esterbrook pens, it's mainly the 9xxx nibs I currently have, with a strong dislike for anything extra fine in ANY pen. (I'm more of a writer than I will ever be an artist, and almost every extra fine seems too scratchy for my taste. Though I have found a couple...)
I get the block thing, even though it is more in who and what to write.
Keep up the great work, and stay safe! Thanks for sharing this with us!
I was indeed listening at the end of 2021. Your video was very relaxing 💜 Hope you have a wonderful new year!
It's your hard earned dollars. It's wonderful to gift luxurious things to ourselves. You can do whatever you want with your money. I'm happy for you. I just cleaned and refilled the vintage in the box KOH-I-NOOR RAPIDOGRAPH 7 pen set that I found in the stuff a jewelry store was throwing away. Works perfectly.
I'm glad to see another Koh-i-noor Rapidograph fan. I got mine waaaaaaayyyyy back for a drafting class (I just got them because they were required). Years later I rediscovered them in a drawer. Glad you got yours free -- they're now selling for nearly $200 for the set.
Awesome find! I am glad you were able to save them. Rapidographs are such great pens.
Peter, I honestly hope that you did not just read off the "Missing Persons" tab of the newspaper lololol
An here I felt bad for spending $40 on a pen 😭
Silly you.😉
Yep, me too.
3:30 manu propria is latin, literally "by his own hand", it translate as "by hand", like made by hand
So some thoughts. I think you shouldn't worry about the price. You payed a fair price for the labor and material involved and got a stunning piece of art/craftmanship that is also an incredibly functional pen. Now a question, can your sponsors tell if I skip over the sponsored section? I don't care about hearing about squarespace, but would gladly spend the minute if it helps you get compensated for your content.
I don't believe they can. They just usually pay the channels they sponsor at a fixed rate per however many views. Only is the TH-cam ads NOT baked into a video have to be viewed through, or clicked on (depending on the type) to contribute to his TH-cam revenue. So like, an adblocker would cause you to contribute slightly less.
Just order a really cool penshaped holder for ur isograph!!! Lol
Yeah maybe I can design and 3D print something
@@peter_draws that would be insanely cool!!!
Love you Peter! Happy Christmas 🎄✨🎄🎊🎄✨
Shipped from Switzerland, it's really a $20.00 pen with $780.00 shipping and handling. 😄
😂
The quality of the initials on that cap does not look like what I’d expect for that price tag
It might not seem like the price is equal to the product, but the Creator hand makes them and Peter mentioned in the video the process of just soaking the lacquer and what not. then molding it and designing it takes a lot of time and effort including shipping and the price of tools and labor. art is expensive And a lot of people underestimate it. But I do understand this type of pen isn’t meant for everybody
@@alexdavis2564 I completely get all that, But, to me at least, hand made doesn’t automatically equal quality. The whole pen might be very well made and entirely worth the price it’s just that the engraving looks like someone who doesn’t do a lot of engraving did it.
This is completely reasonable, once I payed 500$ on a tooth pick. To each there own!
Omg was it made of gold?
Popcorn hulls run and hide when you pull out your $500 toothpick.
😂😂😂😂 👍
PAID, not payed.
@@fendranm2914 how about peeyd?
Peter, just a thought...assuming your new pen allows this, have you considered swapping out the nib unit for something finer? I can't really tell from the video, but 0.35mm (your rOtring fave) is finer than a Western EF (extra fine, at 0.5mm) and a hair less fine than a Japanese EF (0.3mm). This gets a little more complicated as your Swiss manufacturer may be supplying Western nibs, but is very much aligned with Japanese pen making and as a result might favor the finer Japanese nib widths. Of course, none of this matters if the pen doesn't strike you as becoming a useful extension to boosting your creativity.
Have a wonderful safe and joyful Christmas Season Peter, and many thanks for doing what you do.
Does it make anyone else insanely happy that Peter just exists somewhere in the world these days? You rock Petey.. also I think the pen costs more than my first car did 😆
It does! I enjoy our chaotic neutral drawing teacher ☕
Yep! I was getting used to 2 vids a week and then nothing for 10 days....I was honestly getting a little tiny bit concerned because, COVID.
Hey peter hopefully your having a great day. Wishing ya a merry christmas n happy new years. It would be neat to watch ya tackle Blender especially for being free n see what you can comeup with. :)
Thank you for posting this one despite your stated reluctance in the process.
It made me want to rethink how I'd want my fountain pen journey to go, especially with regards to getting customs.
For now, it's just bunkering down and making the most of all of them, samples and bottles included.
I'm actually pretty jealous that you found your preferred tool for creation. My only qualm is "will I like this...? Or will it be just a step in a journey that might never end?" with regards to getting something that an artist had found and honed for themselves.
Best with your curation of your collection as well! I find that actually creating sometime does ward off that purchasing itch. :)
"Wild Wild World of Pens" I was imagining you on a horse. Wild West theme, out on an adventure to find a pen. Not just any pen. The pen.
Before Peter mounts that steed he has to sniff it first.
Love the video, so glad I discovered your channel this year! One of the better things about 2020
Wish you a Merry Christmas.
Hearing you talking about your past creative work makes me think of my own. And I remembered something I always wanted to do.
There have been those monks in medieval times who wrote and copied books. They also added these large letters at the beginning of a chapter of a book. Colorful, large and sometimes full of creativity. Today one could choose a picture from the web and add it to your text, but back in time they created those for each chapter and book again.
I think this was also intended to be some kind of meditation to clear up your mind.
PS: The pen reminds me a bit of the whale probe from Star Trek IV movie.
Oh yeah I think those were called illuminated manuscripts, I love those things
@@peter_draws Yes that what I meant. Found a good example here:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Benedictine_Antiphonary_MET_DP158484.jpg
I think most of us click because 'yay peter new vid' irrespective of the title haha :P
What i found interesting is the influence the type of pen (directly or indirectly?) has on the way you draw! This looked very organic but also architectural in a miniature type of way?
It made me remember the time you used a HUGE orange posca on a bathroom wall and how absolutely different that turned out, would be cool to see you draw on a larger scale sometimes!
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"I think most of us click because 'yay peter new vid'
I certainly do!
*Voiceover* “In the next video, Peter marries his true love, the Rotring Isograph”
Next Video he finds out, how wounderfull writing with pens is and starts a new carrier. Viewers get sad.
Merry Christmas! Even if the 800 pen is not as thrilling to draw with all the time ..you can look on it as a piece of art in its self. You always sound excited about your fav tech pen and the red and black pen you tried out a while back you seemed to really like it. I've bought one pen so far a kaweco sport and I have a vintage Kohinoor rapidograp 3060 I discovered in a box of mixed artsupplies I bought at an estate sale..I loved it immediately! Hope you have a Happy New Year and have an abundance of inspirations!
the unearthing tangent is the main reason for subscribing. So great :D
I know I’m a bit late to this video but I suggest you look into 3D sculpting - Follygon is a cool channel that does step by step stuff, detailed streams with instructions, recreating characters and things of that nature. You could 3D sculpt and then make a background for your character in blender, or even create a 2d drawing and have the lighting of the blender background as the source of lighting. I’m not sure if you like anime but Violet Evergarden 3D modes their background with blender to create a special touch. I would really enjoy whatever kind of content you make so I’m wishing you a resurgence in your creativity well! :)
Quilting!! A new creative endeavor for you Peter!!😁
I had a question... But I forgot it.
Dangerous to your wallet? Get a Ridge Wallet (TM), they are made of metal.
I think if you want to draw with your fountain pens, you'd be better off collecting different nibs instead. And if there is one particular pen you like the feeling of, you could get someone to machine some adapter housings for that pen so you can use the nibs and/or feeds from other brands that normally wouldn't fit your favourite pen. Some people like to use Conid Bulkfillers in that way; as a "nib platform".
"a fool and his money"
Some dfinitions of a fool:
- A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
- One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.
- To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly: We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.
'tis money well spent I'd say.
Custom made w/ 18 carat gold nib, sounds like a reasonable purchase at $800, for someone that will use it appropriately.
I’ve been using rapidographs since the late 70s I completely understand 😍 and I love the jewel tips I recently discovered through your channel.
I'm a writer. I spent that much on a NOS vintage IBM Model F keyboard, but I use a $25 Lenovo keyboard as my daily driver, so I can relate. Whatever gets you though the night, it's alright.
Your thoughts and the way your brain works is fascinating to me...
Merry Christmas Peter 😊 Thanks for brightening up 2020 for me, a lot. Have fun, whatever you do xXx
I knew i won't win a MUJI from the giveaway so i ordered one myself, arrived 2 weeks ago, and i loved it so much that i'm starting a small collection of fountain pens ❤ So far i have the Mujii one, a Lamy Al-Star and a JinHao Shark :D Saving money for a Twisbi Eco.
Thank you Peter, you did this to me after 3 years of watching all your videos :D
Haha, great work on that collection so far!
Awesome video - this is amazing and fun to watch!
What brand shirt are you wearing? Looks great!
I know i am 3 years late, but I hope you still get this comment Peter. Sitting here after just buying my first rotring isograph, I relate to the happiness you feel when drawing with Rotring Isograph, and also to the saying a fool and his money is easily parted.
I love how humble and down to earth you are, some ppl hype up expensive product so much. And you saying you will always use your 35 dollar pen with more pleasure is such a breath of fresh air in the youtube world,. It makes me want to come back time and time again.
It might sound weird but maybe rug making or using a plotter could be awesome. Make little stickers with your own art, and sell those on your website. That could be pretty nice !
Pls don't apologise for staying down to earth,.
Merry Christmas.
I'm more into fountain pens and I use my isographs sparingly, but I also collect the weird oddball nibs that make huge lines, like look up monster nib on AliExpress it's wild, I got this big pad of 18x24 paper and I've been loving drawing big with magnum sharpies and other big sharpies, and once one of them starts drying out you can do a lot of cool shading with one that's dying which has been super fun
The new pen looks great. Thanks for all you do, and for the giveaways!
My first custom order fountain pen was a great experience. It was so good being able to choose exactly what you want. I’m into calligraphy and I got a gorgeous custom nib that’s highly flexible and I know there’s no others like it. Life’s short man, you gotta experience things that you value.
Pen buyer's remorse? I think it's a thing.
The more pens you have used I think it becomes clear that the cost does not equate to the chance of a pen having the x factor, that happy coincidental alignment of perfect feedback, line width, ink flow, hand feel... all the good things that are different for most people and may be different for you on different days.
A zero cost pen can be understood for what it is quite easily.
A pen that you know you have invested in, both in cash, emotional angst at the specification or cost, expectation, this is YOUR pen before it land in your hands. This is a pen you need to embrace a relationship with to understand fully. Give it time.
Yes, I have problems like this too and too many pens, you're right to say it won't stop you getting another, and another...
Great video.
Much love! :)
It sounds like you have reached a plateau, and now eager for the next step or big challenge.
And remember; The choices we make are the only things that truly belong to us, and the world can never take them away.
So, through our choices, we have purchased the moments of experience, that bring us a greater understanding of the mysteries of the world and ourselves.
But take your time to stand on this plateau, explore this pleasant moment of the here and now. Then take look back and enjoy the view of all you have achieved and overcome in your struggles to reach this point in your life and art. To understand where you have come from, is to understand what direction you are going.
The difference between knowledge and understanding? That is experience. And we gain that experience through our decisions.
And we make our decisions based on the knowledge we have gathered. Sometimes you don't understand "the next choice" until you are on that higher plateau, having gained understanding, looking back and saying, "Ah! Yes! That's what I was doing".
Having said all that; Your muse may have a totally different idea when it spirits you away to some foreign land of discovery and adventure.
Never paid THAT much for a pen but I think I would go for a Sailor King of Pen if I were in such a mood.
or a soveran m1000
i did, 600 euros with tax on ebonite edition.
i love the nib. majestic.
Peter, your calming voice makes me sleepy. The best voice ever
3D program tips: SketchUp has a free, basic version, but it is quite good at plotting out shapes, lines etc in some complexity if needed. I find this program quite intuitive personally so a good starter one to try out things in. I've also heard that Zbrush is great if you want to do more organic figures, but that one costs money. I've done some work in Blender and quite like it, it has a mix of standard shapes and organic ones, but I found it had a steep learning curve. Not sure with the new design of Blender that came out (was it last year?) , it might have made it easier to get a grip of it. Anyhow, best of luck trying out some 3D stuff, it is lots of fun for sure :)
The 11th commandment: You shall not cap an Urushi pen.
Pretty much as important as: You shall not kill
And much more important than: You shall not steal.
;)
Its nice knowing i wasn't alone in this problem, i did the exact same thing; i bought a super crazy expensive urushi pen and couldn't find a reason to dislike it, but i never really enjoyed it and you explained the same thing i was going through. I've currently just been using a different pen and loving it and am now trying to sell off my expensive pen
That pen purchase was outrageous!
I don't think that unearthing something has anything to do with what we call the planet. I've always found that we call our planet Earth, which is just another word for dirt. So unearthing is taking something out of the ground; which means the word is perfectly acceptable to be used on other planets.
Seems like a very elaborate advertisement for a Rotring Isograf =)
But anyway, hope you will find some way out of all the blues and enjoy things you will find on that way.
i know how you feel about this pen. i LOVE the twsbi eco so much and i got this brass kaweco sport for like $50 more because i was like "Oh thats a sick pen and i already really like the og kaweco sport" but whenever i use the brass sport i always wish i was just drawing with a $20 twsbi eco
My younger brother just learned an $800 lesson about calling me before making a deal with the local les schwabb when all he had was a flat tire..
...but on the bright side your brother made someones Christmas...
Commission out the butt
I love you brother. You’re such a good soul. I can tell. Forgiveness is supreme... have faith in the potential of gold within men and women.
“Soon as he said winter blues,” started rambling on about his “creative slump,” I started 🤣
Love when you do the wood burning. Love everything too obviously though lol
it made me so happy when he smelled the pen...he used to do it and i remember one pen smelled so bad, i forgot what it was
I thought for sure you were going to say it was a total waste of money because of the title of the video.
Happy holidays! 😁👍
About 2:50 yes you are right
You could make some funky furniture or something with the 3d pens for your petit roommate.
I have to call Neil deGrasse tyson on that "unmarsing" quandary
An Idea: Tape 2 ballpoints together with different inks
2020 was better with you, Peter :)
Don't feel bad about spending that money on your hobby. You're essentially a famous artist. Art is your life and career. Like I've spent thousands and thousands on music gear (as you said, pricey) and I don't even earn a dime. I dropped a grand CAD on an Epiphone Casino earlier this year. And I am the opposite of rich, and I don't feel bad at all. The only thing that makes me happy to spend money on is on my hobbies. There is no better thing to spend your money on IMO, it just sucks it didn't end up blowing you away. Like I love my new guitar. Maybe going forward just make sure you know exactly what you're getting first or there is a return policy which I guess you can't really return a used pen.
This last sketch has some Howl’s Moving Castle vibes and I’m loving it.🤓
Music gear.... Yeah very expensive. People see my music gear and think I'm rich. Nope. I just spent everything I had on it haha. Very expensive.. hobby. Way of life more like it. If I'm not spending money on music, wtf am I spending it on?
Have you ever played with the Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering? They’re such great bleep bloop machines. (Not sponsored, I promise.)
You have already found your ideal drawing pen, the Isograph. Well done. I'm still buying pens in search for one that will suit me as well as the Isograph suits you. Maybe a Muji...
Same problem here I always end up finding some new pen I never heard about and hoping it will be better than whatever ive tried so far and well often enough they do some specific thing well enough that im happy with my purchase but I still havent found my ideal sketching pen.
Wow! What a pen!
I listen to your videos while drawing, and the off tangent progression between 19:23 - 20:10 actually broke my concentration from laughing
Maybe it's retail therapy during this weird time? I'm scared to add up my art supply totals for the year, and I'm sure it's comfort shopping. You don't get to look forward to events like concerts or get-togethers so UPS and FedEx are the substitutes. Have a Merry Christmas and stay well. 🙋🎄🎁
Maybe you’re onto something :)
I have become more excited to see the amazon/ups/usps/FedEx than I ever was to hear the ice cream truck when I was a kid.