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Where pens and cats overlapped

 Originally posted at Instagram. Click on a photo to see it enlarged.






Lisa makes quality control and protects my set of Pilot Iroshizuku inks on March 16, 2019. Lisa is blind which doesn't hinder her to be found on all tables and chairs. 

On July 3, 2019, she inspected an incoming package from La Couronne du Comte.


What did she know that she would have soon some helpers to do that work.

The new ones helped me choosing a new pen, inspecting every pen on a huge list: October 4, 2019.


Please try and identify the non-pen artifact in the picture. I know it is difficult. November 23, 2020


Brothers of my cats (same mother) - special editions 2019, 2020 and 2021 - unfortunately all of them have died due to illness or car accidents. In memoriam.


Tom and Lisa show interest in a cloth from Bokumondoh. 


I don't call myself a collector - I am a hoarder. Not only do I hoard pens, but also inks and papers and - cats.

Felix (18 years in 2024), Cherie (5), Lisa (6) and Tom (5) in 2022 und 2024 (below9. 


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