thoughts on fancy pens

I guess everyone has their favorite pens. Some favor a certain make and model, and sometimes you just come across an ordinary ballpoint pen that happens to write especially nicely. I think after becoming addicted to cute notebooks, it was natural to want my pens to correspond.

Now it seems obvious that the pen i use for letter writing should be something very special. Writing in my own very secret diary is another time when the pen is important. And the pen in my purse -- the one i pull out all the time when i need to write in my planner, put to paper some plans for an exciting project, or jot down some inspired lyrics for a brand new Watch Out Red Hood song -- that should be a pen that turns heads. Or at least makes me smile.

My favorite pen for years was a gift from a friend, a cute souvenir from her hometown on Lake Biwa. It featured Hello Kitty in a fish costume. It wrote nicely, and on the end that i normally chew on, it had a Fish-Kitty charm that I could make spin around the pen in a very satisfying way. I'm pretty sure my Sunday School teacher hated it. It doesn't work anymore but I still have it.

Now I have a few favorites. This past fall i was overtaken by an especially strong desire to have only cute things, and I fixated on all my boring, chewed up pens. So i got on etsy and ordered some flower pens from banana tree art. They are lovely. I think these are not too difficult to make yourself.

Then for Christmas, I got two special pens from two special sisters: a quill pen, which is kind of hard to write with but great fun; and a ballpoint pen that writes with lilac-scented ink. I love it.

I also have a good supply of Sakura gel pens, mostly in pink. They're a good stand-by, except for check-writing.

My friend Hannah wrapped an ordinary pen in ribbon and thus it became cute and interesting. I thought yarn would be neat but I haven't figured out how it'd work. I wonder how else we can take ordinary pens and make them worthy of THE COOKIES CLUB?