I’m excited to release my newest line, The Rise Reclaimed! Ballpoints, rollerballs, and fountain pens using prop wood recovered from the set of The Dark Knight Rises. This is a limited edition series. Each pen includes a Certificate of Authenticity with the fountain pen having an 8 page booklet.

Lathe Chat: Cap & Body alignment on kitless fountain pen. youtu.be/-CEhNhCGGqE

Hit the level of tired where I just sat on the shower floor to clean off. 16 hours on 4 hours of sleep after 13 hours of work yesterday? I cannot anymore today. I need someone to take care of me, but that's ny job. 😂 Glad I have meals prepped.

Progress on the Oleander Art Fountain Pens: youtu.be/GjaGw84OFmc

Happily back on a whole bunch of my shit after months of dark night the soul work. Eyeing Uranus getting ready to hit my 12th house like a fully fledged menace.

The geek in me loves, LOVES seeing process pics from people whose work I adore. Lookit cool things being made!

Cargo pants have LOTS of pockets. Cargo pants with only one extra pocket on the leg are not cargo pants. Those are carry-on pants, at best.

Took a break from the workshop and lathe to make food. Saffron & anchovy spaghetti, using duck eggs, garlic, butter, olive oil, and pasta water, topped with some shredded Parmigiano Reggiano. First run at using saffron threads, and it's a subtle flavor. I like it though.

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Please clap, your resident menace is making *visible progress* this week. Got to break out my 14mm drill bit for this design, too. Look, sometimes you just need... more diameter... to get the job done.

Have art, current work in progress, has months left to go. Very big.

JetPens is great for inexpensive pens! Smrutipens.com and @abigailmarkov.com are great for beautiful handmade or fancier pens!

Took four days, multiple requests, and several phone calls, but I finally got my packages picked up.

Duck eggs with shredded carrot and parmesian, cooked in the butter-and-coconut-amino-grease leftover from cooking sirloin steak in the cast iron pan. "Why do you eat so many duck eggs? You bougie or something?" No, we just have, like, 12 ducks, and I don't suck at cooking.

Emergency vet visit. Currently very not good. Trying to stay calm for both our old puppy, my Youngest kiddo, and not think about how we're covering the vet bill and expenses this month. Fingers crossed for the old man, y'all. They have no idea what's wrong right now.

I cannot make today feel any better for Today Me, but I can make tomorrow suck less for Future Me.

Ceasar dressing made with whole duck eggs, good parmesian, extra anchovies, decent olive oil, and very fresh garlic is *delicious.*

Me and my Fifth Horseman Boots. Look, it's been A Day after A Week (last week), and this week is going to be breakneck pace. Hair was holding on by one brave Blackwing Pencil.

This Is Just To Say I have done my taxes that were in my inbox and which I was procrastinating for last minute Forgive me they really suck so much I'm so cold

Making a sucky day a little better.

Overton xkcd.com/3230/

If you are utterly bored here's my Tiktok of just pen and chicken videos: www.tiktok.com/@abigail.mar...

Finally stopped turning long enough to record Oleander polished in a Bebe Fountain Pen. Glad I cast extra of this material. youtu.be/2N2CmzR8Xks

Think about the Boots, Self, think about the boots. Think about your Warlord riding boots, your Everything is in Aries Boots. Not the posturing, compensating men on the internet in your comments who couldn't keep up with you if they tried. (And they won't.)

Holy mother of Pete and Bob, I am tired today.

They were on clearance at a thrift marketplace and I loved them AND I already have outfits (plural) planned for both.

Nails for major art opening tonight - best friend's solo show.

Happy Asshole Coming Out Day to those who celebrate.

Final colorway for Rebirth & Rebellion Collection just came out of the molds. Left to right, currently: Zest Guerilla Whimsy Blue Mallee Blue Delphinium Underground Invictus Rosarium Obscura Oleander What's your favorite currently?

I have not technically taken the day off, but I am not working nearly as hard or as much as I could be, so it kinda feels like it?

"Sometimes The Mushrooms Don't Kill Us: The story of life on planet Earth."

Finished the cap repair. What was an early model Bebe Fountain Pen with broken cap is now a one-of-one Art Pen. Material is Citrus Grove, metal is electroformed copper. The repair is an integral, structural, part of the cap repair. It circles the entire cap, to reinforce.

"Protests are performative!" Yes. They are. THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT. TO DEMONSTRABLY SHOW THE FUCK UP, PUT ON A FUCKING SPECTACLE, AND MAKE IT VISIBLY, UNDENIABLY CLEAR WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKING OUT ABOUT. Preferably as annoyingly as possible because you WANT to draw attention. In numbers.

Having a little bit of a hard time breathing y'all.

IT'S FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE. (it is, I'm just having feelings and I don't want to have feelings.)

15 Fidget Pens in Oleander, done. On to the Bebe Fountain Pens.

I get all nerd-excited whenever I see someone quote Farscape now (even if I haven't finished it), all because of @froonium.bsky.social . Little joys in life for the win.

Is that an in house cast. IS THAT AN IN HOUSE CAST. ... THEY ALL ARE.

So. Close. Best shape best handle. Best weight. 1 2/3 cups short. sigh. 🧶

The schadenfreude of witnessing someone who dismissed you discovering first hand just how difficult what you do actually is. :chef's kiss: Back to doing that looks-so-easy work for me.

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Might be getting a slow start today.

There are few delights like watching a skilled craftsperson work. Check that sparkle at the end! 😍

Time lapse of turning a Fidget Pen in Oleander. youtube.com/shorts/42BPp...

First turn of Oleander.

Look if you can’t handle me at my working when I should be cleaning then you don’t deserve me at my cleaning when I should be working

Trying to eat enough (and enough protein) takes entirely too much* thinking and effort. *any at all

I'm ride or die for my people, but I'm more like the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse than a daily chit chat person. It's gonna get intense and possibly existential, and you don't summon me unless you're ready for that.