Totally exhausted

We have puppies.  Saturday we went for a long drive to a shelter to adopt two puppies. We intended to get only one...but we stayed open to the idea of two. It's a good thing because both of these pups are a perfect fit for us and for each other.  My goodness this is work! I had forgotten how much work a puppy can be and now we have two.

We had our last dog for 14 years and he passed away almost two years ago so it has been 16 years since I've had to train a puppy.

These two are going to be a handful. We're going to have quite a summer this year.  :)

More white pen playing...

I saw a stamp on a blog not too long ago of a crazy looking girl in crazy looking clothes. It was by Daniel Torrente and the stamp is called Prom Queen. I wish I could remember where I saw it but I sat and sketched it across almost the whole page of my journal because I really liked the crazy hair. I moved her hands and put more weird curlies on her dress but the credit for the original girl goes to Daniel Torrente.

I also discovered Joanne Fink and her wonderful Zenspiration dangles. And now that I've found a nice white ink pen I'm going to do more doodling on black backgrounds.

Eureka!

I have found it!  Actually, more than one 'it'. I've been looking hard for a good white ink pen and after several frustrating purchases I think I've found a couple. One is good for doing fine work like zentangle and other fine doodles and the other is good for thicker lines for writing.

I guess that takes my total spending for this journal up to about $15 since I started it in January.  Not bad.

Naturally I went a little nuts using the white pens on the dark green background. But it was fun.

The main thing I was trying to get was a white pen that would write on a background of acrylic paint.

The Pentel Sunburst white gel pen works very well, lays down a fine line, but you have to give it an easy touch. Just let it glide over the surface without pressing too hard and it will lay down a nice line of ink.

The Sakura gel pen is a thicker line, goes on milky-clear and dries white. It takes a few minutes to dry completely so this isn't a 'journal-on-the-go' pen. It has a tendency to puddle so don't let your pen tip linger for too long in one spot.

I tried another more expensive major maker of gel pen that was a total disaster. It's named on the layout and if you really want to read about it you'll find it if you look for it. I have nothing nice to say about it so I won't say anything with the brand name attached. I have no doubt that the ink inside the pen might be  nice ink because some of the ink layed down on the page where I experimented. But it seemed almost as if the ink was too thick to pass the roller ball in the tip. It just wouldn't lay the ink down. And since it was a two pack of pens I tried the second one just in case it was just a defective pen but the second one did the same thing. It would lay down about 1/4 inch of a line and then quit. I had to beat on the tip on another sheet of paper to get the ink going again and then it would quit again.  Too much frustration to keep working with it so I gave up and pitched them into the garbage can.

So there is my assessment of white ink pens. And some Zentangly doodles.