Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Pilot Frixion Color-Pencil-Like Gel Pens

So, my absence is partially explained by this post! We are moving in a month and a half to a town across the state. It is a big scary move where I have to give up an 8.5 year job and friends in exchange for my husband to be an engineer. This is where the silver lining is, his salary will continue to finance my pen habit. So the move is bittersweet.

We have been out of town for several days searching for a place to live. Because I am an organized person, I wanted this move to be organized. Therefore, I present my moving book.

I took a junk journal that had been lying around. I have two more that are identical, it was part of some box set I just had to have for Christmas a few years ago. There are no markings on the book so I don't even know/remember what brand it is. The cover got icky on this one, so I thought I would use it for our moving book. The index cards are there just to show you how I made the tabs along the side. These are plain Mead bookmark index cards bought at office max. They have muted yellow, green, blue and red edges and the back is a solid color. I also have used these to take notes on and have taped them directly into the notebook.

The notebook paper is thin. You can see that I wrote with a pen on the previous side and it shows through easily. I know I will never use these as a journal now because of the paper, but I will keep them around for a random project or two.

The pens are the new Color-Pencil-Like Frixions. They are erasable and erase much much better than the original set of blue/black/red I bought last fall. I think this type wins hands down compared to the non color pencil type.

The yellow is light. I think the pictures make it look darker than it really is. With both colors you can see that the darker colors are only because I went over the lines several times. Both erase well. Much better than I expected them too. I also have this pen in gray and I like it just as much as these two.




As a random side note, below is my most recent jetpens.com order. Some things I ordered for others, because we often group the orders together but 11 of these puppies are mine:

Products
1 x Pilot FriXion Color-Pencil-Like Erasable Gel Ink Pen - 0.7 mm - Ultramarine $1.95
1 x Pilot FriXion Color-Pencil-Like Erasable Gel Ink Pen - 0.7 mm - Purple $1.95
2 x Zebra Sarasa Gel Ink Pen - 0.4 mm - Green Black $3.00
1 x Sura John & Mary Pencil Pouch - Large - Green on Black $3.50
1 x Platinum Preppy Ink Tip Refillable Sign Marker - Purple $2.25
1 x Pilot FriXion Color-Pencil-Like Erasable Gel Ink Pen - 0.7 mm - Yellow Ocher $1.95
1 x Platinum Preppy Fountain Pen - Blue Black Ink $3.00
1 x Platinum Preppy Marker & Fountain Pen Refill Cartridge - Purple Ink - Set of 2 $1.50
1 x Pelikan P460M Pelikano Fountain Pen - Medium Nib - Red Body $18.40
1 x Zebra Sarasa Gel Ink Pen - 0.4 mm - Olive Green $1.50
1 x Zebra Sarasa Gel Ink Pen - 0.4 mm - Red Black $1.50
1 x Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto Multi Pen Ink Cartridge - 0.4 mm - Cherry Pink $2.00
1 x Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto Multi Pen Ink Cartridge - 0.4 mm - Green $2.00
1 x Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto Multi Pen Ink Cartridge - 0.5 mm - Aqua Blue $2.00
1 x Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto 3 Color Multi Pen - Pen Body - Black $2.25
1 x Pentel Hybrid Technica Gel Ink Pen - 0.3 mm - Blue $2.25
1 x Pilot Color Pen - 0.5 mm - Green $1.20

3 comments:

  1. Ah, nice order and thanks for the review. Good luck with the impending move. I wish I could post my JetPens orders, but then the wife would have absolute proof I was insane in my obsession, so I just shred the invoices when they get here.

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  2. Do you like those index cards? I love using mine but I wish that the notch were a little deeper because they don't stay on the page very well. Nr

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  3. Very nice review...and thanks for the reminder that I want to pick up some more stuff from JetPens...again. :)

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