My dad would have been turning 92 this year. I miss him so much. He was a pencil guy. He loved mechanical pencils and I have them now. He was also a bit of an artist. So talented. Thank you for making something so simple, like a pencil feel really special.

Thanks for another lovely video. I am with you on the classic pencil. What a beautiful idea to restore the lamps. So good to see you handcrafting the match holders. Working with the hands is such a wonderful thing 💕

When I was a kid I used to collect all my tiny pencils. I had so many I created a 'mini pencil city' which is exactly what it sounds like, an entire tiny town in which all the citizens were tiny pencils. I had a grocery store for them, a school, a clothing store, a wilderness area....you are not alone in this impulse to keep them 😅

We‘re very similar in how we appreciate things. It all comes down to mindfulness imho. Being in the moment and enjoying and appreciating every aspect of whatever you are doing.

I love Blackwing pencils. They (the black ones) are a staple of musicians for marking up sheet music. Nice soft and dark lead that is easy to erase.

I can see the feel and joy of wood pencils...I like really dark lead though and that is typically hard to find while also being firm..so I haven't really dabbled in pencils much.

Thank you for bringing us along on your walk. It's so lovely to see green plants go past you as you're walking. I currently have 1.5 metres of snow on my lawn, and no sign of green at all.

Wish you can do more walks Alicia!!! Love them! Glad that you are loving the experience of just using traditional pencils! Gosh you are so talented! Love the matchsticks pouch!!!

your honest spirit is inspiring.

I recently incorporated pencils into my daily journaling routines and I am liking it a lot. I still primarily use fountain pens but I am finding that there are portions of my daily writing that can benefit from using a pencil, such as drawing diagrams and doodles. It's added a whole new layer of enjoyment and expression. So yes, pencils are awesome.

I enjoy the walks. It gives me a cozy vibe. @AdventureDenali your are a great director, great camera positioning/framing (this is a comment in general about all vids).

You sound really happy with the Blackwings, so continue being happy. On the other hand, the Kaweco Sketch Up Clutch Lead Holder (in Brass) could be tempting. It would match the Brass Sport fountain pen. ;-)

I started my journaling with pencils only. I enjoy the Musgrave Tenn Reds, Harvest Pro, and Bkackwing. I have the 602 and the naturals. The natural are my favs too. The stub jar is and will be a treasure as time goes by. And no the time it takes to sharpen the pencil is NOT a waste of time. I enjoy my fountain pen but the wood and graphite helps inspire as I write. I enjoy your videos very much.

As a Tennessean it makes me happy to see Musgrave pencils in your collection 😮 their Cub pencils remind me of early elementary school

Yes, I get it. There is something about a pencil. The feel, the smell, the act of sharpening. It is a thing. Love the vid. Thanks!

I have the same sharpener. ✨️ I love pencils, too, and have an unintentional collection of them. 😍 ✏️ I can't stop buying new beautiful ones. Your tool/pencil/pen case is absolutely adorable. 🤩

You can also yank off the metal bit of the Blackwing with some pliers and use a normal extender if you don’t wanna splash out for another Blackwing extender

Love love the matchsticks holders, very clever design and leather work!

As someone who lives in the PNW, I have to say the "break in the rain" comments really made me smile! I think we become so immune to it here, but I wonder if I would change if I lived in the desert. Also, I wish you would make a video about pencils: as someone who historically hasn't liked pencils (probably stemming from a distaste for primary school authoritarianism and exhaustive standardized testing), I feel like I'd like to give pencils a second chance and I think you'd do a great job of reviewing them. Edit: I just realized you made a pencil video and I'm just super late and trying to catch up on your videos because I've been busy... oops!

A bouquet of sharpened pencils!!!!❤❤ Can you do a home tour? I love your aesthetic!!!!

I really like Musgrave Tennessee Red and Harvest Proessional pencils. Since you are in a pencil kick, check out the, portuguese made, "Viarco" pencils; in special, the vintage collection. Thanks for the video.

Your vermilion flycatcher pin is cute. Have you ever played the board game Wingspan? It’s a modern board game in which players compete to attract the most impressive collection of birds to their fictional preserve. It’s based on a deck of cards painted with realistic watercolors of North American bird species, along with facts about each one. Not only is the art beautiful, but the gameplay is an intelligent balance of luck and strategy, not long and tedious, and not overly simple or complicated.

It was nice to have a glimpse into your life in the desert. I live in Maryland and rainy days are something we have alot of. Those Tennessee Reds smell wonderful! I have the round version and use them for sketching. However the pencil I reach for the most, for writing or sketching, is the round Ooly Ninja Black Wood pencil (amazon). It's slim and has slight feedback and sharpens to a "killer" point:) The box of 12 says "super trained & stealthy" and I agree. There's also a fun poem on the back of the box. Thanks for sharing your pencil crush!

Enjoying the fussiness,,, I can relate. 👍

Absolutely, I have a fistful of pencils that cramp my hand. But I hang on to them anyway. We should start a yellow pencil society.

I really prefer regular pencils to mechanical pencils - there's something in the difference of the lead that totally changes the writing experience for me.

I loved CW Pencil enterprise (RIP) and I have a Futura pencil from them that has lived in my apron at work since before the pandemic. Now it’s like one of your little pencil nubbins, and some of the Gen Z kids at the store noticed it one day when I pulled it out to use it and told me that when they were in middle school, it was the number 1 coolest thing to have a pencil nubbin. So. We’re cool, Alicia! Finally, confirmation.

Although I prefer the convenience of a mechanical pencil, there is something beautiful about the smell of pencils and pencil shavings in particular. Maybe it is evocative of childhood in a Proustian way? Do pencils, being made of wood, have more of a connection to the earth? I have always preferred Derwent or Faber Castell pencils and a like a soft led.

The lanterns are beautiful!

Loved seeing your walk - coming from England we are used to that weather all the time, I think we all dream of more sunshine! Also it’s really interesting to see a lot of cars in the US don’t have number plates / licence plates on the front? That’s so strange as over here we have to have them on the front and back! I always look forward to your vlog style videos, so thank you for this 😊

🫣 I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only person who smells their pencils 😂

I like John Steinbeck’s pencil routine.

I am also a lover of wooden pencils. Lately my favourite has been Apsara from India. They come with a surprisingly wonderful long point sharpener. ✏️

One would think that Blackwing would have put an eraser thing on the end of the pencil extender. They go to all the trouble they do with their replaceable erasers and then just forget to put one on the end of the extender that steals the eraser out of the pencil. The mind boggles at the oversight.

YEEEES I just bought some Tennessee Reds too! I love them! And SO much more affordable than blackwings! (I'm from TN originally tho, so I'm biased. We've got good stuff. 😁 )

writing can be meditative

I love the smell of pencils. I bet yours smells great! Blessings

You’re a neat person 😊👍🏻

I've been on a bit of a (mechanical) pencil kick myself lately. I used to journal exclusively in mechanical pencil years ago, but had my own stationery enlightenment and ended at fountain pens. But I have a few solid mechanical pencils now that I've been really enjoying.

Those leather match pouches. Swoon.

listening to you talk about pencils makes me miss CW Pencil Enterprise 💘 I still treasure (and use an extender 😂) for all my pencils from there.

Very cool 😊

Have you tried the derwent pencil extenders? They hold the pencil deep and they are lightweight

Please make a video on pencils. I'm thinking of getting the Faber Castell Perfect Pencil 9000 setup with the extender/ sharpener/cap. I love 4B.

Have you considered fiddling about with vintage mechanical pencils? Like the ones that came in matching sets with fountain pens. I just ordered a matching set myself, because they looked stunning, and I'm interested to see what the writing experience will be like when I get it.

I need cool friends who restore lanterns and do leather work in their free time

Graphite smearing on my hand/paper always frustrated me I'm not sure if I could ever go back to pencil 😅

I've been watching her videos for so long, even binge watched a couple times, and i just realized I'm not subscribed? I feel like a thief

Thanks very much for that nice Video. While you call two days of rain "Winter" It has just snowed here yesterday and today, and is likely to continue at least until Monday... Better some rainy days than to shiver in the cold, I think. Not to speak from driving on snowy roads in heavy traffic... I guess I'd like to live in "the desert", where it is predominantly warm to even hot. Btw.: Did you consider to get a tool to hold your Leather when sewing it together, instead doing it with your knees? My father used to work with leather in a Similar way professionnally, and he had a kind of spring loaded wooden clamp to do such jobs... don't know the name of it. To protect the leather in it, he had made some Protectors fitting onto the Wood, out of Leather, of course. Also, I think you should take care to protect your Fingers when sewing leather by hand. You could even make some sort of protective Sleeve out of a small peace of left over leather by yourself, if you don't want to spend money on Personal Protective Equipment. Take good care of yourself.

Awesome video. I didn’t know they had a pencil extender. Just out of curiosity do you still use your Galen leather case?

The channel Wood & Graphite does the same thing with the remaining pencil stubs. Have you seen his video called The Stub Jar ?

What pencil sharpener do you use?

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I don't mind pencils at all (though I'm not quite as attached to them as you are :) ), but the residue left behind...that smoodge left on the paper after you erased a bit at the end of your video...that distresses me a bit. It's terrible to admit, but I have been known to throw ALMOST pristine pages away if there was a mistake that I couldn't completely eradicate, whether they were made by pen or pencil. I've gotten better in my old age...but messy pages do still have an impact.

I love pencils, but that extender is one of the main reason why I don't use Blackwing. And I think they're just too expensive, especially when I can go through several pencils per day. I think the Tombow pencils are just as good, maybe better, and I prefer just about any extender over the Blackwing. For that matter, I think all the professional level art pencils I have, Tombow, Faber-Castell, Staedtler, General's, etc., are just as good. Even several sets of Chinese art pencils people insist on buying me for every occasion are just as good. I never use the eraser on a pencil, anyway, so I definitely don't need the kind on a Blackwing. Too, I have so many sets of art pencils, at least eighteen brands, just about every set on the market, I think, that buying Blackwing pencils would just be the largest for of redundancy, even if they were cheaper and didn't have that eraser. I also have dozens and dozens and dozens of mechanical pencils with up to five lead sizes in ever model, and 4H to 4B lead in every lead size, and lead holders with 6B and 8B. It's ridiculous.

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