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Appreciation post: My bullet journal took a swim in a coffee shop
I was at the Muddy Cup in Portland, trying to sketch a new weekly layout, when my entire mug of coffee tipped over. It went right across the open pages of my Leuchtturm1917. I grabbed a stack of napkins fast and blotted it, but the ink was already running. I let it dry overnight, then the next day I just went over the smeared lines with a thicker pen and turned the coffee stain into a watercolor-style background for that week's header. Has anyone else had to save a page after a major spill? What did you do?
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beth_ward804mo ago
Kept going with my own save after a similar disaster. My Moleskine took a full splash of orange juice last summer at a farmer's market. I let it dry in the sun for a day, and the pages got all wavy and stiff, like cardboard left out in the rain. I ended up pressing it flat under my heavy textbooks for two nights, then used a light wash of watercolor over the stain to blend it all together. Now that page actually looks kind of cool, like a weird tie-dye effect. Sometimes the mistakes make the best art, you know?
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ryan_sanchez5mo ago
Okay, but you blotted it with napkins and it still worked? My Leuchtturm paper buckles if I look at it wrong. I had a much smaller water spill once and the page turned into a crinkled mess, totally unusable. I'm honestly amazed you could still write on it after a full mug. That paper must have been some kind of magic batch.
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barbaraschmidt5mo ago
Maybe you got a bad batch? My Leuchtturm has handled coffee drips fine, just some light ghosting. What ink were you using when yours crinkled up?
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