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ok, i've made a system to rotate through my decks. i love 'em, i wanna use 'em. i keep my very faves out on the shelf (as opposed to the boxes in the wardrobe), separated into RWS and “other” – just to have the categories roughly equal in number. i started with pips vs “other” but that was a bit confusing/chaotic. is thoth pips or other? petersen is not pips but reads like pips? etc...

anyway, regardless of what the categories are – i have one of each in use, out on the desk. and once in a while, when i start getting bored, maybe once a week, i'll switch one of them out to a different one from their pile, alternating categories. i don't have to do it in any particular order, but i can't repeat a deck until i've gone through both the piles once. let's see how it goes! i like that there's change, but not too fast and not all at once. and each change gives me a new combination to play with.

this is inspiring me to try something similar with all the ink samples i have. i got a dip pen to easily use them up, but then got frustrated with having to transfer them from their deep vials to something more manageable. it might still be frustrating but what if: have a bit of a rainbow selection out and use two colors per journal page. like green and blue, but then blue and violet. and on the next spread violet and pink, and maybe pink and red? and then red and orange, next to orange and yellow? the Color Excitement might override the fiddly-ness.

it could also go as contrast-y or as blend-y as i feel like at the time. the ink palette i use has room for four colors, theoretically i could rinse them out as often as every 3 days, but if i wanted an even more gradual change i could repeat the color combo from the right hand page of spread one on the left hand page of spread two etc. then the ink change is roughly once a week. let's go!