Worth the Investment
I am SO pleased. Ok. Short comments first: do not hang this on Command Hooks. Use a nail, as the instructions tell you to. My hook failed and the whole beautiful, brand new calendar hit the floor from 4 feet up. It was FINE. The numbers didn't ever come off. They just slid. The magnets are so strong that our little "feed the snake" reminder (in the green circle) sticks quite securely to the topside of the number magnets. That reminder is our own DIY: 1 inch of card stock with a paperclip taped to the back!<br /><br />I was VERY skeptical about Ms Celeste's claims about her own brand of markers, but the price was right to get them from her directly. The colored chalk markers haven't arrived yet (FedEx's fault), but I am blown away by her white marker. On this layout I used both the double-tipped Circle & Square white liquid chalk marker, as well as a gift-with-purchase white chalk marker that I had laying around. O.M.G.<br /><br />In the red and violet circles you can see the 2 inks side by side. The CAS marker is a brilliant, very opaque, true white. These 2 areas were both drawn with the bullet nib of the CAS marker, and I was able to finesse a remarkably fine line with it. Equally as fine as the line produced by the tiny GWP marker, whose "fine point" felt nib was already getting soft at its first use. The GWP marker's translucent white-ish ink does make a nice grey to give a little depth to doodles like the one in the violet circle, but with the funky lighting in our home, the labels written with the GWP marker are largely illegible.<br /><br />Everything in the orange circle was written with the chisel nib of the CAS marker. Mostly this was the fine tip of the chisel, but the broadside was used in the yellow circle. Swapping between chisel and bullet nibs was simplicity and the ink washed off my fingers with 10 seconds of low effort. Cleaning up the ink when wet or only partially set (less than a minute) was comically easy. I absolutely am going to do a follow up review of the neon markers, along with comments on the clean up of set inks, though I won't have any cheap-o coolored chalk markers or neon Expos on hand for 1-1 comparison. Sorry.<br /><br />@CircleandSquare.decor
Rating: 5 stars