 Hey there, it's Sandy and it's Halloween. And instead of doing a normal video, I thought it would be fun to do an unboxing because I've gotten a lot of happy mail lately. One of these that I'll be opening is paper, this paper box, another is gonna be a pen, so stay tuned for that one. Let's get going. So first, the box of paper, which arrived unsolicited, I think it's because they found me either, you know, online or YouTube or someone who knows where they found me. But this guy named Ty sent me a box and this box was full of paper. I had to pack a paper in it. It's a subscription and I'm not a big user of subscriptions, but I thought I should probably share this because if some of you are, I think this is kind of a cool idea because you get a bunch of different papers. Of course, Ty wrote me a personal note, isn't that sweet? And there's all different kinds of stuff in here. And for me, I don't really need a whole ream when I'm buying colored cardstocks and stuff anymore because I don't make massive quantities of one thing. But there's all kinds of fun stuff. That was, I think, letterpress paper. Most of these are normal cardstock of different weights. There's some, I'm flicking them as I go through just to see how thick they are, how heavy they are. Some might be 110 or more and others are probably in the 80 pound to 100 pound, something like that. Lots of them have shimmer to them. So those of you who like the shimmer are gonna be happy campers with these. And like I said, for me, a sampling works great because this gives me a range of stuff I can play with. Now this one was really fascinating. It feels kind of like leather. It's not leather, but the surface of it feels like that. Almost foam, but nicer than foam, if that makes sense. Not sure how to describe that. It's kind of hard to do this with paper showing you this on a video. But some of the cardstocks are really good for what I could feel in the paper itself. I can feel the texture and the surface might be really good for colored pencils. Some of them might be good for doing some pen work. Others are gonna be great for die cutting like this pinkish kind of paper, whatever color that is, soft pink would probably be really good for colored pencils because it's got a very soft tooth to it. And I might try something with that. And by the way, as I'm flipping through this stuff, if there's something you wanna see me use, just give it a shout out in the comments. And I might post some stuff on socials with some of these things. I'll try out something. This green paper was heavier than the blue paper. I was trying to figure out if they were all the same weight because it looks like there's a whole bunch of regular cardstock in here. And of course, yellow. And the yellow is the nice heavy thick stuff. I love heavy cardstock. Makes me feel like I'm putting a little extra TLC in my project, but each one is just a little bit different. And here's where we get into some more interesting, totally different papers. This one is partially transparent, but it has a shiny side and not as shiny side. Very cool kind of stuff to use. Glitter for those who love the glitter. There's two sheets of it. Well, I guess there might be more in here. One is the blue and the other is this white. And I did rub it and test it to see if it falls off of my fingers and it did not, so that's good. On their website, they do say, oh, look, there's my face in the reflection. On the website, they do say they get these papers from all over the world, from Europe, from America, from Asia, all over the place. So there's cool holographic things. And this paper is very fascinating. It looks handmade, but I'm not really sure if it is, but it's kind of cool. It's got a shimmery side to it and a not as shimmery side, so you can use both of those. I don't know what you glue that stuff down with. Not really sure, but I'm sure someone can figure that out. And it looks like I'm in the section that has a lot more shimmery, shiny things. So some have shiny on one side, some shiny on the other. This one has an interesting texture and of course it's got yellow in it. So I am gonna be using that for something and partially transparent. And this one is another sheet of that same pink stuff. So I don't know if these are printed. If it's a paper manufacturing thing, I have no idea. I don't know how they make these things, but they're fun to use. We're getting down to the bottom here, one that is silver and very, very shiny. The holidays might be fun. And let's see this last sheet. Is going to be the holographic wacko one. Super shiny, it's not glittery, it's just reflective and has all those colors in it, which is kind of cool. So even though this is probably not something I'll subscribe to, cause I don't end up using that much like quantity of card stock. This is a lot of sheets for me to go through in a month. I'm wondering if I can buy one every couple months as I need paper, we'll see. But you can go to their website, use my link if you could because that does give me a percentage at no cost to you if you're interested in buying this kind of a subscription. The second treat in this video is fountain pens. Now I almost said no to Ellington pens when they offered to send me pens to try because I got burned by another company recently. This seems to be the opposite. Look at this gorgeous pen, gold accents with a body that has pin striping down it, really pretty. And this one is white with rose gold. I mean, these are gorgeous pens. The weight feels really nice. It just feels good in your hand. I'm gonna save my full endorsement or unendorsement for next week. I'm gonna do a more full review of the pens and talk about them more. The reason I'm telling you about them today is that if you sign up for their wait list before their site goes live, you'll get a discount code when it does go live. So you'll have an email with your code in it. You can wait till my review here on YouTube before you go buy one and find out if I actually still like it in a week because I'm gonna put it through its paces but you can get a discount if you decide you wanna buy one of these pens. They're supposed to be reasonably priced so a discount on top of that is gonna make them really good. All right, that is it for me today. Go out there and create something wonderful. I have another review coming up later this week so make sure you're subscribed if you haven't already as I have more happy mail to share.