Pen Review: Papermate Gel 0.7mm black and colored ink and Pilot Acroball Pure White 0.7mm black ink

Another day and another review. Today I am bringing you a review on something that most people wouldn't really think of reviewing, but for me I am OBSESSED with pens. I collect a couple of them from time to time depending on how they write. So today I will give you a review on the Papermate Gel 0.7mm fine point in black and colored ink (green, orange, and blue *my sister took the red one*) and the Pilot Acroball Pure White 0.7 mm fine point.

I am usually not a fan of fine point pens because I don't like the way my handwriting looks when I write with them. For me the Papermate Gel 0.7mm works really well. The black ink is very clear but it lacks the deep black color I usually like to see when I am writing. For the colored inks the orange and blue inks were very faint and didn't write very well. The green was a little better to write with but just like the black ink it lacked the pigment that most medium or thick point pens give. As for the Pilot Acroball Pure White 0.7mm, I was not happy with this pen at all. You can see in my sample of my handwriting the ink gives out as you write leaving letters unfinished. The way the pen wrote was not very smooth. These pens are really made for people who write small or have very straight penmanship. 

(From left to right) Papermate Gel 0.7mm Orange, Papermate Gel 0.7mm Black, Pilot Acroball Pure White 0.7mm, Papermate Gel 0.7mm Blue, and Papermate 0.7mm Green

Just a sample of my handwriting with each pen

Final Thoughts: Keep: Papermate Gel 0.7mm in black ink 

                               Return: Pilot Acroball Pure White 0.7mm.

Food Review: Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

Welcome back to the Blogging 5itches, it is me Erin aka The First. Today I bring you one of my first recipe reviews from Pinterest. We first tasted these mushrooms during a dinner held by my sister Erna's friend Jenna in memory of my nephew Ethan Niall who passed away one February 8th, 2014 from a rare disease called HLH or Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. He was only 3 weeks old when he passed away and not a day goes by that our family doesn't miss him.

Our family couldn't get enough of these mushrooms so we all went on Pinterest to look for the recipe and we were lucky enough to find one (actually it was The Queen B who actually found it) Now I am serving it for our dinner. It looks the same as the ones we had at the party and here's to hoping it tastes the same.

This recipe was found on: 

http://niftymom.com/2014/01/sausage-cream-cheese-stuffed-mushrooms/

Before going into the oven

After coming out the oven

Bon Appétit

The First

Not only is this the first blog post of this blog, but it is written by me...The First (Bitch)

Welcome to what the five of us cousins like to call our little place in the internet where we can talk about anything, from our daily lives, doing arts and crafts, trying out new recipes, and everything in between.

Let me introduce myself: My name is Erin, I am The First...bitch that is. My name is in reference to the Buffy the Vampire Series where "The First" was the first vampire and since I am the oldest out of the 5 of us I have been given the title of being "The First Bitch". For me I really like to try new recipes, try any kind of arts and crafts, I love to watch movies and also love following up on social media. I am also a big blog lover. I have had a couple of blogs over the years that I have either closed or forgotten about. I am very simple when it comes to things I like. As long as I have my family and friends then I am pretty happy.

This is going to be a fun adventure for the 5 of us to take together since we are always thinking of fun things to do as a group. We all bring different flavors to our group and this blog will be just that. We have lots of different topics we want to share with others out there and we hope we can draw a wide range of people from all around the world.

Some topics we will cover are:

• Monday Movie Nights: Where we will each review a movie whether its together as a group or individually.
• Various hashtag days such as #mancrushmondays, #transformationtuesdays, #womancrushwednesday, #throwbackthursdays 
• Friday Favorites: Where we will talk about anything and everything that we enjoyed through out the week from various social media networks.  

That is just a taste of what our blog will share with you all. We hope that you will take the time to get to know us and watch our journey into making this a blog for everyone.

Thank you and enjoy your stay!!