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Best post ever and yes, yes I did immediately grab a Blackwing and a guinea pig to check 😆

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😆 I'm so glad the maths held true!!

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I love that you have both. My kinda gal

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it's the only way to live!

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Haha! I love this so much! My current fave pencil is about 1/2 a quokka long.

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I had to google a quokka - how amazing are they!!??!! That is an extra sweet unit of measurement! 🥰

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They're so adorable!!! One of our most-loved animals in Australia <3

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This has made me so happy I'm almost crying.

Yes, it is an extreme reaction.

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It's made me so very happy to hear that! 🥹 🥰

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Who knew pencils and animals would have that effect on me?

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hahaha!!

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I love that Guinea pig pencil so much! 😍😍😍

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Haha! Thank you so much Jane! 🥰

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my favourite colours are about a mouse long! I can hardly find them in the box, but they're still there...

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The favourite ones always wear down so quickly! I love the idea of a load of mouse pencils nestled together in a box! 🐭 🐭 🐭

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Me too! I love little mice!

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I have a lot of guinea pig pencils because I don't really draw with them all that much and keep compulsively buying them at the art shop! 😆 But I do love a nice snail-length Neocolor.

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Yes! The lengths of Neocolours!! I have those ranging from an elephant's toenail down to a mouse's foot! 😆

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I want to go to the Derwent Pencil Museum, my dream one day! Love your illustrations of the pencils. My best pencil is currently 2 centipedes long, I need to restock! x

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It’s such a fun museum! 2 centipedes is definitely getting very small! Also a fabulous unit of measurement!

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Hmm I've a few at a guinea pigs leg, and one that I love which is a half a pig that makes me sad (holbein) 😅🤧

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A Guinea Pig’s leg!! 🤣 Love that as a measurement!!

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Such a fun post! Mine is 5 ants and running out!

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Oh no! Just 5 ants! It’s always a bit of a worry when they’re running out because by then you love that pencil so much!

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My current pencil is approaching the ant size (at length at least) because I've been using it a lot!

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That sounds like a very hard working pencil! And artist!

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The most incredible post ever Nanette and I've missed it 😂 did I tell you my nickname is snail? 🙈 so my measurement must be snails of course, my favourite one got about 2 adult snails + 1 baby snail. The comments are also really fun to read :)

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Haha! There must be a great story behind your nickname! I love that you included adult and baby snails in your measuring, I can visualise that snail family! 🐌 🐌 🐌

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I adore this :')

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Thank you! And I adore your Substack, I've just subscribed, I LOVE it! 🥰

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My life’s mission is now to see a four elephant long pencil 🙌

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You just have to pop to the City Museum in St Louis, Missouri!! 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘

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Who knows....one day I’ll make it across the Atlantic! 🌊

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This is such a fun, charming, heart lifting episode of your substack.

You are SO good at these!

Aaaand a really lovely ‘perception interrupt’ piece too (which I’ve been thinking about loads: Hmmmm which is my favourite pencil du jour? - a caran d’ache pale olive crayon today, which measures one small dachshund-in-alert -mode long).

Also I’m looking at the world in a really pleasing near and far away, way: shutting one eye and measuring tiny and large things in imaginary pencil lengths. It’s making me really chuckle and engage differently.

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Thank you Susannah! It's so nice to hear you loved it and it's got you doing imaginary measuring 😆 bringing in the near and far away aspect is a whole other level!!

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This is super cute and was an adorable way to discover your substack. My favourite pencil would be one mouse long or about 14 ladybugs. 🐭🐞

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Measuring in ladybugs!!! That's genius!! 😆

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I absolutely love this :)

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It was so much fun to put together! So glad you like it! 🥰

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