from Japan …

The other day I finally received a bottle of ink I ordered back in October. I'd pretty much given up hope. Since I believed this particular ink would be my “grail blue”, I was weighing back and forth whether to re-order it from elsewhere. I opened the package, and together with the bottle, out came…

nice cover

For the longest time, I've been wanting a refillable leather cover for my Seven Seas notebook. There are those made specifically for this notebook, but they've been out of stock since last year some time. I've looked elsewhere, but wasn't sure the measurements would fit exactly. Besides the one in their website looked so nice so…

impulse purchase

On Boxing Day [the day after Christmas], I was aimlessly browsing Amazon when this fountain pen appeared before me. It wasn't on my radar -- I'm not even sure it's a pen I would have been interested in normally. However, the picture and the price appealed to me, and I thought “What the heck?! I'll…

purple

Can't say I've had much luck with purple inks. Tried J. Herbin's Violette Pensée ... it just never dried, and I'm left handed. It looked stunningly beautiful while wet! When it eventually dried, some 30 minutes later, on Tomoé River paper, it turned more blue-ish. The example above is Diamine's Amazing Amethyst. I like the…

Visconti

I don't have a Visconti pen ... it's not a brand I feel myself drawn to. In fact, it's quite amazing how I, in only a few months, have already found my preferences when it comes to all this stuff in the fountain pen world ... brand of pens, paper, inks and so on. Now,…

pink!

I've bought my first, pink ink. This is really weird ... «me, getting a pink ink?!» Of all colours ... But here I am with a full bottle of Pelikan's colour of the year 2012; Edelstein Turmaline. I'd been eyeing it for some time -- knowing it's sold out everywhere else. I put it in…

new ink

Not only my three packs of ink cartridges, but also a Sheaffer Sagaris fountain pen arrived. The latter was unexpected. It was said to arrive Wednesday. I bought it basically because of the price (!). I paid $22. Thought it was cheaper because of the, perhaps less attractive colour, but the next minute I clicked…

the greens

  I like the colour green, but I find it very iffy to get the 'right' green ... that I really love. So far I haven't -- not when it comes to inks at least. I have only two green. I bought the Pelikan P205 for the sole reason I wanted to be able to…

it’s a bit like photography

This whole fountain pen business reminds me at times about the DSLR camera: paper, pen, ink ... ISO, aperture, shutter speed. You can't change one without changing the others. Almost. When I started out, I found out about Clairefontaine paper and thought it was heavenly. After a while a pen pal in Germany sent me…

expanding flock

I'm not a fountain pen collector per se, in spite of the fact I have nine. Well ... eight -- one is on its way to France 🙂  All of them were bought for different reasons, such as colour, beauty, cuteness or brand. This has only been going on since June this year, and one…