Bold and classic.
Sheaffer Red.
In case you missed it earlier, I’m giving away a great looking notebook filled with Tomoe River Paper. Here’s a link for you.
xo
INK SWAB: 5/365 – Sheaffer Red
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INK SWAB: 4/365 – Caran d’Ache Storm
Caran d’Ache Storm is a soft and dusky purple. Anecdotally, I’d say it was also the most popular of the now-discontinued line of inks. (They entire line was discontinued and replaced by a new fancy <expensive> line.)
Are you hoarding bottles of Storm?
INK SWAB: 3/365 – Private Reserve Black Magic Blue
Day three of ink swabs makes me feel like this is really happening. Only 362 days to go!
Private Reserve’s Black Magic Blue is an ink I’ve reviewed in the past. Spoiler: I love it. The name doesn’t exactly match the color as I see a bunch of purple in both the swab above and the samples in the review.
It’s been awhile since I’ve inked a pen with this ink and seeing it again here is making me hunger (thirst?) for it a bit.
Oh, hey, I’m making progress on getting the new site filled in. There’s a fresh About Me page. Check it out.
INK SWAB: 2/365 – Montegrappa Blue
Montegrappa Blue looks like it has some red in it – making it appear somewhat purple.
I don’t have much experience with Montegrappa inks in general. Do you?
INK SWAB: 1/365 – Akkerman Het Zwarte Pad
Hey, let’s do a new ink swab every day in 2015, shall we?
I think it will be fun. Some posts will just be the swab – other posts may have more information and maybe even a full-blown review. We’ll just start and see how it goes.
Starting with PW Akkerman Het Zwarte Pad. It’s black.
Have you tried this ink? Did you buy it just for the bottle? (I did.)
xox
INK DROP: April 2013
I received my Goulet Pens Ink Drop delivery a couple of days ago.
What a great group of colors, yes?
If I had to choose one that didn’t fit with the others, it would be the De Atramentis Indigo Blue – it’s a little dusky compared with the other clear clean colors, but I’d definitely write with it.
Between the two turquoise colors, I would choose the Lamy. Though the colors are very similar, the Lamy is definitely more saturated and I like that.
The Namiki blue has a bit of red in it – defnitely still blue, but leans more toward the purple end of things to my eye.
I’ve heard some great things about Diamine Soft Mint (which ended up a little funky in the scanned image above) and hope to have time to take a closer look at it in the very near future. Here’s a picture from my iPhone – the color is a bit better here….
Kudos to the person at Goulet Pens who chose this assortment! Well done.
Oh..and here’s the image I posted over on Instagram. I’m @christinewitt there.
