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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 19

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Fruit Cocktail -- Scented A lovely peachy orange! (Orange is one of my favorite colors!) The scent is really fruity, but is not super strong. Remins me of the smell of Hawaiian Punch. No real shading, but a very solid color.

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 18

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Vibe -- Extreme Sheen Woo! My first thoughts when I saw this were correct: This is very similar to @organicsstudios "Walden". If I remember right, Walden was greener, but wow, this one is pretty great. I really do like sheening inks that look like you&

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 17

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Winterberry -- Chameleon To be honest, I'm never sure exactly what they mean by "chameleon" ink. Some have really interesting properties, but this one, for example, just looks like a pretty red glitter ink to me. Don't get me wrong, this

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 16

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Tundra -- Standard A lovely grey ink. It does remind me of some similar inks I have. It looks like it should shade well, though. It does look like clouds on a snowy day, or some of the pictures my wife had of the high arctic from

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 15

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Sleigh Ride -- Extreme Sheen I like the red of this-- it looks brown when it's wet-- and there is a lot of green-gold sheen, but it's hard to  see the sheen on camera I got a dip pen, so this is how

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 14

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Mint Twist -- Chameleon This is pretty. I'm not wowed by this color, but I think this is another color I'd like to send to my Mom. The glitter is blue, which is very nice with the mint color. Looks like there'

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 13

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Lullaby -- Standard What a lovely lavender. No particular shading or other properties. A lovely, basic purple. Not a "wow" color for me, but definitely a really good solid color. PS -- I'm using my TWSBI stub nib with Day 11's

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 12

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Snow Globe -- Chameleon Another blue ink, but this one really lives up to the Chameleon name. The glitter looks blue in the bottle, but on paper it's almost violet, at least under my light. I do like the pink to blue shading. (Side note:

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 11

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Grotto -- Extreme Sheen Intereting. Seeing the sheen on this makes me think that Cranberry (from Day 6) should have also been labeled at Extreme Sheen. I do like this --  reminds me of fire, or sunset. I do like orange-red inks and this is a nice

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar-- Day 10

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Chilly Nights -- Star Bright OK, this is a lovely ink! It does look like a winter's night. I think it has both a chunky silver glitter (star bright) but I think there's also a finer blue glitter, too. I don't

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 9

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Wishing Tree -- Chameleon Hmmm... I'm not sure about this color. It's interesting from a shading point of view, but what color is it? Is it green? Grey? Pink? The glitter isn't very over, but not horrible. Kind of men, really.

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 8

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Marley -- Standard Huh-- and here I thought Icy Lilac was a lot like Sailor Ha Ha, but darker. This is even more so. I mean, it does give ghostly vibes (ha!) and as it dries down, I really like the multi-color effect. I'll be

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 7

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Lemon and Lime -- Chameleon I usually love me a good green ink, but this is giving me highlighter vibes. It's an interesting color, but definitely not something I'd use for writing. The yellow and green shading is interesting and the glitter is

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 6

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Cranberry -- Standard OOOH! Like it's name, this is a fantastic cranberry red! The gold sheen is really interesting, too, and dominates the heavy swatch I did. It makes me wish I had my glass pen, and I may clean out my Homo Sapiens pen

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 4

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Forest Gateau -- Scented This color gives you a clue to the scent of this ink. Figured it out? Cherries! It's not very strong and doesn't really stay on paper, but that's ok. The color is really nice. A bit more

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 3

#diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Noble Fir -- Star Bright (glitter) Wow! Look how shiny! "Star Bright" is a new category this year, and it looks like it's a chunky glitter [and maybe holo glitter?]. I don't know if the camera will really show the glitter,

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Autumn/Winter Update:

I know it’s been a while, but a lot of things have happened in the last few months that made it take a while before getting this update out. The biggest news is that I am currently in Northern Ireland for at least the next 6 months. Around the

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June/July Update

I thought I was going to write a short and sweet newsletter for you all, but nope. Let's just get to it, shall we? Book Updates: First update is that Nemetona’s edits are pretty much done and the manuscript is with my Awesome Wife for a last

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Yuletide Pen Pr0n

The Wife knows me so well, and she is the Awesomest Penabling Wife (fight me!). Share my pen squee! :) This is an Esterbrook 407 Dip-less pen! It's an antique from the 1940s (ish) and it writes like a dream! I cleaned it well, and filled it with the

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Winter is Coming...and I don't mind!

Hello friends! It’s November, which means the fog and rain and cold has come down on Zurich. Not that I really mind, as I love Fall, Winter, and early Spring more than Summer. Me and hot weather don’t get along very well. The best part of Fall and

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March comes in more like a cranky bear.

Welcome to March, friends. It’s been a year since my Wife and I started quarantining, and I’m kind of over it. Switzerland has been slow rolling out vaccines, and while I’m happy for everyone I know gettings vaccines in the States (especially my mom and dad!), I’