Ink Review: Sailor x Dromgoole’s Apricot Jam & Mint Jelly

I don’t know why I waited so longer to pick up the Sailor x Dromgoole’s collaborative inks: Mint Jelly and Apricot Jam ($20 each for 20ml bottles). These were released last year around the holidays inspired by Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner accompaniments. At the last pen show, I grabbed bottles of both and have fallen…

Ink Review: Esterbrook x TheCoffeeMonstersCo Forgotten Iced Coffee

Ink Review: Esterbrook x TheCoffeeMonstersCo Forgotten Iced Coffee

(If at any point in this review, I accidentally call this ink Forgotten Iced Tea, I apologize in advance. The color reminds me more of iced tea than iced coffee so I have it in my brain that that’s what its called.) Along with the release of the much-coveted Esterbrook Estie collab with TheCoffeeMonstersCo, Esterbrook…

Ink Preview: KWZ St. Louis Pen Show 2025 Meet Me in St. Louis – 314 Blues(@stlpenshow)

Ink Preview: KWZ St. Louis Pen Show 2025 Meet Me in St. Louis – 314 Blues(@stlpenshow)

KWZ 2025 St. Louis Pen Show Meet Me in St. Louis – 314 Blues ($20 for 60ml Bottle) is the limited edition ink available at this year’s St. Louis Pen Show. Each bottle is 60ml and there will only be 200 bottles available. The ink will be sold exclusively at the show (this weekend Friday…

Ink Review: Dominant Industry Log of Elixir/Log of Atlantis Inks

Ink Review: Dominant Industry Log of Elixir/Log of Atlantis Inks

Monday I reviewed the Ink Archiving Books from Dominant Industry and today, I have the inks that were released to compliment the collections. For each collection, there were two inks released. For the Log of Atlantis the two inks were Atlantis (shimmer) and Seaweed (standard). For The Log of  Elixir the inks are both standard…

Ink Review: Dominant Industry Little Craft Fest 2025 Exclusives

Ink Review: Dominant Industry Little Craft Fest 2025 Exclusives

While I was in Houston, I grabbed the Little Craft Fest exclusive ink colors from Dominant Industry. The irony was that the first day of the show, they did not have swatches of the colors to show so I went back the second day and someone had swatched them. One of the bottles in clearly…

Ink Review: Diamine x Independence Trust a Bivalve + Shimmering Kelp

Ink Review: Diamine x Independence Trust a Bivalve + Shimmering Kelp

A few weeks ago I was super excited to order Inkdependence’s newest collaborative inks. Mike teamed up with Diamine to create Never Trust a Bivalve and Trust a Bivalve ($8-14 for 30mL) featuring wonderful label art from Tom of Sugarturtle Studio. These two new inks are lots of fun, but I was a good girl…