First, Merry Christmas! And thanks for sharing your December with us. We love this community and love sharing our passions with you. I am so excited to close Inkmas this year with my favorite inks for 2025. I went through my planner and the lists I make each month of the inks I used each…
I know it’s only mid-December, but I’ve probably re-inked my pens for the last time this year so it’s recap time! This is the first year I’ve put all my data into a spreadsheet to figure out what inks I used the most. But we’ll get to that later. My 2025 Ink Intentions In 2024,…
I keep picking up more purple inks. I don’t know what’s possessed me but I keep finding new, different and interesting purply colors. Over the last few months, I grabbed a bottle of the Yachingstyle Bellflower, Ink Institute Echeveria Sahviana (Mexican Hens) and Diamine Inkvent Black Edition Potpourri. The Inks: I confess I bought Ink…
It was actually cool this morning. Like, I needed a sweater and socks! I immediately went out and bought some Pumpkin Spice Coffee because in my heart, Autumn is coming and I’m ready to embrace it with two hands — one with a steamy mug and the other with fresh muffin. Hello, Autumn! We missed…
On a recent perusal of JetPens, one ink in particular caught my eye: Teranishi Guitar Innocent Mauve (40mL for $23). You know I’m a sucker for purples, and this one has all the things I love: deep jewel tones, warm red hues… I’m not sure if this color is entirely what I think of when…
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…
Let’s just get it out of the way right now. This is not the first time I’ve waxed poetic about Monteverde Birthday Cake this year. I don’t know what happened but something clicked with me and this ink in 2023. I used an entire 30ml bottle of Monteverde Sweet Life Birthday Cake ($12) and then…
