This month’s Goulet Ink Drop theme was ‘Summer Picnic’ and was based on foods and fruit that one might enjoy on a picnic. Diamine Wild Strawberry Private Reserve Avacado De Atramentis Plum (Scented) De Atramentis Cucumber (Scented) Sailor Jentle Apricot As usual, the inks were sampled with  my Victorian dip pen in my Rhodia notebook. I didn’t [...]

A drabble I wrote yesterday using the ink samples that also arrived yesterday! The inks in the order used: De Atramentis Elderberries De Atramentis Hyacinth De Atramentis Rose  Diamine Meadow Pilot Iroshizuku Murasaki-shikibu (Japanese Beautyberry) I think the Elderberries is my favourite, but all the De Atramentis are scented and I’m not really all that interested in [...]

Pretty blues! I liked them all, though the Waterman is probably my least favourite.  I may add the Diamine to my wish list.  This month’s colours are: Waterman Mysterious Blue Noodler’s Turquoise Eel Diamine Aqua Lagoon Noodler’s Ottoman Azure Noodler’s Blue Eel (it’s not really that smudgy, I just ran my arm across it as [...]

My March Ink Drop sampler arrived today from The Goulet Pen Company!  This month was an interesting theme: Spring Cleaning.  They looked at their 30 worst selling inks and took the top 5 colours to include in this month’s package of inky goodness!  Some of these, I’m not sure why they aren’t more popular.  They [...]

Yesterday I posted a photo of some yummy (well, I’m guessing they’re yummy.  I haven’t actually eaten them) candy that arrived in my monthly set of ink samples from The Goulet Pen Company.  When I posted the link to Twitter, someone suggested I share what ELSE was in the package.  So… here you go!  I [...]