Sorry guys for not publishing a while

I was hospitalized for a few weeks after some health problems. So I could not write anything for a while. Everything seems OK now, and I am full of energy again. I will start with writing again on one of my big passions: fountain pens, ink and notebooks. Some great fresh ideas crossed my mind. So I hope you will read again my blog with great enthusiasm.

Visconti Homo Sapiens (stub-nib)

Visconti (from Florence, Italy) made a beautiful pen out of really ancient materials, bronze, lava and palladium. They introduced the pen at the Philadelphia Pen show in january 2010.


Package

The package contains, the pen, a beautiful luxury leather-feel box, a booklet on Visconti, a impregnate cloth for cleaning the bronze parts. Inside the booklet is a DVD on Visconti and on how to use the fountain pen. It also contains a seal with the serial number (mine is CG0015945459).

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Moleskine Passions - Welness Journal

The new Moleskine Passions - Welness Journal

Iroshizuku ajisai (ink review)

This ink review is about the Iroshizuku ajisai ink. I bought this bottle at PenGallery in Malaysia. My experiences with this shop are good.

I bought some new flash gear, so had to try a lot and made a lot of pictures of this ink ;-)


Color
A nice vivid bluish purple color. It is named after the beautiful flower Hydrangea. But the color is more blue then purple.

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