Of Divine Deliciousness April 7, 2009
Posted by Jen in : Journal, Things to Buy , trackbackAs you can imagine, I am made of fairly stern stuff. But, dear reader, I must confess that something rare has happened. I have been swoonified. Oh yes indeed. I mean, of course I have my share of fanciful ideas – I’m practically famous for it. I daydream relentlessly about the house I will own in France when I am a famous writer. You know, the one with the dewy grass, raspberries growing, etc. And I do intend to make this happen. But, oddly for me, the object of my desire is in reach.
Isn’t this the most beautiful thing? I have never lusted over coloured ink before – quite the opposite, in fact. I am hopelessly in love with my Mont Blanc fountain pen and slightly lairy brown Waterman ink. I have been for some years and even take it to work for pleasant message-scribbling. The trouble, is course, is that I have to keep hiding it so that no one else uses it. I would, unfortunately, have to punch them in they eye if that were to happen. But look! Here! Oh my. I am truly weak with longing. I need – not want – NEED a Lamy fountain pen. And even more beauty abounds… 
Oh, so many colours. I do believe that my next novel will be weaved in Bleu Myosotis. *Sigh* Forget-Me-Not Blue. Heaven. The even betterer thing is that, after many swooning visits to this website over the past week, I have finally noticed that this oasis of writerly joy is only half an hour away from me. I’m weak, I tell you, weak. How funny that something so delicious was there all the time, I just never knew. So close, I could have reached out and touched it all along.
So… which colour are you?
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Oh, tough choice – it’s between saphire eclat or violet pensee…….
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Je suis rouge bourgogne (l’hic)
I love Lamy pens… and my ink of choice would probably be the cacao de bresil.
Tis hard, but I’d have to have one of the purply ones. Maybe Rose Tendresse or Rose Cyclamen. Thanks for sharing x
I was given a Lamy only a couple of weeks ago and it’s wonderful. Writing on Moleskine with it, is a joy. Gosh, that sounds really OTT.
I am now lusting over ‘vert olive’.
I am both Poussier De Lune and Vert Empire… x
Rose tendresse and Larme de cassis for me. What fabulous colours, and the names are wonderful to so evocative. I have a collection of biros of different colours to brighten up my morning pages but now I want a Lamy pen and lots of bottles of ink. I am sure my writing would improve immediately if I had such lovely colours to choose from. And I want a gorgeous notebook too. Now look what you have done, I shan’t be able to write with my measly biros in my boring notebook. Shame on you!!!!
Bleu Azur…but it’s a close call. A gorgeous fountain pen is on my wish list. Thanks for this post, you’ve reminded me of a long buried yearning!
What a delicious website, I love stationery. I’d love to buy a moleskine notebook, but I wouldn’t have anything to write that would be worthy of it. As for those inks, I am most certainly a bouton d’or.
Which colour am I? Hmm, let me think about it. Umm, black!
A different colour every day.
It has taken me decades to get over the humiliation of learning to write with an ink pen (I’m a left handed dyslexic, the odds were stacked against me)
So I shall indulge in a quality paint brush and make broad sweeping marks across luxury paper….. forget me not blue, sounds appropriate
I like things like fineliners and gelpens,a nd best of all some throwaway Rotrings I got from an end-of line discount type place. I used to love real Indian ink type Rotrings and did everything in them. I think I would probably abuse a fountain pen too much now, but these colours are really tempting; who thought up those wonderful names? I think probably gris nuage for me, though poussiere de lune is almost irresistible for the name, and larme de cassis, and rouille d’ancre… I think I’d better head on over to the website!
I often use pretty notebooks now – I didn’t used to but I think it’s good for one’s self worth.
Ooh I say, how utterly gorgeous. I’m either bleu myosotis or vert pre – delicious outdoorsy, summery colours. I could be inspired to write a whole novel in one sitting, but it might be a bit messy. I’m not good with fountain pens, sadly!
poussiere de lune.
if they run out, gris nuage and vert empire are hot on its heels.
do you think it’s worth retraining myself to write properly with a fountain pen? i love ‘em in theory, but find them very hard to write with in practise.
(they think my lovely purple is burgandy red! what’s that about???)
When I was a proper lawyer and had to sign stuff a lot, I used my fountain pen and turquoise ink, partly because turquoise is my favourite colour and partly because we had a very old fashioned cashier who believed that signing cheques in anything other than BLACK INK was tantamount to heresy and I enjoyed torturing her. I miss that.
I’ve never used a fountain pen, but they always looked romantic and old-fashioned-writerly. I’m either Bleu Myosotis or Blue Nuit, but the other blues are lovely as is the Diabolo Menthe.
Liz – It’s impossible to choose just one, isn’t it?
Queenie – Ooh la la, I likes it when you speaks foreign, Miss.
Clair – Hello! Ooh, a proper recommendation, fabulous. Now I need to decide whether to go for a fine or extra-fine nib. (Not ‘nob’, as I just typoed!)
Helen – Those colours sound perfect for your stories, lovely.
Lane – Ooh, another recommendation. I should do this more often! Ok, so Lamy pen it is then. You have now made me also ‘need’ a Moleskine. Hmmmm. I suspect I’m ging to have to combine this trip with one to Hotel Chocolat for the ultimate in all things desirable!
DJ – They would actually look startlingly heavenly together, I think. I want them all now!
Sheepish – Oh, I’m sorry. Well, a bit sorry, in a not-sorry-at-all sort of way. I really do believe that morning pages should be performed with a beautiful pen in a favourite notebook. But if your Biros are French, I think that’s probably ok?
Tam – There is something very special about a good pen – it gives credence to us as writers too. Well, that’s what I’ll tell the bank manager when he’s congratulating me on my spending ability!
Sam – It’s a gorgeous site, I can’t wait to visit the shop. I haven’t been so excited for yonks! Your words are perfectly suitable for a Moleskine – if you’ve got any left by the time I’ve stolen them all!!!
Cap’n Rose Tendresse – Hmmmm. Ok. You win.
Upphilldowndale – Ooh, hello! I frequently gasp over your lovely photos and dream of stealing your scenery! Crumbs, you make handling a paintbrush sound unbearably elegant. And we’re the same colour. Wonderful.
Lucy – Oh no! I never knew I need rotrings! Ok, I probably don’t. Aren’t the names of those inks just wonderfully romantic. And the bottles, oh! Just perfect. I do think you’re right about the notebooks – I never have in the past but am going to now. We’re worth it, right?
Karen – I work with a great bear of a man who is ALWAYS covered in ink. He has it on his hands, his face, the insides of his jacket pockets… I love the sound of pen on paper. While the rain pours and the wine chills. *Sigh*
b – Poussiere de Lune… it deserves to have a poem written about it, so tender does it sound. I think you are a fountain pen kind of gal. I never used to be but, once turned, I hate using anything else now. Lovely purple, Burgundy red? Hmmmm. Maybe it’s a French grapey winey thing?
Loth – I think your flounciness of turquoise signings signals the fact that you were a most improper lawyer! Cheques – in non-black ink? Oh my. Pass the smelling salts. (Am v proud of you. I’d have done the same.)
Angie – We were forced at primary school to use fountain pens but of course we couldn’t wait to get to secondary school to use a cheap old Bic biro. I just really like the act of unscrewing the cap, the nib all golden and laden with words. I am quite sad!
What stationery nirvana. I now absolutely need to write in Larme de Cassis
Poussiere de lune or Larme de cassis sound divine. Since childhood, I’ve avoided fountain pens – being left-handed I was prone to making a terrible mess but these delightful things may make me change my mind.
Oh dear, they’re all gorgeous…
Similar idea, but I lean towards the downmarket so buy multi-packs of coloured biros – I’d only wreck a fountain pen. But why is there always a very attractive but completely useless, yellow in there? What can anyone do with a yellow biro?
There’s something about the vert reseda… and vert olive…
Oh, how lovely. I always had a thing about italic nibs – there’s something intensely satisfying about the smooth change from thick to thin – but it’s a long time since I used one. I’m afraid I’m addicted to word processing these days.
But another thing I’ve always liked is wet ink. Seeing it glisten on the page… and there’s something thirst quenching and fruity about it. I like highlighter pens for this reason, as well as the italic thing. And that pot of ink, plus those colour swatches… they make me think of wet ink. Brilliant.
Featherduster – The names are divine… I must confess, I may have become a little carried away in the pen & paper shop…
Thursday – In the magic pen shop, they had left-handed fountain pens! And oh! the things I could have bought… the shop, it beckons me again…
Honeysuckle – Yellow biros? Really? Who would use such a thing? A spy, perhaps?
Liane – I must confess that there is now a beautiful bottle of vert olive on my desk…
Beleaguered Author – Ooh, yes, the italic nibs had me going for a while but I managed to resist. Word processing is tip-top but, well, I can’t do morning pages or poetry on a keyboard. The words get stuck. Novel-writing clatters along fine. Weird. Wet ink is one of the most beautiful things… a slight slick on expensive paper is really quite sexy. Glad I’m not the only one to have noticed. Oh, and hello!
I’m definitely an Ambre de Birmanie. Definitely. I used to, however, write with a colour somewhere between blue and black and very nicely affected it was too. Those were in the days of pens, of course, one of which, on which, I haven’t set fingers for years. (Note the grammar. Note the grammar.)
You are a very wicked temptress, Ms Spiral…