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This is my blog Wellinkedton. I am based in a beautiful but small city called Wellington so you get the pun?. My focus is on the ink that is at the heart of a fountain pen. I don't plan to review the ink as such as there are many brilliant blogs and sites out there that already do that. I want to share the stories of the inks and what I have found exciting about them in the hope I can provoke others to get on board the beauty of handwriting with a fountain pen containing ink from the vast palette available. There will also be the odd pen review. Everything featured on the site I have paid for.
The driver for this blog is living in a part of the world where obtaining inks is not always the easiest. Most of the current blogs are based on American prices and American access to ink and fountain pens. Therefore, as well as writing about ink (and pens) I hope to share some of the ways I have managed to obtain what I use.
My love affair with fountain pens began when I wasn't allowed to use one at school - you know the desire for what you can't have. When I finally had an income to take things seriously I wanted to buy a very good pen as I had this false idea that a good pen would suddenly make my writing legible. The delusion still persists, a bit. I know the pen won't suddenly give me the script I dream of but it hasn't stopped me buying pens.
My first purchase was a Pelikan Souverain M600. I bought the pen on a trip to New York at the fabulous but now sadly closed Art Brown pen shop. While purchasing the pen I was taken by all the inks available especially the De Atramentis scented inks that were available. Sadly I could not carry any home but as soon as I could ordered some online. I bought six, thought I had too many and gave some away. I carried on buying pens though I don't buy so many these days. As I stopped buying pens I started buying more ink and to think I once thought owning six inks was about three too many. Once I bought my hundredth ink I stopped counting.
Apologies in advance if any photo I use is not appropriately credited. I originally used open source, no copyright sites photos if they were not mine. If I had used photos found during other web searches I made every attempt to see if copyrighted and credit appropriately. As of June 2019 I have a paid subscription to sa stock photo site - I use this is I do not have my own photos.
This is my blog Wellinkedton. I am based in a beautiful but small city called Wellington so you get the pun?. My focus is on the ink that is at the heart of a fountain pen. I don't plan to review the ink as such as there are many brilliant blogs and sites out there that already do that. I want to share the stories of the inks and what I have found exciting about them in the hope I can provoke others to get on board the beauty of handwriting with a fountain pen containing ink from the vast palette available. There will also be the odd pen review. Everything featured on the site I have paid for.
The driver for this blog is living in a part of the world where obtaining inks is not always the easiest. Most of the current blogs are based on American prices and American access to ink and fountain pens. Therefore, as well as writing about ink (and pens) I hope to share some of the ways I have managed to obtain what I use.
My love affair with fountain pens began when I wasn't allowed to use one at school - you know the desire for what you can't have. When I finally had an income to take things seriously I wanted to buy a very good pen as I had this false idea that a good pen would suddenly make my writing legible. The delusion still persists, a bit. I know the pen won't suddenly give me the script I dream of but it hasn't stopped me buying pens.
My first purchase was a Pelikan Souverain M600. I bought the pen on a trip to New York at the fabulous but now sadly closed Art Brown pen shop. While purchasing the pen I was taken by all the inks available especially the De Atramentis scented inks that were available. Sadly I could not carry any home but as soon as I could ordered some online. I bought six, thought I had too many and gave some away. I carried on buying pens though I don't buy so many these days. As I stopped buying pens I started buying more ink and to think I once thought owning six inks was about three too many. Once I bought my hundredth ink I stopped counting.
Apologies in advance if any photo I use is not appropriately credited. I originally used open source, no copyright sites photos if they were not mine. If I had used photos found during other web searches I made every attempt to see if copyrighted and credit appropriately. As of June 2019 I have a paid subscription to sa stock photo site - I use this is I do not have my own photos.