Inkvent 2025, Day 24, 25 Diamine fountain pen inks…leading to Christmas: Invent Advent Calendar

This is the link to where all of the daily, decent, swatches I’ve been sharing has been sourced: Audrey Matteson of @inkdependence shows helpful swatches for ALL 25 of the inks in a 32min46 seconds: "Take a Tour of the 2025 Diamine Inkvent Calendar! (Spoilers!)" on YouTube    • Take a Tour of the 2025 Diamine Inkvent Ca...   Playlist Link for all 25 days of "Inkvent Advent Calendar 2025"; early morning videos of opening each of the 25 Diamine Advent inks as well as showing my daily letter of how the ink looked on paper:    • Inkvent Advent Calendar 2025   I did the math on this letter-writing business I’ve been doing: Stamps cost 78¢ I ordered the least expensive envelope option I could find on Amazon last night. Each envelope is 12¢ Each sheet of the onion skin paper cost ~18¢ Dang! Sending a letter is $1.08! This is a link to Amazon where I got the glass dip pen; it was $21.80 - https://amzn.to/4pgBREQ affiliate Here is a Playlist to educate yourself about the basics of using fountain pens "Fountain Pen Basics" on YouTube by Brian Goulet, Goulet Pens    • Fountain Pen Basics   Here’s a link to someone that I really want to share…Timothy Steiner, a.k.a. by the pen name of Hemingway Jones. His video about using fountain pens for writing in a journal completely moved me! Here it is: "Struggling? Here’s How Journaling Helps!" Hemingway Jones 14min26sec    • Struggling? Here’s How Journaling Helps!   This is a link to a children’s book about letter writing, Seven Little Postmen by Margaret Wise Brown, (A Little Golden Book) that I shared about in Day 8 when I was talking about the benefit of letter writing that using fountain pens has encouraged in my life, https://amzn.to/3XDEx3l affiliate There are some very good fountain pens that don’t have to hurt one’s wallet. I am very happy, PLEASED, with this inexpensive $14 Jinhao 9019 DaDao Series Fountain Pen, Size 8 Medium Cardiogram Nib, with it’s THREADED Large Ink Converter. I got the one with the transparent green body that has gold trim. (It comes in MANY other color choices.) https://amzn.to/4aA4Qif affiliate This is a complementary green ink that I use with my transparent green Jinhao pen: Diamine’s Shimmering Golden Ivy https://amzn.to/48KIhVT affiliate This is a link to the copywork book I am using for copying the Bible, a project I’ve been chipping away at since the fall of 2012…I am hoping to complete it in April or May, before my 65th birthday. Anyway, about the notebook: I consider what I had to switch to to be a bit costly at ~$15…but we all have our own measure for what is costly and what is a pittance https://amzn.to/4oLGwNT affiliate - the reason I felt the need to switch from my inexpensive composition notebook style books for my copywork project is that not all paper is good for fountain pen inks. These are some of the serious SWATCHERS that I shared about during my Day 5 video, on the day when I shared the Marie Rose standard ink from Diamine’s Inkvent 2025 collection: Day 1 Celestial Skies (shimmer) (Manda B @inksplat …reviewing BOTH Diamine’s Inkvent Advent Calendar AND ColorVerse’s Colorvent Advent Calendar) - she’s sharing and commenting on each day’s ink from two different ink Advent collections.    • Inkvent Day 1: Diamine Celestial Skies & C...   Day 2 Energy (sheen) & Day 3 Carousel (pigment) Bookish ARTIST, Mandy Kook @BookishMandy - she creates an illustration and writes a little story related to the illustration using each day’s Invent ink.    • Diamine Inkvent 2025 Day Three | #inkmas2025    Day 4 Smoky Tobacco (scented) Danielle @mydandeliondiaries - she not only swatches the daily inks from the Inkvent Advent Calendar, she also displays a beautiful and helpful (to me) collection of other inks that are in the same color family as the daily Invent ink being swatched. Here is a sample of how she does her Inkvent videos: "Diamine Teal Inkvent: Day 4 [Smoky Tobacco]  | #inkmas2025"    • Diamine Teal Inkvent: Day 4  | #inkmas2025   AND, this is her website: https://mydandeliondiaries.com Fountain pens and all things connected to using fountain pens is a hobbyist’s rabbit hole! This link will let you “attend” THE pen show of pen shows, the SUPERSHOW: Mike Matteson’s "LIVE” from the DC Fountain Pen Supershow 2025! 3hrs8min33sec https://www.youtube.com/live/DRFNXip-... This morning, the morning of Christmas Eve, I remembered being a little girl at Christmas and the delight I felt at sitting watching one of our special decorations: "Swedish Angel Chimes"…I enjoyed the beauty and the sound of Swedish Angel Chimes when I was a little girl; I’m grateful to have been able to be a bit nostalgic…getting to watch and listen to this sweet video:    • Swedish Angel Chimes   Link to Amazon for Swedish Angel Chimes: https://amzn.to/4paOO2b affiliate https://buymeacoffee.com/lorileeke