{"id":3001,"date":"2024-10-09T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2024-10-06T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:28:52","slug":"writing-fountain-pens-pale-blue-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/10\/09\/writing-fountain-pens-pale-blue-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Fountain Pens (Pale Blue Theme)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of my TWSBI fountain pen and a writing sample in Diamine Glacier ink\" class=\"wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI.jpg 999w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024.10-TWSBI-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Finally out of the box: my first TWSBI fountain pen; its stub nib; a writing sample in Diamine&#8217;s Glacier ink. (It is too full of sparkles &#8211; I had to clean out the pen afterward, when it started to clog.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My writing hand is in a mood to write, so I unpacked my TWSBI Diamond 580AL Fountain Pen in  Iceberg Blue to start a new volume of my journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s lovely!  It feels well made, is comfortable to hold, and the angle makes sense.  I am switching to another Diamine ink (with fewer sparkles, so it will flow more evenly) for the rest of today&#8217;s writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yes, every autumn I do gush about autumn. Yes, there are pages listing all the foods I love to eat. No, I don&#8217;t have to hold back &#8211; I&#8217;m writing for my own satisfaction, and there&#8217;s no such thing as too much gushy enthusiasm in a private journal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I anticipate this pen will go into heavy rotation for letter writing, when I need a large pen I can hold comfortably for long letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My writing hand is in a mood to write, so I unpacked my TWSBI Diamond 580AL Fountain Pen in Iceberg Blue to start a new volume of my journals. It&#8217;s lovely! It feels well made, is comfortable to hold, and the angle makes sense. I am switching to another Diamine ink (with fewer sparkles, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/10\/09\/writing-fountain-pens-pale-blue-theme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing: Fountain Pens (Pale Blue Theme)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[253,49,163],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-fountain-pen","tag-handwriting","tag-ink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}