{"id":3044,"date":"2024-11-11T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2024-11-11T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:12:40","slug":"writing-deep-green-ink-with-silver-glitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/11\/11\/writing-deep-green-ink-with-silver-glitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Deep Green Ink with Silver Glitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Hand-writing.jpg\" alt=\"Handwritten journal entry dated November 11, 2024 about the first real rain of autumn, and various cozy indoor activities.\" class=\"wp-image-3045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Hand-writing.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Hand-writing-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Hand-writing-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent time this morning listening to the rain, and then opened up a souvenir of my trip to Japan to write with it.  It is <strong>Takeda Jimuki Kyo No Oto<\/strong> ink in <strong>Ryokuyuoiro<\/strong>, which is a deep, grayish green with silver sparkle.  The sparkle component clogged the first pen I tried, but I went with one with a wider feed, and enjoyed its beauty as I wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of the silver particles settled into the back of the ink bottle; the ink bottle label in Japanese and some English; gently glittering words.\" class=\"wp-image-3046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-Ryokuruiro-ink-collage-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My phone camera likes to increase the contrast when I photograph text (it wants it to stand out from its bright paper background), but hopefully you can see the silver glitter in the text, and the depth of the green.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups.jpg\" alt=\"Two images with sample, handwritten text in green, lightly shimmery ink. with ink-stained paper nearby to bring out the color.\" class=\"wp-image-3047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups.jpg 999w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024.11.11-green-ink-text-close-ups-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was pleasant to take the time to write with such lovely ink, and spill my thoughts after some time listening to rain.  I needed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent time this morning listening to the rain, and then opened up a souvenir of my trip to Japan to write with it. It is Takeda Jimuki Kyo No Oto ink in Ryokuyuoiro, which is a deep, grayish green with silver sparkle. The sparkle component clogged the first pen I tried, but I went &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/11\/11\/writing-deep-green-ink-with-silver-glitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing: Deep Green Ink with Silver Glitter&#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":[49,163],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-handwriting","tag-ink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}