{"id":3148,"date":"2024-12-28T10:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2024-12-28T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:14:47","slug":"words-in-ink-diamine-forest-gateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/28\/words-in-ink-diamine-forest-gateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Words in Ink: Diamine Forest Gateau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AEG-Ink01-Diamine-Forest-Gateau.jpg\" alt=\"Deep red Diamine 'Forest Gateau&quot; ink with the following text: eating \/ a fresh pomegranate \/ the deepest red \/ on my fingers \/ and face \/ sweetness \/ and the slightest \/ bitterness \/ on my lips. Original text by A.E. Graves.\" class=\"wp-image-3149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AEG-Ink01-Diamine-Forest-Gateau.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AEG-Ink01-Diamine-Forest-Gateau-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AEG-Ink01-Diamine-Forest-Gateau-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Such a pleasant shade of red&#8230;  This is Diamine Inkvent 2024 Black Edition &#8220;Forest Gateau&#8221; (4\/25) a sweetly scented ink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought the Diamine Inkvent Black Edition for 2024, an advent calendar in which each little window contains a bottle of ink.   Each year Diamine invents new colors, releases them this way, and then produces full-sized glass bottles later.   This is my second year of purchasing the set.  Prior years were impressive and produced two of my favorite sheening inks (Polar Glow and Holly), and so the series has high expectations to live up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s set is influenced by the popularity of very muted colors (mostly coming from Asia &#8211; muted pastel grays and browns especially), colorful particulate glittering inks, plus a few sheening inks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Diamine fans posted ink swatches and art daily to show off the inks, but long working hours and<em> my desire not to just be another form of advertiser<\/em> meant I took time to write letters and journal entries with the inks and get accustomed to my favorites.  I also finally accepted that my phone mutes the colors too much, and scanning is really the only reliable way to go.  I&#8217;ll post small writing samples of these inks, and others of many brands in my ink collection, over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought the Diamine Inkvent Black Edition for 2024, an advent calendar in which each little window contains a bottle of ink. Each year Diamine invents new colors, releases them this way, and then produces full-sized glass bottles later. This is my second year of purchasing the set. Prior years were impressive and produced two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/28\/words-in-ink-diamine-forest-gateau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words in Ink: Diamine Forest Gateau&#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-3148","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\/3148","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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}