Monday Matchup: Pilot Falcon with Athena Hatobanezu

This weeks Monday Matchup and Quote of the Week in one!

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Ink Review: Kingdom Note 'Tanna Japonesis' (Sailor Jentle)

Monday Matchup: Chartres Blue Platinum 3776 inked with Athena Eternal Blue

Coming soon: Ink Review for Kingdom Note Tanna Japonesis

I've been writing some letters with Kingdom Note Tanna Japonesis and am really loving this ink! I should have a review up in the next few days! 

Ink Review: 'Eternal Blue' Athena ink from Maruzen

Hi Guys, here is my review of Eternal Blue.

 I'm afraid my scanner isn't great and - on my monitor at least - the colour seems lighter than it should so I took some photos as well which are truer to the original.

Haul from Japan!

So I'm back from Antarctica!!! I had an amazing trip, check out my Instagram if you want to see a few photos!

Since I saw him last my dad has been to Japan twice and before he left I gave him a list of shops in Tokyo to go to if he had the time and a budget of $100 to spend on inks for me - he ended up spending well over that and gave me the rest as gifts!!

Here's what I got:

Pens:

Sailor 1911 (I think it's the Profit?) in a burgundy red with a 14K fine nib.

Pilot Prera, fine

Pilot Kakuno, fine

Pilot Parallel, 2.4mm

Inks:

Four boxes of Pilot cartridges for the parallel.

Maruzen "Athena" ink in Eternal Blue and Hatobanezu

Sailor Kingdom Note ink in Tanna japonensis and Entoloma virescens

Iroshizuku ink in Kiri-same, murasaki-shikibu and ina-ho

Other:

A beautiful leather pen roll by 'Romeo'

And some Japanese sweets!

Here are a few extra images:

Up next: Ink reviews for the Maruzen and Kingdom Note inks.