Wearingeul Pop Up Sale (Or, I can never resist writing implements or um, paper in general)
-Thank you @ladyqueth for letting me know about this!!
I managed to get to the pop up for Wearingeul, the Korean ink and stationery maker I only learned about through a foreign friend I made on the American app Tumblr where we talk about Ateez (sometimes the internet and fandom functions like it was always supposed to).
It was extremely gorgeous and deserved a better photographer than me.
They just WIN at packaging and product branding because HOW CAN YOU RESIST?
They also had the most ridiculously charming bookmarks of all time, both in embroidered cloth versions and cardboard clip versions:
My haul, because I went a bit insane:
OK so, I asked the sellers if you could use the glittery inks with regular fountain pens, and they said they didn't recommend it. Oh well OK, so twist my arm, I guess I HAVE TO buy that glass dipping pen which looks like an evil fairy's favorite wand. Oh Boohoo me. I got Moby Dick, which understandably is an ocean blue that has streaks of darker navy but less understandably has gold glitter (Moby Dick does not put to my mind gold glitter, but the ink is undeniably gorgeous.) I also bought a couple Chinese fountain pens after hearing so much about them (they are on order) so i bought a non glittery ink. Of all the colors, I liked The Sorrows of Young Werther best, though I have to confess that I have not read that book.
I also bought a set of the paper bookmarks, as well as their little handy guide on how to be a fountain and dip pen user. And they sell this solution for making the glittery inks not dry up, I think, but you could sell me literally anything if you called it Swan Elixir. Because I bought such a big haul, they also gave me the embroidered ink wiping cloth, and I won a masking tape from the gacha pull, so I picked Anna Karenina. (Oh they also had masking tapes, but I have too many so I didn't really look).
I'm excited to learn how to use the glass dipping pen. :D :D :D
