What a gorgeous collection of browns. It’s so interesting when they’re put all together how very different they end up being even though sometimes individually you could swear they are the truest of browns 😆 The red browns are so red compared to all the rest. You have me looking at FWP Queen and Castle again now cause it looks so yellow gold in swatches I’ve seen but in this company of browns it shows out. Swatching inks does not fail to fascinate me.

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cutting the stickers in half is such a cute and creative way to make the most of a sticker, i love that, and i love how the spread came out because of it. and you know the noise is good 😂 very realistic planning environment honestly LOL

Doorbell & Lucy but no lawnmower so it's all good! 😄 My other half would have done the same thing thing with the doorbell or do the opposite and install it for someone 3' tall! 😂

Beautiful

Hi Karyna! Nice set up for the week. The alcohol inks are really starting to grow on me. I am planning to order some from her so I can use some. The color of those stickers are very fitting for the month of August as well. Glad to hear things are still going very well with your new job. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day!

Did they require signature upon delivery for fedex

Diamine Vintage Copper is one of my favorite Shimmer inks and Diamine Spiced Apple. I might use those this fall a lot haha I also have a bottle of Lie de The' coming in the next couple days. I hope to like it! I'm going to try it in my M1000 Renaissance Brown.

Personally, I don’t really mind the real life noises and don’t even really notice them until they’re mentioned. I love those pens so much.

How about cleaning lady schedule?

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I am actually about to get a rickshaw sleeve for travel, but any tips for air travel with a fountain pen? I feel like it will leak or they won't allow it in my carry on.

Browns have become a dangerous category to browse, I seem to like all of them 😂 If you ever want to try a 'cold' dark brown, I have been loving Dominant Industry 'Winter Wood' recently. My Diamine Colosseum looks exactly like the picture on the Cult Pens website and not at all like yours 😅 Yours look almost like 'Summer Sunset', another CP exclusive Diamine ink. Still pretty, though. Don't worry about your adjectives/descriptors, your descriptions of the inks make total sense! Thank you for the lovely video 😊

I am a color junkie and new to the ink world, so this was fascinating and beautiful! Thank you!

I love these videos! Very relaxing and zen. When I started my ink collection, there were two colours I never thought I'd enjoy in my pens: brown and grey. Then I had to get Writing Desk and picked up a sample of Herbin's Stormy Grey. I could not have been more wrong - I LOVE these colours in an ink!

I have owned quite a lot of pens -- including several Watermans ... but somehow never the Carène ... and somehow, I keep hearing good things about it. (Baader-Meinhof strikes again!)

I love this so much... This makes me want to swatch all my browns like this. Soooo many wonderful colors. I do have Espresso but have never inked it up. I want to try to ink a different brown each month and then rate them. Thank you for so much inspiration.

Diamine Chocolate Brown is my current fave, but I've seen some interesting colours on this!

Colosseum and Ina ho ❤

I thought I had found my perfect dark brown in Diamine Walnut but I think I need to try chocolate brown first before locking that in.

I need to add a hand turned fountain pen to my collection, there are so many stunning ones though that it is hard to decide on one. That Hinze Pen Co Champagne at Midnight one might end up being what I add though because every time I see it I just fall more in love with it.

Pilot and Robert Ester caught my eyes ❤

wow that nib holder is so beautiful.

Incredible how many browns there are but all with different characteristics. Beautiful!

This was so fun! I loved seeing and hearing about your small maker collection. 💜 ...13 small maker pens is a lot. I wonder how many I have? (goes to check collection) I have as many as you do 😮 though different makers. And there are still many more small makers out there to support!

Interesting what you found with cult pens colosseum - after my experience with bashful blueberry & a toe in the ocean looking the same to me, I wonder if they sometimes get their fruits & world's collections muddled? What you have looks more like my summer sunset to me

Perfect timing as I'm looking for a good brown ink. Thank you! I'm also attending the San Francisco pen show this year and hoping to get a chance to say hi. I've learned a lot from your videos over the past year.

From the POV. of a graphic designer, Colours absolutely have 'feels' just as fonts do. Using 'creamy' as a descriptor touches on both the feel of a colour as well as the feeling of an ink as you put it to paper. Its absolutely a good descriptor. <3

Dip test is not actual test especially for jowo nibs. In past i have many problems with flow in nib feeder of jowos

I've been on a brown ink kick! Diamine definitely knows how to do brown inks and Yule Log is my favorite. Love it and I'm really trying not to buy a bottle before finishing up my sample. And I totally get the "creamy" adjective/reference because the ones you referred to as "creamy" do bring to mind chocolate dessert 🤎 so yeah, it makes perfect sense to me! 😂 Fantastic variety of browns! Love that Henry has such a sophisticated palette! My daughter, Sunny, was the same! Love that! 🥰

I love these videos now that I have a few fountain pens (6 so far). Which are your top two favorites?

You should try Otto Hutt Caramel. It is a scented ink that smells delicious 🤤 and writes gorgeously

Great video! I found a few new ones I want to try now. You are helping me to love browns. I have a bottle of Irioshizuku Tsukushi that I am hoarding. It is a lovely brown and they no longer make it.

It is a quilting ruler, or at least looks very similar to one. So if people are looking for it, go to the fabric store 😊

Gorgeous!! It is crazy how similar some are and how much variation there is between browns! I have been really into light browns lately and a few of my faves are BPC sandstone, van diemans laughing kookaburra crest, Monteverde moonstone, and surprisingly that diamine weeping willow!! When I first swatched it I thought I would never use it!! But I recently put it in a MF sailor and really enjoyed it!

This swatching is amazing. It is a beautiful grid for picking my next brown ink! Thank you so much for doing this. I love that first ink and must get a bottle. I recently bought Diamine Terra cotta at the St. Louis Pen Show at end of June and I love it. I do consider it a brown leaning color, but a case could be made for orange. Fascinating! Thanks again.

Hi Karyna!! Those are some nice browns. The BOC Fox Squirrel is a nice light brown. One I will have to try one day. The Document Brown has always dried a pink/red for me when I use it. Diamine Chocolate Brown is a very nice “brown” one of my favorites. I like how the Diamine Coco Shimmer looks. It’s light but still nice and the shimmer works with it. Your adjectives work for me. I’m not all that different when I try to describe inks. Sure Diamine won’t hire me to describe inks but that’s alright. Diamine Weeping Willow I find challenging to describe as a brown. But a light brown is the best way to describe it. It’s still a decent color. Maybe not my favorite but it’s not bad. The Kelp Tea is amazing how it behaves. Going down a completely differently color and drying to a brown. The weeping willow does too. A lot of sheen for both inks. I really like the shimmer of Yule log. Probably my favorite or one of my favorite shimmer colors. It’s sharp. The FWP majestic maple syrup is a nice ink. The shimmer is Writing desk is sharp. The green sheen works with the dark brown base. Moonshine is difficult to describe as brown or even a dusty pink but that’s the only thing that comes to mind to describe it. At least right now. “Radioactive Orange” that’s good. In the bottle it does look like that when you say it. Diamine Colosseum definitely looks like a peach color. Fun video. Have a great day!!

Ooh Diamine Chocolate Brown and ina-ho for the win for me. I also like that karamel from Octopus Fluids although doesn't look brown :)

You make me want to re-explore my browns

P.S. These two pages of swatches look gorgeous to me!!! And thank you for swatching them all!!!

All the beautiful browns!!! So luscious 🤎 I still love my Diamine Sepia for everyday use, which isn't in with your swatches. I have a question Karyna - are the Diamine Inkvent inks available to purchase individually?

This video solidified my favorite brown inks that I have purchased.....lol. (Caffe Crema, Lie de the and the grn/brn ink that I'm hoarding as well Ina Ho.). Thank you for sharing. By the way, my hubby didn't want dogs but he fell in love as well. However, when they cost us extra money, make a mess in the home and/or rushing to get home to let them out, I get blamed for wanting dogs...lol.

Loving all the browns. Your diamine colosseum looks more like my diamine Petra which is from the same collection so I wonder if you got a mislabeled bottle? Diamine colosseum is more of a light brown as pictured on cult pens website. I have both.