(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)
When I was growing up, my older sister, Karen, and I shared a room. On Christmas Eve, she would get so excited she couldn’t sleep. So, she’d wake me up in the giddy hours after midnight, and we’d giggle and whisper and try to make the time pass by going through her jewelry box trinkets and telling stories. Sometimes we’d stare out our windows at the luminarias still burning on the sidewalks beneath the cold winter sky.
Today’s ink is called Midnight Hour. It’s a vivid blue that has purple tones and copper sheen. It makes me think of dark, frigid nights gazing at the darkening sky with the Milky Way splashed across it.
On white Rhodia paper, the color changes depending on the angle and the amount of sheen. Sometimes it looks like cobalt blue. When the copper sheen predominates, it looks more like purple. It’s a fantastic color, and I love that it has some color-shift properties.
I don’t think my sister ever actually slept on Christmas Eve. I would fall back to sleep and be awakened by her around 5:00 a.m. We’d get our brother, Stan, and go wake up our parents. Christmas was always a magical, crazy, exciting day at our house. I think of my sister every Christmas Eve because now I’m the one who wakes up every hour excited about opening presents even though I’m 55 and my kids are both in college!
(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)
