Goulet Pen's September 2011 Ink Drop - Part 1

There was a time, and some of you out there are old enough to remember it, that a student had to do a rough draft of an essay, with a pen or pencil on paper, before typing up a final draft to turn in. There were no word processing programs that checked our grammar and spelling. If we made a mistake on our final draft, we had to use correction fluid, line up the paper and try to type over the mistake. It was brutal, but it toughened the student up to face the real world. It is difficult to imagine those days now.

It is also difficult to imagine a world without Goulet Pen Company's Ink Drop Club. Until last year around this time members had nothing to look forward to. The future was a blank, barren and desolate. Now members can look forward to receiving samples of cool inks to try out every month without fail, regular as clockwork. It provides joy and purpose in life.

Therefore it is fitting that Brian and Rachel Goulet celebrate the one year anniversary of the Ink Drop Club with a great package. Along with the samples, they have included a small, but handy Clairefontaine notebook perfect for jotting down brilliant ideas or tedious to do lists. The Clairefontaine paper is perfect for use with fountain pens and ink. It is a nice bonus, but as usual the ink samples are the real treat.

The theme for the month is “Inkiversary Travels”. All of the samples have in their name a travel destination. Here they are:

Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon

Diamine Monaco Red

Noodler's North African Violet

Private Reserve Sherwood Green

Waterman Florida Blue

It looks like a great selection of colors to me. I'm getting off to a late start this month because it took so long to run the ink from last month out of my pens. Besides the Ink Drop maze, I managed to draw twenty pages of my fifth maze with the August inks. The Lamy pens are long range pens!

Here is a picture of the September Ink Drop.

You can join the Ink Drop Club here.

That's it for today!

Jonathan