Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 30/12/2025me too! I went with Energy (Sheaffer Coffee) and Frostbite (Jinhao 82) 171 7
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 27/12/2025Turning the Inkvent pigment inks into a colour wheel 🌈 Used Pineapple Spritz, Mittens, and Brrr! as my primaries, with Antler added to the outer ring to create desaturated tones. 3445 44
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 26/12/20254. Pale shaders. I wouldn't usually buy pale inks for myself (except maybe Overcast), but I strangely liked these so much! They are great shaders. Now let's see how Blush and Bittersweet perform in actual writing. 040 4
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 26/12/20253. Molten Basalt (with coppery sheen) and Frostbite (with coppery shimmer). I'm just drawn to copper and anything with that warm metallic feel – bronze, rose gold, and brass too. Combine that with my love for blue/blue-black inks, and these are perfect. 150 5
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 26/12/20252. Sheeners: Chaos & Energy. I didn't get others' excitement for Chaos until I put it in a stub nib. Now it's probably my favorite of the calendar. It just shows that swatches are actually only half the story - you might see the full potential only after trying them in fountain pens! 160 6
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 26/12/2025🤩 Inkvent 2025 inks I've enjoyed the most so far: 1. Pigment inks! I haven't tried colourful ones before since they are usually quite pricey. I'm happy Diamine started making these and included them in the calendar. I especially liked Antler - the sepia colour is perfect for outlines in sketching. 140 4
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 25/12/2025Day 25: Myrrh the Merrier. A teal ink with red sheen and blue shimmer – really pretty. Merry Christmas! 🎄☃️🦌✨ 1120 12
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 24/12/2025Day 24: Antler. The 5th pigment ink of the calendar! Such a beautiful brown 🦌 290 9
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 24/12/2025Day 23: Let it Snow ❄️ The blue/violet chameleon shimmer is still exciting, even after almost two Inkvents :) 120 2
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 23/12/2025beautiful letters and drawing! 💛 I’m noticing the green here too. But I feel like it’s harder to catch the chameleon shift in this one compared to Brrr!, which is also a pigment ink and wasn’t even labelled as chameleon :) 010 1
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 22/12/2025Day 22: Pineapple Spritz, chameleon shimmer ink. I can make the mocktail, but can’t write the word 'pineapple' correctly without auto correction, sorry about that 🍍 1161 16
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 21/12/2025Day 21: Chaos. Extreme sheen ink, beautiful in a stub nib. Apologies for the typo: *quiet, not quite 2141 14
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 20/12/2025Day 20: Ambience. New ink for February's #KillWinterWithOrange. Pink/gold shimmer chameleon ✨ 1160 16
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 19/12/2025Day 19: Overcast. A hug in a bottle. The calmness and silence of fog on paper. Might be too light for writing, but it is perfect for the mood 🤍 2110 11
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 17/12/2025Day 17: Gala. Violet. It’s the Wednesday before the long holidays, I’m tired and my gala mood is zero. However, I’m going to the opera, Handel's Flavio. Apparently, it’s a special 4 (!!) hour production – longer than I slept last night 💤 1120 12
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 16/12/2025Day 16: Ruby Taffeta is a deep red ink with a pink/light green chameleon shimmer. I haven’t written my greeting cards yet, so I think I will write them with this ink. Later, I will also draw the cinema building. 1132 13
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 15/12/2025Day 15: Frostbite. To me, this ink looks like Sargasso Sea with the bronze shimmer of Wearingeul Anubis. Oddly enough, might be my favourite of the calendar 🥶 1151 15
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 14/12/2025Day 14: Mittens 🧶🐈⬛ Pink pigment ink. Nice, but love the naming most of all 😄 Here, mittens are a thing – handmade wool mittens with ornaments, knitted by Latvian grannies 🥰 Mine have horses! 1180 18
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 13/12/2025Day 13: Molten Basalt 🖤 Blue-black with coppery sheen is stunning! 3231 23
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 12/12/2025Day 12: Bubbly 🥂 This champagne shimmer is so on theme for the large Christmas party tonight. I don't drink alcohol, and honestly, I feel too tired to party – but I certainly won't miss the food. It's the perfect plan, as always. 1190 19
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 12/12/2025Day 11: Brrr! I was waiting for a pigment shimmer ink and am very pleased. I actually catch a blue/violet chameleon shimmer. Similar to Snow Globe from last year's Inkvent. 1150 15
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 10/12/2025Day 10: Nostalgia with pink/gold chameleon shimmer. If I continued drawing – it would be a dinosaur museum 🦕 1200 20
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 09/12/2025Day 9: Bittersweet ink shades from cooler blue-green to warmer mossy green with layering. Nice one! The final building in the grid is the Apothecary, which probably supplies villagers with Green Vitriol, a light green crystal, necessary for making iron gall ink. 2170 17
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 08/12/2025sketched at a medieval drawing workshop tonight, and coloured it with fountain pen inks 2273 27
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 08/12/2025me too! I was going to, but gave up trying to catch the real base colours under all that sheen 😄 140 4
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 07/12/2025Day 7: Blush. Inkvent village got another coffee place for some reason ☕️ 2201 20
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 06/12/2025Day 6: Fir & Fog. This ink has the same chameleon shimmer as Diamine Wishing Tree - appearing green or pink depending on the angle – but its base color is different. 4261 26
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 05/12/2025Day 5: Marie Rose. Love the ink, and for me it's Mary Rose ⚓️ 1171 17
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 04/12/2025Day 4: Smoky Tobacco (scented ink). The scent is uncommon, and the ink is well-behaved. 1160 16
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 03/12/2025Day 3: Carousel 🎠✨First ever Inkvent pigment ink is bright red/orangey like a vintage carousel. Celebrating it by drawing the Post Office for the Inkvent village. Did you also notice golden sheen on your swatches? 5150 15
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 02/12/2025Day 2: Energy. Violet ink with contrasting green sheen, which is pretty. Perhaps this is the foundation for an Inkvent village? 1300 30
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 01/12/2025Inkvent 2025 🎊 Day 1: Celestial Skies. Beautiful teal ink with golden shimmer and red sheen. It's so lovely, I wish this one was the final 30ml bottle. Yes, it reminds us of Jacques Herbin Émeraude de Chivor, and isn't that a nice one ✨ Unfiltered/uncorrected swatches; lighting varies. 3654 65
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 18/11/2025Latvijas dzimšanas dienas pārgājiens Ogrē sestdien ♥️🇱🇻 090 9
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 09/11/2025On November 7, the same day Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein had its global release, my pre-ordered MinaLima edition of the book arrived, complete with a personalised bookplate and signatures 💜 130 3
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 08/11/2025Joined the Hiking Club to celebrate moody November weather with hikes. Today’s event was followed by a stretching session and free, healthy, delicious food - so much that we all got leftovers for a couple of meals. While not 'shopping my stash' exactly, it's the perfect entry for my frugal journey 😄 130 3
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 07/11/2025My shopping season is early summer – it's the anniversary of a tough life change, and I tend to cope by buying new things. This year's haul: advent calendars. Enough to last 4 months. This month is stones & crystals. So, to stay on theme, I'm finally digging out crystal growing kits and these books. 130 3
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 04/11/2025Stash haul: my tealight village. The blue is a souvenir from Scotland. The brown has the same spirit as the building I live in, so I loved it too much to use, afraid I'd damage it. Finally decided its whole purpose is to glow. It handles the heat perfectly, of course, as it's supposed to. ✨ 180 8
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 04/11/2025For example, when I hosted a Halloween dinner, I used everything I possibly could and didn't buy any new decorations. My only new purchase was a bowl set. My goal for Christmas is to buy as close to nothing new as possible. 140 4
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 01/11/2025Halloween dinner last night, before guests arrived 190 9
Antra Marta 🐈⬛ @antra-marta.id.lv · 18/10/2025Just a few glimpses of beautiful Edinburgh. Every corner tells a story. 1314 31
![Handwritten recipe in Uncial reads: 'Pinapple [typo] spritz mocktail
* ice
* pinapple [typo] juice 90 ml
* fresh lime juice 15 ml
* soda 120 ml
* pinapple [typo] wedge for garnish'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4n4xm4lqt2pehf6hnji3w6n/bafkreicqkpes56plmbs4hstceyd3wvsgnswxzpltrgxoyfmkqzjl2u4fn4)
![A notebook page featuring Uncial calligraphy. A swatch card for Diamine Chaos ink rests on the paper. The text reads "I believe in the duality of chaos. Even when everything feels like a wild mix, there is harmony if you look close enough. I’m just trying to find that quite [typo] cosmos hidden inside the daily noise."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4n4xm4lqt2pehf6hnji3w6n/bafkreidnna6vlv4mozdpdy2rnwumtoqv6j6bonwkeni7psnqlmhz5qcybi)
