When you complete a gorgeous card, do you ever feel that it's a shame to write in it with a normal blue biro? I cringe at the thought every time, and so I keep a stack of different coloured metallic gel pens for the handwriting part - sometimes they'll sneak onto the front of the card too, but we'll just keep that as a little secret between me and you LOL!
For my wedding invitations, I felt I had to go one better even, than the gel pens, and very spoiled rotten me, had just the thing, which I received last year from a very dear relative who had just been to Venice for a bit of a look around.
The inscription reads Fabris Giuliana 1925 Venezia - isn't it just exquisite!! To save breaking the wax seals on the included ink bottles, I chose to go with my Perfect Plum ink refill from Stampin' Up! Did you know the little dropper top pops out of the bottle and you can insert a quill to pick up ink?
This suited me beautifully as I was determined to have co-ordinating colours. Thanks to darling Tony for being the studio photographer . . .
It's so lovely, I feel it should be in a glass display cabinet somewhere, but having said that, I am so pleased that I have actually used it, and enjoyed it . . . too many times we keep something "for special occasions" and never get around to using it - thanks Tony for reminding me that handwriting on my wedding invitations is a "special occasion" and this lovely quill has provided just the perfect finishing touch!
Exquisite was the word I had in my head too! Very beautiful and now your already beautiful invitations have another very special element to them. Thank you for sharing!
Posted by: Kimmy Meiklejohn | March 16, 2010 at 04:26 PM
This is exquisite, Kathryn. I don't ever use plain blue biro in cards (usually black fine liner, but often colour co-ordinated with the card), so I can well appreciate the beauty of this very special gift! Nice to see it's getting used, for something super-special.
Posted by: Christine Blain | March 14, 2010 at 09:24 PM