Of course Pens & Tea should have an Earl Grey!

If you really wanted to keep the FWP box, wait until after it dries and then cover the inky spots with clear packing tape to prevent future transfer.

Pens and D&D and general nerdiness - I'm there for it! Sorry about the ink tragedy and the job thing! 2023 was rough - I think 2024 is going to be much better!

Your Earl Grey is prettier than any of the promotional pictures I've seen! Now I have FOMO but I also absolutely don't need another pen. Condolences on your ink explosions' and congratulations on the limited total losses! And happy belated birthday, Kerry.

Love the sticker with the dragon hugging the Lamy 2000.

I just found your channel. I’m so enjoying you and your personality and your honesty. I’m a newbie to the fountain pin world, so this is very helpful!

Sorry for the tragedies! I pray the rest of the year will come with many blessings.

I figured that’s what you were going to say - but good work keeping the suspense going! I watched the Anderson Pens video yesterday and they mentioned that they watch the weather forecasts for wherever they are sending ink orders and wait until there is no danger of freezing for just this reason. Enjoy your new acquisitions. Interesting that you are in Canada and purchasing FWP press inks from an American shop - well-travelled ink, but it’s back home 😊

Happy Birthday! May this year brings you joy and happiness ❤ Love the presents 🎉

Happy birthday and sorry to hear about your job and other situations! As a dragon lover, it is your year; hope it is great!

Take care and hope you find the job that works for you soon.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY DAY ! U'RE GREAT ! PLEASE DON'T STOP ! :)

"things that can break in the winter" I hear the sounds of spilled frozen ink....

Love the Earl Gray pen. Happy Birthday!!

I cannot comprehend living somewhere cold enough that ink would freeze! I've lived in Australia and Fiji for most of my life. I now live in Perth, Australia and it's so hot right now, we keep chocolate in the fridge so it doesn't melt!

Oh no! Now I’m afraid to order some ink with the cold weather

I was exhausted and needed to relax and laugh. This made my day! Thank you! Sooo envious of the Benu Earl Grey 😍

This came to mind immediately! Yet here’s a spot. Out, damned spot: out, I say. One; two. Why then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeared? What need we fear? Who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

As a fellow Canadian, I salute your bravery at ordering ink in winter. I would never take that chance, for me, winter is to order pens, summer is to order ink! Great video, as usual, glad that you did not lose too much ink!!

Happy Birthday, Kerry. Always get myself something nice for mine's every year, too. Purveyors tend to use Inktober to clear their ink inventory, always prompting me to stop ink purchases until spring.

Happy birthday. I bought myself my first Leonardo MZ Prugna it arrived yesterday: no inky messes. Enjoy your new Benu!

Happy birthday and enjoy your new pen!

Happy belated birthday, Kerry!!! I am so happy for you about getting the earl grey Benu! I love that your patreon member did this for you 😻 Sorry about the ink explosions but as you said they haven't been the worst. Very very sorry about the job situation. That sucks. I hope you will find something else that you like very soon. Maybe the (Canadian part of the) KZfaq community can serve as a network tool to look around for you? Take care, I loved this video!

Happy Birthday!!!! As an FYI, the TWSBI Vac 700R #6 nibs fit on the Euphoria! I got a stub 1.1 for my Ice Caramel Latte! Works beautifully! Very sorry to hear about the new “employment status”. Sucks big time. But you are resilient and will come thru in flying colors! ❤️🙋🏼‍♀️🖋

Belated Happy birthday! Too bad about the FWP icecube.

Hey, it's good to see you! I'm happy that you're posting videos.

Also, it’s the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar!

Giulet Pen is about 3 miles from my gouse. Awesome business model. Sorry for the leaks. The Earl Grey looks great. Thank you for sharing all th gifts. Everyone stay safe, warm, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia.

Holy cow, that is so lucky that the FWP bottle didn't crack or break! So sorry about your ink tragedies, but I hope your enjoy the new ink, books, and Earl Grey Benu. 🖋💫

Belated happy birthday. I, too, buy myself birthday presents. I had to smile when you revealed your gift was the Benu Euphoria Earl Grey. That's what I recently bought for my own birthday with a medium nib. I have it inked with Diamine Writers Blood. It is my new favorite pen. I love the slight bit of feedback that I get from the Benu pens, and this one is a very wet writer, which I love, too. I know I did not need another pen, but the moment I got the email from Goulet Pens about this Benu Earl Grey, I had to have it!

Happy Birthday Day

So sorry you are having difficulties, I'm sure you'll find a great opportunity soon. Thanks for showing the random ink sample set, I'm fixing to order my birthday order and am curious if it really is random🤔 enjoy your loot!

looking forward to the new Benu video, thanks for sharing !!

Oh no!! I just ordered some things for my birthday tomorrow. Now I'm scared lol!! 😅

Happy birthday Kerry, your new Benu is stunning, & the sticker with the Dragon holding my favourite ben, is brilliant, Kerry have a great 2024.🇦🇺👍

Happy birthday! I’m glad it was only a minor tragedy. The new Benu is beautiful I was hoping to get that one but it was gone by the time I had funds now I’m contemplating the dragon pen.

Omg! You got the BENU Earl Grey fountain pen, which I coincidentally also want. It is gorgeous. I must wait for the nib I like, and hope they make more of them. My thoughts out for you, losing your employment. Perhaps new opportunity already has your attention, giving your convenience and comfort needed for continuing your work here as @Pens and Tea - and its evolution. Thank you, Kerry, much appreciated updates.

Happy Birthday!! Enjoy the Dresden Files books and your Earl Grey pen. I love my Earl Grey. How does one get the birthday special from Goulet? I don't see a way to add my birthday to my account. In any event, enjoy the pen, the new inks, and the books. Looks like you're ready to curl up on your hoard for the rest of the winter.

What a mess... Love Maruman notebooks. For work I usually get the lined B5 size basic note version. It has a cardboard cover, but it available for just under four euro. The paper is a little bit smoother than the paper in the mnemosyne notebooks.

Thanks to your reviews, I recently got my first Benu... Quickly followed by my 2nd, & a 3rd on the way... Lol. The first was the Euphoria Hallowed Harvest, not my usual color scheme, but it was on sale, so I figured, why not. Then I found a French Poetry on ebay for nearly half price, so THAT happened. It was a broad nib, which is NOT my jam, so I did order a replacement nib unit, but I was pleasantly surprised that the broad nib, when used as reverse, is still buttery smooth & a finer line! & now I also have a Briolette in Milky Way en route from Pure Pens because I'm dying to try their Extra Fine nib. Oh how I wish it was available on the Euphoria & Talisman! Happy birthday from another January baby, book worm & DnD nerd! Mine is next week :) I wish my work team was hiring as we're are all (including our boss) DnD nerds & I could use a fountain pen nerd ally!

Happy Birthday

The Earl Grey Euphoria is my first even Benu and I'm loving it! Its definetly my favorite pen too. (I have it inked with Rominant Industry Earl Grey Tea, cuz ya girl is a sucker for a theme, its actually a really great pairing.)

Mnemosyne was a Greek Titan (Titaness?), one of the offspring of the goddess Gaia and the god Uranus, who was impregnated by her nephew Zeus, who seemed to have made it with freaking EVERYBODY. Mnemosyne was keeper of memory, and her name is pronounced "Nee- MOZ-a-nee", accento on the second syllable. You might be able to get some of the inksplosion out with a damp paper towel or newspaper, changing it as soon as it soaks up anything, lest the paper of the box swells up and turns to mush. Don't ask me how I know this, please. Happiest of all birthdays.

Sorry about your “Tragedies”, but I love the support from the Goulet Pens people, and think by now I should be a stock - holder based on my own habits. Those stickers are awesome too, and when (or if) the Earl Grey comes into availability again, I won’t wait to get one for myself- it looks so nice in your video, thanks for sharing. Enjoy your Birthday :)

Does FWP have waterproof ink for fountain pens?

Nice

Hi Kerry! I was concerned in your previous video when you said you had ordered a Ferris Wheel Press bottle now in winter. I think it turned out pretty well for you and that's a great colour! I ordered 3 FWP bottles along with the new ink carriage directly from them last March, and then we had a late extra-cold snap. In transit, two bottles froze into pucks and completely shattered the glass, but the third one which was packed further inside the box just oozed out around the threads like yours. My family brought the package inside during the day while I was at work, and when I got home (maybe an hour later) the melting ink was leaking through their boxes into the packaging. I was able to decant most of it into empty bottles. Lesson learned for me! 😉 All the best!

Enjoy!!!

Last winter, twice I received a broken bottle of Queen Allium from FWP. They were great to deal with, and I finally opted to get my money back. I got a bottle this summer. I'm never buying a bottle in winter again!! Beautiful Benu pen, I'm eying the Neapolitain one.

My bottle from a different shipper did the same thing.

I love Benu broad Schmidt nibs.

I ordered a couple of Kaweo pens from Knight's Writing Company in/near Ottawa. Graeme there states that he won't ship ink in winter because of the possibility of freezing. When my pens arrived, he had - fortunately - packed the complimentary cartridges in a little bagie. Fortunately, because there was A Leak. The cartridges appeared to have succumbed to the cold, and I thought at first that both cartridges were for the garbage. But I separated them in the bag, and determined that only one seemed to be leaking, so I poured them into a little fruit cup I use for pen cleaning, and lo and behold, it was only the mouth of one cartridge that leaked. It only lost a couple of drops (of COURSE it looks worse the the bag), and it's actually in one of the new pens and working fine. So I empathise with your ink loss, and celebrate with you the vagaries of physics that allowed the bottle and almost all your ink to survive. Bon week-end !

I’m surprised you didn’t get yourself the new BENU Euphoria Draco darling pen!

Major kewl pen

I’m interested in your thoughts on Mnemosyne paper. The paper was so smooth and almost glossy that a few inks I tried would bead up as if I were writing on plastic and the ink would never dry. Has anyone else experienced this with Mnemosyne?

My last bottle I got was Noodler's Polar Black so didn't have it freeze. Which considering we were dealing with below freezing temps was kinda fitting.

Omg, I saw that box and said oh no that is her storied blue, you talk about haw happy you were to get it on your last video because everywhere was out of stock….i hope during the video you tell us they are going to replace it

Happy Birthday Kerry🎉! I’m glad you managed to get the BENU Earl Grey, it’s a stunner. I ordered mine as soon as it launched and I have never done that before, but tea is my tipple of choice so I had to get it. I’ve gone so Far down the BENU rabbit hole, I’ve got 5 now! I started with Scent of Irises -M ( I grow ‘em so that was an obvious choice), Tigers Eye-F, Edelweiss-F , French Poetry -F, and the Earl Grey-F. I’ve declared a moratorium on pen purchases…. We’ll see how long that lasts. At some point I’d really like a gold nib pen but I’m unsure as to either a 14or a 21. Can you tell the difference and is there one you’d suggest? Was that the Storied time Blue that froze? I couldn’t believe it that the bottle didn’t bust. I only have 1 FWP ink & it’s Poison Envy, but I really wanted the Patina Black, but it’s not available, but I’m hoping they bring it back.

Like you, I don’t like glitter in my inks and I’m almost saddened to see that most new ink developments these days are replete with mica or glitter of varying degrees. I guess I’m a purist.

Do you ever like make a bag full of the ink samples you hate and then sell it as a mystery bag? I would TOTES buy that.

Oh by the way, what's the deal with the samples you got from Goulet? Did you buy that or do you get that for your birthday?

Happy birthday anyway...

Happy birthday, Kerry, and I’m glad you’re feeling better. I’m a little confused why your patreon could buy the pen from Goulet but you couldn’t….

Happy Birthday! If you’re a reader who loves dragons, I can highly recommend the seemingly-overhyped novel, Fourth Wing, and its sequel.

They sent me an open bottle of pen flush.

Hiya Kerry I can barely see your mike so seeing you talk into your tootsie pop is highly entertaining. Perhaps you'll one day level up to a hairbrush to sing into. Just jokes 😂

When is Pens and Tea and Dice show going to air??? 🧙🏻‍♂️

Just so you know, that type of mic is intended to be clipped to your collar, holding it like that causes the excessive pops and brittle sounds on your videos. Try clipping it on your collar and you will notice an improvement in your sound quality.

I love that pink ink! 😆❤️ Your videos got me into the world of Benu and now I love them. Hope to get at least one some time in the future. It's snowy and cold here in Sweden too, so I get why the bears are smart and hibernate. 😇🩵🙏🙌🇸🇪