Our latest addict of the week is Hannah, who blogs at Slightly Lovely. Here’s her stash:
And here’s what she has to say about them:
This is a pile of notebooks gathered from around my bedroom (I’m sure there are more hidden on shelves, in closets & drawers). In this pile, there are spiral notebooks, leather notebooks, [...]
- Nifty
- 10.14.09
- Filofax, My Collection, Personal, 1990s, address, altered, calendar, expensive, Filofax, leather, modifications, modified, pocket size
This is the first Filofax I ever bought, sometime in the early 1990s. I had not been out of college long and Filofaxes still seemed like the kind of expensive yuppie status symbol that I’d scoffed at… but then I got a job in a store that sold them, and I discovered that this pocket [...]
- Nifty
- 08.19.09
- Diary, My Collection, Nostalgia, Scientific, antique, 1945, calendar, Diary, engineering, gilt-edge, leather, maps, Scientific, westinghouse
Here’s another neat little item purchased on EBay:
This is a sub-category of notebooks that I could happily collect: small promotional diaries given out to the employees or business partners of various corporations. I have ones in my collection from Sandoz, GE, and the Harvard Coop, and this Westinghouse one was a great addition. First of [...]
- Nifty
- 07.01.09
- Markings, My Collection, Noted, Places to Buy, Reviews, cahier, cheap, graph, inexpensive, leather, Markings, Moleskine, moleskine alternative, Noted, squared, target
I don’t often go to Target, so when I recently did, I was excited to see what sorts of funky stationery they might offer. They had a nice section of colorful notebooks and office supplies, all at very reasonable prices. But of course, the items I purchased ended up being my usual plain black 3.5 [...]