- Nifty
- 03.01.10
- Fun & Weird, Mead, My Collection, Nostalgia, 3x5, childhood, doctor who, dymaxion, handmade, maps, modified, pen-tab, spiral, vernon mcmillan
I found this batch of notebooks when I was home for Christmas– I guess I’d missed them on all previous sweeps of my parents’ house. It’s an odd assortment, from when I was in junior high school through my first post-college years when I was living at home again for a little while. Most of [...]
A while back, a reader named Gil wrote to ask for help in finding an elusive notebook. I’m stumped, so I’m turning the question over to all you other notebook fans! Gil says: “i’ve been trying desperately to locate any surviving specimens of a spiral notebook i used as a junior high student in 1968-1970. [...]
Via The Rag & Bone Blog, a lovely altered Moleskine:
- 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 [...]
This is a strange example of my notebook obsession. I took two spiral notebooks, removed the spirals, and then combined the pages into one thicker notebook with a taped spine. I probably coated the edges of the pages with rubber cement under the tape, and they are still held in quite well. The lines of [...]