@awelfle according to @kikkerland, the three sizes are 3.5×6, 5.75×8.25 and 8.75×12.5" in reply to awelfle # Uniball Style-Fit arrived from @Jetpens NICE! # @dowdyism @DIYSara I got a silver barrel, w/ black, blue-black, violet, green and red inks. It looks like a little rocket! in reply to dowdyism # Question: are we living in … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-11
An interesting story I stumbled across: Retired colonel sees a rich future in hardbound print: The Book Factory produces custom books, lab notebooks, log books, journals. DAYTON — Don’t tell Andrew Gilmore that print and high-tech can’t be married. As president of the Book Factory, Gilmore presided over the wedding ceremony. Gilmore, 54, is a … Continue reading A Retired Colonel Makes Great Notebooks
This has to be the strangest, most specific use of a notebook I’ve ever heard about: Clément Gaujal, a customer quality representative for Nissan who grew up in Paris, recalled that his mother had a tenuous grasp of batch size when it came to lentils, and often ended up serving their leftovers for three or … Continue reading Logging Lentil Leftovers
If you’re impressed by Okami’s 37 notebooks, wait til you see all her pens! Read more at her blog, Whatever.
If things look a little weird around here over the next few days, it’s because I upgraded to a new version of WordPress and also have some design changes in the works. Let me know if anything seems broken!
How sad! Seen on the Brownstoner forums: June 30, 2009 Lost and Found? (Red Moleskine) So … riding my bike home last night I got bounced on by a bunch of kids on Franklin Avenue near Willoughby. Someone found most of my stuff down a stairwell the next morning but my … * Red Cowon … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Mugged
Photographing 7 notebooks. # It would be nice if my blog would work so I could post some of these photos! Arrgghhh! # Just bought a Pilot Varsity fountain pen. It took me a while to find any inexpensive fountain pens in local stores! # A few days ago, dreamhost problems with my blog. Yesterday … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-04
I’ve been intrigued by the Leuchtturm brand of notebooks ever since spotting them online, I forget where. As of a few months ago, they didn’t have a US distributor, but they are now working with Kikkerland, and their products are starting to show up at retailers, including Journaling Arts. All products listed here.
Who knew? I was already familiar with JD’s excellent blog Get Rich Slowly, but I didn’t know he was a notebook addict: Read more here, or view the annotated Flickr image here.
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 … Continue reading Notebooks at Target: Markings and Noted