This article kind of made me sigh. I love pretty journal pages as much as the next person but all the super elaborate spreads you see on Instagram can set a dauntingly high standard! There are many other ways to make a journal page beautiful… but if the “Instagram look” is what you’re going for, … Continue reading Instagram-worthy Journaling
They go so well together, don’t they? The notebook below belongs to Mary Richmond, who really brings her nature walk to life in the linked article. Â The sun was still low enough in the sky that it cast a golden glow over and through the trees. The air was fresh scented, the leaves still a … Continue reading Nature and Notebook
This is pretty specialized, but I rather like the look of this notebook! It was designed by chemists with pages that have both lines and a hexagonal pattern, so you can draw molecules neatly. I’m sure it would also be a lot of fun for plain old unscientific doodling! Source: ChemNote: The power of chemistry … Continue reading A Notebook for Chemists
This week’s addict is John Hewitt, who you can find on Instagram at w_john_hewitt. I reposted this image of his sketchbooks on my own Instagram feed recently– I just love all those piled up sketchbooks, and am so impressed at his discipline in daily drawing. From John’s caption: Five years’ worth of sketchbooks. On 2nd … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: John Hewitt
The Endeavor Notebook is an intriguing project on Kickstarter. I love the look of the simple leather cover, and the refills are very handsome on their own. The paper is said to be fountain pen friendly. The attachment system might not be the most quick and easy, but it seems like it would be sturdy, … Continue reading Endeavor Notebook on Kickstarter
An amazing article by Steve Lange, from Rochester Magazine: When my Nana died, a dozen years ago this month, she left me—or I was given—two items as mementos. Her notebook entries cover 73 years, from “June 10, 1933: Married†through Jan. 25, 2006, just a few months before she died. I can’t read the last … Continue reading A Grandmother’s Notebook
Wow, school is barely over and the back-to-school articles are already starting to appear! Some fun notebooks are featured in the linked article, including composition books with donuts on them! See more: 15 Cute Notebooks – 15 Fun Journals
A nice collection of agricultural advertising notebooks, and some reminiscences on how they were used: These pads and pencils were basic record keeping tools for a generation of farmers. One book might contain all of a farmer’s purchases and sales for a year. It might hold entries on all of the cash advanced or credit … Continue reading Royster Fertilizer Notebooks
This week’s addict has a colorful and tidy shelf of notebooks that may be mostly unused… Laken says: Happy #NationalNotebookDay from my shelf of notebooks! Some of them I want to hoard and never write in, but mostly they sit there because I don’t know WHAT to write in them! What do y’all use pretty … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Laken
A few weeks ago, Minnesota-based architect Amber Sausen was scrolling through her old iPhone photos when she found herself momentarily perplexed: “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t remember taking that at all. Huh. What was I thinking? What was I trying to memorialize in this photograph?’†But Sausen, an avid sketcher, says she’s … Continue reading Sketchbooks Help You Remember