Central Crafts is a family-run business based in the UK, offering a variety of journals and photo albums, as well as other stationery, gifts and craft items. They have a wide line of leather covered journals made in Italy, and they provided me with a free sample of the “tiny” size Firenze Classico Wrap Journal, … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Leather Journal from Central Crafts
I stumbled across these notebooks via Notizbuchblog.de and love the concept! They are blank journals with various pages of full-color illustrations and information interspersed, so you can learn about a subject while making your own notes about it. The series includes Astronomy, Weather, Butterflies (due February 2018), Home, and Trees. When I first saw the … Continue reading Observer’s Notebooks
Castelli Italy recently provided me with a lovely assortment of their latest products. (Also see my last review of Castelli notebooks from 2014.) My first impression was “elegant.” The dark colors and black and gold packaging really look snazzy, the stationery equivalent of an formal evening gown. As with an evening gown, some people may … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Castelli Notebooks
What a great story! Bhintuna “Jya poo” couldn’t find the kind of notebooks she wanted in Nepal, so she started a company to make them. Bhav has now been in business for 3 years. When Bhintuna started looking for the kind of stationery that she often stumbled upon on the internet, she realised that the … Continue reading Bhav Notebooks from Nepal
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been seeing Shinola notebooks for sale in more and more places. Some stores have a big wooden display rack exclusively for this brand. Shinola is best known for their watches, but they also make bicycles and leather goods. They are also renowned for their commitment to helping revive … Continue reading Review: Shinola Notebook
I am a book lover, so these Manuscript Notebooks totally caught my eye. They’ve taken beautiful retro book cover art and used it for the covers of these softcover notebooks: The notebooks are a single signature of pages, with stitched spine. The 3.5 x 5.5″ sizing is comparable to Field Notes, Moleskine Cahier and other … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Manuscript Notebooks
I recently watched the movie Still Alice. It’s a very sad movie! But it did have an interesting notebook moment. Alice (Julianne Moore) has a daughter (Kristen Stewart), who keeps a journal. From the glimpse of it onscreen, it seems to be one of these Apica notebooks: I did a post on notebooks in movies … Continue reading Notebook in the Movie “Still Alice”
There’s a notebook for everyone, including sloth lovers: Sloth Trio Notebooks at Francesca’s
This beautiful notebook was spotted in a store by a sharp-eyed family member who knows I’m always interested in anything unusual from the stationery aisle! The cover features actual embroidery: You can buy one here. Galison also offers a lot of other colorful journal designs!
This sounds like an interesting exhibit, at the Concord Museum in Massachusetts: This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal. “The show centers on the journal Thoreau kept throughout his life and its importance in understanding the essential Thoreau. More than twenty of Thoreau’s journal notebooks are shown along with letters and manuscripts, books from … Continue reading Exhibition Featuring Henry David Thoreau’s Journals