I love it when I get emails that begin like this: “My name is Cassie, and I’m a notebook addict. I’m sending you some pictures of my collection.” Here’s what Cassie has to say: I love, love, love notebooks. I’ve been scribbling ever since I could hold a pen, and keeping a journal seriously since … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Cassie
This week’s addict blogs at Walking Butterfly, where she shows off some of her journals: She says: “I have filled dozens of personal journals over the years. I kept diaries when I was in school and continued all through college, single life, and early marriage. Then when I was pregnant with my first child I … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Brenda Susan
This week’s addict is Mr. Dan Kelly, a writer who blogs at Gentleman Unafraid and offers us this pile of journals– every one he’s kept since 1986, with consistent daily entries since 1995. That’s some discipline!
2011 is already a few days over and I’ve yet to 100% decide what I’m going to do for a diary. I say “diary” and not “planner,” since I tend to use a paper diary only to record past info on diet, exercise, health, and other little notes, as opposed to noting future events. In … Continue reading No 2011 Diary?
The nice folks at Daycraft recently sent me some more samples of new products from their latest catalog. (See here for my previous Daycraft review.)Â As usual, the designs are colorful and unusual– nothing plain and boring here! I think my favorite is the violin camouflage pattern. I’m not doing a full review this time, … Continue reading Giveaway: New Products from Daycraft
Comfortable Shoes Studio is a seller of handmade journals, notebooks and paintings on ArtFire. I forget how I stumbled across them, but I am glad I did, as they have some very nice-looking notebooks! These little jotters are $7.99 for a set of six, which seems like a good value: Various designs are available. Here’s … Continue reading Handmade Notebooks by Comfortable Shoes Studio
This week’s addict is not just into her own notebooks… She’s also addicted to the journals of others, from Thomas Merton to Frida Kahlo to Kurt Cobain. But as for her own notebooks, here’s what she has to say: What does one write in? There are so many possibilities. I use two sizes of Moleskines … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: ALB Creativity
I featured Kolby Kirk’s hiking journals here a while ago, but more recently, I came across a post on another blog of his, talking about his first journal. I love how he explored his interests in a variety of topics in these wonderful sketches: The journal itself is pretty neat– a spiral bound sketchbook onto … Continue reading Kolby Kirk’s First Journal
The Kolo Essex Travel Book is an interesting hybrid of a Moleskine-type notebook and a Filofax. From the outside, it looks a lot like a Moleskine, but with some important differences. The binding is cloth, with a window in which you can insert your own image. An elastic band holds it shut. On the back, … Continue reading Review: Kolo Essex Travel Book
Time for another look through the mailbag! From BMT: This might come under the “fell off the face of the Earth” dept. In the early sixties, possibly 1960 or 1961 a loose leaf company (Mead?) marketed a failed loose leaf product named “Nifty.” Instead of the conventional rings on the left side, it flipped up … Continue reading From Our Readers