By Tina Koyama When I first discovered urban sketching and began documenting my life with sketches, I almost immediately discovered a dilemma. Admiring the works of many sketchers who use this method, I especially loved the concept of putting sketches and writing on the same page. As a lifelong journal writer, I saw the value…
When browsing for paper recently, I was absolutely taken with the Midori Autumn Silk Screen Printed Pads ($7.00-9.50). The designs were beautiful, and the message pad and letter pad (with matching envelopes) called to me. I ended up purchasing the Japanese Maple Message Pad ($7.00) and the Dahlia Letter Pad ($9.50). These top bound pads…
When Ana and Bob designed the Col-o-ring OVERSIZE ($15 each) they had some ideas on how they would use it. But it was more exciting to see how you all use it. Today we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite Instagram posts showing how people make the OVERSIZE work for them! I personally use…
If you have been anywhere within shouting vicinity of me over the last couple of months, you’ll know that upon seeing the new Plotter products, I have been yelling, “It’s a fancy Filofax!” As someone who never abandoned the allure of ring binders like Filofax, I am delighted to see that the planning trends have…
Even though I’ve more or less figured out what planners work best for me, I’m still eager to try new ones when I see them. So when I perused Vanness Pens a few weeks ago, I was intrigued by the Midori 2022 Pocket Diary ($11). Even though I keep many appointments in my electronic calendar,…
It’s been several years since I’ve tried a Paperblanks journal. I used one of their planners for a couple years but moved on to other planning systems and had sort of forgotten about Paperblanks. The most recognizable and notable aspect of Paperblanks notebooks and planners are the beautiful, often antique-inspired covers that they use which…
Good Inkpressions is a notebook company in Spain that is focusing on a wide array of fountain pen friendly notebooks that features well-known papers like Tomoe River and Clairefontaine but also a “new to me” paper called Splendorgel. I was excited to see that Good Inkpressions was stocking Tomoe River and Clairefontaine but I was…
