Last weekend was the annual Ric Rac Roundup hosted by Bon Bon Atelier here in Kansas City. The event features lots of local artists and craftsman in the nearby parking lot and I got a chance to meet Chuck of Craft Boy Workshop who makes exquisite handbound blank books. I was so smitten I purchased…
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Cavallini Daily Planner
Its never too soon to think about 2012 and your next planner acquisition. Jenni Bick Bookbinding just announced the new Cavallini 2012 Daily Planner is in stock. These substantial leather-covered planners are available in over half a dozen colors with elegantly printed interior pages. There is one page per day with soft grey lines on…
The truly recyclable notepad! This is a ceramic “tablet” that can written upon with a dry-erase marker and used over and over. Love the spiral notebook look but a stray ceramic tile would work just as well. £13.50 (via notonthehighstreet.com)
Holy Cow! Monsieur Notebook Review
Today, I got the chance to review a new series of notebooks from a UK-based company called Monsieur Notebook. These books are sized similarly to an A5 (regular 5.5×8.5”) and an A6 (pocket 4×6”) Moleskine but with real leather covers for just a few dollars more than a comparable sized Moleskine. The books are handmade…
Notebooks Stories recently reviewed the Rubberband brand notebooks. The book that caught my attention was the plain black A5-ish sized book. It has very flexible leather-like covers that sandwiches bright orange plain paper. Rubberband also makes a Japanese-style sewn bound book that combines two different colors of paper stock that is lined with a small…
This notepad from Kokuyo is not just perforated across the top edge… oh, no. This little notepad is perforated all over so that you can clip out sections of notes to save, share or reorganize on a whim. Only the Japanese would think something like this up. 80pp of graph paper just $4.50. Also available…
The latest limited edition offering from Field Notes is the American Tradesman set. This set is all-American, red, white and blue, tried-and-true. The book covers are a true blue with silver metallic lettering and the inside pages feature a no-nonsense gray stock with grid lines. Set comes with a classic carpenter’s pencils in rocket’s red…