I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[Gloucesterman]

5 hours ago, Anne-Sophie said:

 

It confirms my experience, I believe that the stapled pad with weak tearing indentations, end of stack pages were bound together for notepads exported to the U.S, and manly distributed by big box stores, at bargain prices, with the assumption, that the general American public, didn't know anything about the brand reputation for quality paper.

 

For many years, it seemed to work, but some of those notepads have surfaced in specialty  retailers online shops. That is how I got them.

 

Because of the pandemic, I haven't set a foot in a big box store for a couple of years, I need to check their website to see if they still carry the stapled bound A4 notepads.

 

 

I think the spiral top exist in A4, No. 18. I believe I saw it on the RhodiaPads website, now I have to find a retailer, ideally someone who also sells Herbin inks.

 

Since Herbin and Rhodia have the same U.S distributor, that should not be a problem. 

 

But... the Exaclair catalogue shows a store display of their small 6 ml Herbin bottles, which are perfect samplers.

 

However, most U.S retailers with an online presence, do not sell them or, only sell them in group of 6, which would be great, if the 6 bottles were not in the same color, which defeats the purpose of the sampler size. 

 

It is late, please forgive any spelling mishap.

 

 

 

 

Check out Artist and Crafts"person" - PC corrected!

I know they carry the Rhodia in their stores as well as online. They may offer quantity discounts and the DO offer teacher discounts - IIRC.

Good luck. BTW, they also have a nice selection of other journals and notebooks.

[essayfaire]

On 2/10/2024 at 2:46 PM, Gloucesterman said:

Looks like a Pilot VP and a Pelikan Souvrain(sp?), side by side.

What's the imprint read, can't make it out.

@Misfitis correct, it says Levenger.

 

And yes on the VP, but the Pelikan is a 205.  It would easily hold girthier pens, though.  There's plenty of room.  I think the biggest I've had in it is a Narwhal or Benu.  I don't have any monster pens like KOP.

[SLinkster]

NPD (New Paper Day)

 

Had to go to Joann Fabric (hush, no side-eyes) yesterday. Discovered a "buy one, get one half off" deal on Canson & Strathmore paper so grabbed a couple of sketchpads I don't really need. Then spotted some Fabriano notebooks on the bottom shelf in the cash rack chute; couldn't get close enough to the floor to read the price tag, when I got to the registered I discovered the small A6 was a bit more than I care to spend on such a minute quantity of paper. But with coupons I got the price down to reasonable, so home it came. It has brilliant pink endpapers and a matching elastic. The haptic feedback of the cover is amazing - it reminds me of my old Motorola Nexus 6 phone, the paper is friendly to my EDC pen (a Chinese EF nib with Diamine Damson) so that's my new purse pad.

 

The Cosmo Air Light notebooks I ordered late last week arrived in today's mail (which itself arrived well before noon, could have knocked me over with a dead leaf, I was that shocked). 

 

Oh, and a couple of "Stone Paper" top-ring bound pocket-size notebooks for the "Christmas is coming" box. These were an Amazon buy I threw in to make a same-day shipping minimum for some other thing I didn't need. Really gotta stop doing that...

 

 

[XYZZY]

17 minutes ago, SLinkster said:

Had to go to Joann Fabric (hush, no side-eyes) yesterday.

 

No side-eyes from me.  I always enjoy walking through the local Joann.  I might just wander over there today after reading your post. 😉

[inkstainedruth]

I used to work at a local Jo-Ann's.  I'm ENTITLED to make side-eyes!  I even crept across the river to go to work the Saturday of the "Blizzard of '93" in Pittsburgh a number of years ago (of course at the time I was going "Nobody around here remembers THAT?" when the one of the local news stations was commemorating the anniversary of "Snowmageddon" a few weeks ago... ).  When I moved back down to the Pittsburgh area, I found that location was GONE (and I didn't mind ONE IOTA).  I lost all respect for the woman I thought was the CLUEFUL asst. manager when she fought her way to Fox Chapel from the South Hills that day, JUST to get her 4 hours of weather pay when Corporate allowed us to close early; when the woman from the Singer Dept. went across to a chain restaurant to get lunch, the other ass't manager asked her to bring back food, and she came back going "King's is CLOSED!"  (King's Family Restaurant was normally closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day and open the other 363 days a year).  And then when the Pharmor (now also gone) next to us closed early, we were then able to call corporate and say "Pharmor just closed!"  (I went home and spent the rest of the day up in the attic in my sewing room at that house watching news reports -- DC got something like a half inch of ice on everything -- and they even had several inches of snow in Birmingham, AL -- and the city of Birmingham didn't OWN any snow plow trucks!  

Then the next day, a friend of ours walked up to our house going "This is the first time since I moved down here from New Hampshire that I can use my snowshoes!  But people are staring at me!"  And I said, "Johan, they're not staring at you because you have snowshoes -- they're staring at you because YOU'RE NOT WEARING A COAT!"

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Penguincollector]

I had a coupon for $5 off 2 American Greetings cards and stationery, so I bought my Valentine a card and some blank stationery cards with parrots standing on a wire. 

[SLinkster]

13 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

 

Then the next day, a friend of ours walked up to our house going "This is the first time since I moved down here from New Hampshire that I can use my snowshoes!  But people are staring at me!"  And I said, "Johan, they're not staring at you because you have snowshoes -- they're staring at you because YOU'RE NOT WEARING A COAT!"

 

 

 

Hahahaha priceless!

I relocated to central Texas from Illinois nearly 30 years ago. For the first 10 years here I usually didn't wear more than a sweater and socks with my t-shirt and shorts, even during the "depths of winter". Then I started wearing long pants with my t-shirt, socks and sweaters. I've worked up to wearing long-sleeved t-shirts, sometimes even a turtleneck, with my sweaters, long pants, socks, jacket and wool cap. Being a lady of a certain age brings its wardrobing challenges

[inkstainedruth]

My one brother-in-law and his wife lived for a while in Minneapolis, before moving to Connecticut.  His wife once told me she had to learn to sew her own coats when they lived in MN -- just to put an *extra* inner layer in her winter coats.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[txomsy]

We simply used a layer of news paper when time got too cold (< -10ºC). No sewing. That was when there still were newspapers. I remember we started gym class in secondary school running 4 Km in shorts at ~ -10ºC in winter (you'd run faster to warm up). Below -10ºC we'd be allowed to run with sports suit.

 

Some 25 years ago it still got so cold the newly laid floor tiles in the porch exploded and we had to substitute them for sturdier ones. Nowadays it's rare days we go below 0ºC in winter, maybe -3ºC, so it's often  just long-sleeve shirt and maybe a pullover. But, you know, <irony on> there is no climate change, it is a conspiracy myth <irony off>.

 

Maybe that's my reason for being so appreciative of paper  (even cheap paper) afterwards?

[inkstainedruth]

14 hours ago, txomsy said:

But, you know, <irony on> there is no climate change, it is a conspiracy myth <irony off>.

 

Oh don't get me started on that -- discussions of politics are frowned on around here but I can think of a certain politician who would have made that statement with a straight face -- only without the "<irony on>/<irony off>" tags -- (until it affected his business interests directly, of course... ).  

Let's just say it will be a snowball's day in H-e-double hockey sticks before I EVER vote for that particular candidate for ANY office....  Because I [expletive deleted] KNEW better....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[essayfaire]

15 hours ago, txomsy said:

That was when there still were newspapers

There are.  I still get one.  Don't think I'd want an e-reader on the counter when filling my pens.

[Gloucesterman]

48 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Oh don't get me started on that -- discussions of politics are frowned on around here but I can think of a certain politician who would have made that statement with a straight face -- only without the "<irony on>/<irony off>" tags -- (until it affected his business interests directly, of course... ).  

Let's just say it will be a snowball's day in H-e-double hockey sticks before I EVER vote for that particular candidate for ANY office....  Because I [expletive deleted] KNEW better....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Some time ago a work colleague had a great comment regarding someone else who worked at the company...

"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man (in this case)." I think that quote can be applied to someone without any political reference/  implication.

 

The only quote I think might be better is from "Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. It's the one where Howard Roark, when asked his opinion of the staid, older, much more conservative architect (who is asking the question) "what do YOU think of ME?" (Howard) says to him, "but that's it.I DON'T think of you... at all!"

 

[Misfit]

The Circa Compact paper arrived today. Paper is heavy. 

[Runnin_Ute]

Placed an order from Vanness for four of each of Clairefontaine Neo Deco Constellation and Apica CD11 both in A5 and an order for two Birmingham inks-Guppy and Gerbara. Got free shipping from Vanness as I just hit the $59.00 free shipping threshold.

[Misfit]

@Runnin_Ute I tried twice to get the Constellation cover at Goldspot. They sent what looks like hexagons and the peacock cover notebooks. 
 

I hope you get the Constellation cover. 

[Runnin_Ute]

it's a popular one for sure. The one I am using right now is the Shell pattern, as were the previous two.

[Misfit]

My two Kyoto stationery items together. It’s the Kyoto Travelers Notebook, with the Levenger True Writer Kyoto. 
 

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

My two Kyoto stationery items together. It’s the Kyoto Travelers Notebook, with the Levenger True Writer Kyoto.

 That a cool pairing: the names, the colours, just work.

[Misfit]

I thought so @AmandaW  the pen is from 2006 or so. I’m not sure when the Travelers Notebook was introduced with that cover. They do match with the blue in the pen and notebook cover, plus the copper on the notebook seems to match the pen. 

[inkypete]

Aussie alert!!!!!! Bargain prices here on Apica CD. Haven't bought from this site before.

 

https://pulpaddiction.com.au/collections/apica-notebooks