I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[N1003U]

6 hours ago, MHBru said:

whenever I traveled for work I always littered the house with hidden love notes for my wife to find while I was away.  post it notes or postcards usually.  Then i saw a video from Vanness showing little notecards from E Frances called Little Notes.  They come in several cool designs and are perfect for the aforementioned love notes.  Grabbed two designs.  so yeah.. true to the theme.... pathetic stationery junkie.  (but they are really cool)     E. Frances famous Little Notes®- 85 sweet little cards to be used unsparingly – E. Frances Paper (efrancespaper.com)

Those look very cute and interesting. Thanks for the tip! I need to pick up a few boxes of those…

[Misfit]

I ordered more notebooks from PaperPenguin Co on Etsy. I got notebooks with old Tomoe paper, new Tomoe paper, Cosmo Air paper, and Tomoe that should fit an old DayRunner I held onto from 1993. 
 
I chose A5 size for the new Tomoe River Paper. For the old Tomoe and Cosmo Air, I chose Travelers Notebook regular size. 
 

While I had items in the cart, the seller offered 10% off. I bought notebooks from her last year in July. She was great at communication. I’d recommend her to all of you fellow junkies. 
 

Oh, and my Field Notes Summer edition subscription arrived today. 

Edited July 24, 2021 by Misfit
To add Field Notes

[Misfit]

I placed an order for 2 Colorverse Nebula Note Casual Notebooks. They will be for my birthday later this year. They are spiral bound with tear out pages, so I can use them for letter writing. 

[Misfit]

I put this in the Walmart pickup order because I decided I deserved it. It was $2.08.  I used a Conklin Duragraph with a 1.1mm stub nib. There was show through, but not bleed through. 
 

[Misfit]

No one else has shopped for notebooks? Or lovely paper?

[ParramattaPaul]

24 minutes ago, Misfit said:

No one else has shopped for notebooks? Or lovely paper?

I bought gift wrapping paper.  Does that count?

[mhguda]

I'm about 15 pages into my new Cosmo Air Light notebook that I bought from an Etsy shop that specializes in Japanese paper. The cost, with (no choice) DHL shipping was such that I'll either wait until things are really back to normal (if they ever are) or buy elsewhere and so probably won't be able to get this special size, relatively very narrow notebook that I bought by mistake, but am starting to really like.

Lucky for me I bought four so they will last me a while.

[N1003U]

6 hours ago, Misfit said:

No one else has shopped for notebooks? Or lovely paper?

All. The. Time.

 

For me, the problem is usually finding exactly what I want. Typically, the challenge is finding fountain-pen-friendly paper combined with a desirable notebook design/size/decorative motif.

 

Often (but not always), the notebooks/paper have lovely designs but don’t handle liquid inks too well, or notebooks with known good fountain-pen-paper have boring designs.

 

I am a sucker for travel motifs, especially vintage airline stuff, but those seem difficult to find, especially with acceptable paper.

 

As recently as 15 years ago, some airlines still offered “writing kits” (imprinted stationery, post cards, and envelopes—sort of what one used to (and sometimes still does) find in hotel desk drawers), but my experience is that the paper quality was low.

 

Yes, I am constantly on the lookout for interesting notebooks and/or paper.

[eatandoph]

I recently preordered a B5 68gsm Tomoe River journal from the newly launched Odyssey Notebooks — despite complaining in another thread about the practicality of another (52gsm) Tomoe River journal from the celebrated Paper for Fountain Pens (which I'm currently using). Chances are I won't actually get around to using it for some time after it arrives, but the design looks handsome (I got the black moon cover).

[Misfit]

I bought yet another notebook, a Miquel Rius after seeing a sheet the awesome @amberleadavis sent me. It has a striped cover, 90 gsm paper with colored edges, and perforated sheets that I can use for letters. 
 

I had rewards dollars to get the price down to $7.55

 

[amberleadavis]

50 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I bought yet another notebook, a Miquel Rius after seeing a sheet the awesome @amberleadavis sent me. It has a striped cover, 90 gsm paper with colored edges, and perforated sheets that I can use for letters. 
 

I had rewards dollars to get the price down to $7.55

 

 

 

OOOOO I'm so happy you liked it!  The MR paper is some of my favorite and these notebooks are my very favorite for notetaking.

[Misfit]

That’s good to know @amberleadavis  I saw one with a constellation kind of cover that I added to my wish list. Plus one with 8 subjects, so 8 different colored edges that looks pretty cool. Once I try the paper, I’ll know how many to get. The only downside is the two holes, but I won’t let those bother me. I had to check your sheet to see if it had them. 
 

Sometimes I want to grab a notebook for a letter, because it’s quicker than Tomoe River loose sheets and line guides. 

[amberleadavis]

On 7/29/2021 at 10:34 AM, eatandoph said:

I recently preordered a B5 68gsm Tomoe River journal from the newly launched Odyssey Notebooks — despite complaining in another thread about the practicality of another (52gsm) Tomoe River journal from the celebrated Paper for Fountain Pens (which I'm currently using). Chances are I won't actually get around to using it for some time after it arrives, but the design looks handsome (I got the black moon cover).

 

Welcome aboard!  We'd also love to see it in action once you are using it.

[amberleadavis]

4 minutes ago, Misfit said:

That’s good to know @amberleadavis  I saw one with a constellation kind of cover that I added to my wish list. Plus one with 8 subjects, so 8 different colored edges that looks pretty cool. Once I try the paper, I’ll know how many to get. The only downside is the two holes, but I won’t let those bother me. I had to check your sheet to see if it had them. 
 

Sometimes I want to grab a notebook for a letter, because it’s quicker than Tomoe River loose sheets and line guides. 

 

I look forward to hearing what you think.

[Misfit]

2 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I look forward to hearing what you think.

I need to add to your CRV sheets, including the MR paper. Family and the Olympics are distracting me from my pens, paper and inks. 

[inkypete]

Ripper deals here for one day - Aussies jump on this.

 

https://www.petersofkensington.com.au/Public/Peters-Daily-Deal.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6459

 

[A Smug Dill]

This morning, I just ordered another >6,000 pages of A5, (mostly) dot grid, fountain pen friendly paper, I supposed to use primarily as scribbling and doodling pads.

 

Studio Milligram has been trying to get rid of its 2021-dated paper products (e.g. diaries, calendars) through its outlet store since February. At first, I bought four of its spiral-bound^† 2021 ‘Non-Diary Daily’ A5 notebooks, each containing 432 pages of “80gsm Taiwanese milled maple paper” with sufficiently unobtrusive calendar and date markings above dot grid pages, for A$5 apiece. In April, ten more for A$3 apiece. The price stayed fixed, and the product continued to be available, all through until at least the end of July. (I lost interested in checking its web site every other day looking for bargain inks; there hadn't been any new ones added for a while.)

 

Last night, I saw that the price has dropped to A$2, so I sent an email asking how many were actually in stock; there was no free delivery offer irrespective of an order's total value, so I wanted to make sure it was worth my while and I wasn't paying more in postage than the price of the payload, given the outlet store's policy of just silently cancelling any part of an order it cannot fulfil at practically the same time as dispatching the order, without consulting the customer or giving him/her the opportunity to modify the order or cancel it altogether if it cannot be fulfilled as originally submitted. I got a prompt reply, a few minutes after 9AM, that there were still fourteen units.

 

Very well, I'll help them out and take all of the remaining stock off their hands.  I also took all of the available stock of their 80-page A6 hardcover notebooks with Fabriano paper, for A$2 per pack of two; that is the only Studio Milligram product I've come across that doesn't use its own-branded Taiwanese milled paper, so for a buck each I was happy to give it a try.

 

So, now I'm going to have a stash of >12,000 pages, or 6,000 sheets, of dot-grid scribble paper bound in thick volumes with wire combs, that I can easily tear off.

 

Thank you, @inkypete, for posting the Peter's of Kensington daily deal! I did see it this morning, a few minutes before I pulled the trigger on the Studio Milligram products. It's an awesome price for the A4 notebooks.

 

 

^† The binding isn't actually a continuous spiral, but a wire with parallel double-wire ‘teeth’.  I think it is neater, and a more premium for it, but it does make it possible for the thick cardboard back cover to slide out of the comb cleanly, either inadvertently or by deliberate user action.

[inkypete]

23 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

This morning, I just ordered another >6,000 pages of A5, (mostly) dot grid, fountain pen friendly paper, I supposed to use primarily as scribbling and doodling pads.

 

Studio Milligram has been trying to get rid of its 2021-dated paper products (e.g. diaries, calendars) through its outlet store since February. At first, I bought four of its spiral-bound^† 2021 ‘Non-Diary Daily’ A5 notebooks, each containing 432 pages of “80gsm Taiwanese milled maple paper” with sufficiently unobtrusive calendar and date markings above dot grid pages, for A$5 apiece. In April, ten more for A$3 apiece. The price stayed fixed, and the product continued to be available, all through until at least the end of July. (I lost interested in checking its web site every other day looking for bargain inks; there hadn't been any new ones added for a while.)

 

Last night, I saw that the price has dropped to A$2, so I sent an email asking how many were actually in stock; there was no free delivery offer irrespective of an order's total value, so I wanted to make sure it was worth my while and I wasn't paying more in postage than the price of the payload, given the outlet store's policy of just silently cancelling any part of an order it cannot fulfil at practically the same time as dispatching the order, without consulting the customer or giving him/her the opportunity to modify the order or cancel it altogether if it cannot be fulfilled as originally submitted. I got a prompt reply, a few minutes after 9AM, that there were still fourteen units.

 

Very well, I'll help them out and take all of the remaining stock off their hands.  I also took all of the available stock of their 80-page A6 hardcover notebooks with Fabriano paper, for A$2 per pack of two; that is the only Studio Milligram product I've come across that doesn't use its own-branded Taiwanese milled paper, so for a buck each I was happy to give it a try.

 

So, now I'm going to have a stash of >12,000 pages, or 6,000 sheets, of dot-grid scribble paper bound in thick volumes with wire combs, that I can easily tear off.

 

Thank you, @inkypete, for posting the Peter's of Kensington daily deal! I did see it this morning, a few minutes before I pulled the trigger on the Studio Milligram products. It's an awesome price for the A4 notebooks.

 

 

^† The binding isn't actually a continuous spiral, but a wire with parallel double-wire ‘teeth’.  I think it is neater, and a more premium for it, but it does make it possible for the thick cardboard back cover to slide out of the comb cleanly, either inadvertently or by deliberate user action.

How do you find Millgram's Taiwanese paper? I don't like it. It isn't 100% FP friendly. I find it writes a little wider than normal. Its not bad (like Moleskine) but it isn't as good as they say.

[A Smug Dill]

13 minutes ago, inkypete said:

How do you find Millgram's Taiwanese paper? I don't like it. It isn't 100% FP friendly.

 

There is the occasional bit of bleed-through, but not as prone as Paperblank 100gsm paper (in Flexis notebooks). It has a little more show-through than I like, but I suspect it'd be somewhat tolerable for reading over pages that have been written on both sides, though it may bug me more while I'm writing on the reverse side of a page in the first place. As cheap scribble paper, or for practising my handwriting or drawing techniques — especially if I'm only going to use one side, before ripping it out and tossing it in the bin — I think it's great, especially when it cost me so little per sheet.

[ParramattaPaul]

50 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

This morning, I just ordered another >6,000 pages of A5, 

I'm not sure I'd live long enough to get through 6,000 sheets of paper of any size.

 

Good luck to ya'.