I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[txomsy]

A set of stationary related items that belonged to Marie Curie (inkwell, ruler, paper weight, paper knife... from the Marii Sklodowskieij Curii Muzeum in Warsaw.

 

[txomsy]

Back from Poland, I have to say, it is a most dangerous place for the pockets of stationary junkies. One can find lots of notebooks, pens, pencils and books almost everywhere.

 

This is from a souvenir shop in Warsaw. Gives you an idea of how pervasive temptation is.

 

In Krakow, at the Issac Sinagogue, I couldn't help but fall in for a "Liber ad scribendum (writing book)", a notebook published by Austeria, where blank pages are interspersed with historic black and white pictures from a city, in the one I choose, from Warsaw. Well, that was the one I choose, but there were more about different cities (and in different languages).

 

Mine costed me 44 zloti, so not something I'd call expensive. The paper, so far, seems to be fairly good for FP writing, think, uncoated, rough enough to provide feedback yet not too much to be obtrusive. It has 100 sheets, i.e. about 200 pages, and besides the pictures, it comes with an index at the end that allows one to attach an entry to each page.

 

 

 

 

I think that what drove me to this one, other than being in Poland, was the picture of Warsaw after WWII. Coupled with the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, it gave me much food for thought and inspiration for writing in these seemingly pre-WWIII-looking times.

 

 

Now, on another note, back in Warsaw, I found this other notebook I couldn't resist getting. In this case for other reasons: first, it has a gorgeous hard cover, is very thick (320 sheets, 640 pages), which promises long writing sessions, it has a 4-5mm grid with marked margins in all four sides, and -this was what finally convinced me-, made in Ukraine by Bourgeois. And at a nice price of 31 zlotis.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gloucesterman]

56 minutes ago, txomsy said:

Back from Poland, I have to say, it is a most dangerous place for the pockets of stationary junkies. One can find lots of notebooks, pens, pencils and books almost everywhere.

 

This is from a souvenir shop in Warsaw. Gives you an idea of how pervasive temptation is.

 

In Krakow, at the Issac Sinagogue, I couldn't help but fall in for a "Liber ad scribendum (writing book)", a notebook published by Austeria, where blank pages are interspersed with historic black and white pictures from a city, in the one I choose, from Warsaw. Well, that was the one I choose, but there were more about different cities (and in different languages).

 

Mine costed me 44 zloti, so not something I'd call expensive. The paper, so far, seems to be fairly good for FP writing, think, uncoated, rough enough to provide feedback yet not too much to be obtrusive. It has 100 sheets, i.e. about 200 pages, and besides the pictures, it comes with an index at the end that allows one to attach an entry to each page.

 

 

 

 

I think that what drove me to this one, other than being in Poland, was the picture of Warsaw after WWII. Coupled with the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, it gave me much food for thought and inspiration for writing in these seemingly pre-WWIII-looking times.

 

 

Now, on another note, back in Warsaw, I found this other notebook I couldn't resist getting. In this case for other reasons: first, it has a gorgeous hard cover, is very thick (320 sheets, 640 pages), which promises long writing sessions, it has a 4-5mm grid with marked margins in all four sides, and -this was what finally convinced me-, made in Ukraine by Bourgeois. And at a nice price of 31 zlotis.

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice looking books. Glad they are FP friendly.

[txomsy]

Gives it another dimension. I mean, being a "sad, pathetic, stationary junkie".

 

 

This is a picture of Princess Marshal Lubomirska's Apartments, the anteroom, at the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw. Izabela Lubomirska, neé Czartoryska (1735-1816), a great lover or art, owned Wilanow between 1773 and 1799. The 18th century secretary desk from the Aubusson manufacture in France is stuffed with lots of notebooks, rolls, and all sorts of paraphernalia shows the like for stationery affects higher nobility and laypeople alike, and as much 250 years ago as now.

[txomsy]

Other exhibits from the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw.

 

A collection of wax seals, Sobieski's hours surrounded by pigments, a bundle of feather pens, an inkwell and a sharpener knife.

 

[txomsy]

And finally, from the Natural History Museum of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the studio of a naturalist (sorry I don't remember the name, maybe some Pole member of FPN can supplement it).

 

 

[essayfaire]

@txomsyI had no idea Poland had so many tempting stationery supplies.  I never had Poland on my list of places I would like to visit, but after seeing all your pictures I'm rather intrigued.

 

I am starting to use a new notebook by Oasis today for a class.  I don't recall buying it - maybe it came in a grab bag.  It has this neat feature that the lines are broken into very lightly outlined boxes to make it more like a dot-journal(but with the dots much smaller).  I will keep y'all updated.  

 

The cover is actually matte black with texture, but I don't think the camera knows what to make of it.  It's interesting that it didn't have the same problem with the inner cover that has white print.

[txomsy]

47 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

@txomsyI had no idea Poland had so many tempting stationery supplies.  I never had Poland on my list of places I would like to visit, but after seeing all your pictures I'm rather intrigued.

 

I am starting to use a new notebook by Oasis today for a class.  I don't recall buying it - maybe it came in a grab bag.  It has this neat feature that the lines are broken into very lightly outlined boxes to make it more like a dot-journal(but with the dots much smaller).  I will keep y'all updated.  

 

The cover is actually matte black with texture, but I don't think the camera knows what to make of it.  It's interesting that it didn't have the same problem with the inner cover that has white print.

Oh, my. That is way too cool!

[N1003U]

11 hours ago, txomsy said:

Gives it another dimension. I mean, being a "sad, pathetic, stationary junkie".

 

 

This is a picture of Princess Marshal Lubomirska's Apartments, the anteroom, at the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw. Izabela Lubomirska, neé Czartoryska (1735-1816), a great lover or art, owned Wilanow between 1773 and 1799. The 18th century secretary desk from the Aubusson manufacture in France is stuffed with lots of notebooks, rolls, and all sorts of paraphernalia shows the like for stationery affects higher nobility and laypeople alike, and as much 250 years ago as now.

That is a beautiful piece of furniture, and quite practical. It gives me some ideas...  

[amberleadavis]

15 hours ago, txomsy said:

A set of stationary related items that belonged to Marie Curie (inkwell, ruler, paper weight, paper knife... from the Marii Sklodowskieij Curii Muzeum in Warsaw.

 

 

 

DANG that is super cool.

[amberleadavis]

14 hours ago, txomsy said:

Back from Poland, I have to say, it is a most dangerous place for the pockets of stationary junkies. One can find lots of notebooks, pens, pencils and books almost everywhere.

 

This is from a souvenir shop in Warsaw. Gives you an idea of how pervasive temptation is.

 

In Krakow, at the Issac Sinagogue, I couldn't help but fall in for a "Liber ad scribendum (writing book)", a notebook published by Austeria, where blank pages are interspersed with historic black and white pictures from a city, in the one I choose, from Warsaw. Well, that was the one I choose, but there were more about different cities (and in different languages).

 

Mine costed me 44 zloti, so not something I'd call expensive. The paper, so far, seems to be fairly good for FP writing, think, uncoated, rough enough to provide feedback yet not too much to be obtrusive. It has 100 sheets, i.e. about 200 pages, and besides the pictures, it comes with an index at the end that allows one to attach an entry to each page.

 

 

 

 

I think that what drove me to this one, other than being in Poland, was the picture of Warsaw after WWII. Coupled with the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, it gave me much food for thought and inspiration for writing in these seemingly pre-WWIII-looking times.

 

 

Now, on another note, back in Warsaw, I found this other notebook I couldn't resist getting. In this case for other reasons: first, it has a gorgeous hard cover, is very thick (320 sheets, 640 pages), which promises long writing sessions, it has a 4-5mm grid with marked margins in all four sides, and -this was what finally convinced me-, made in Ukraine by Bourgeois. And at a nice price of 31 zlotis.

 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, txomsy said:

 

 

 

WOW WOW WOW

[A Smug Dill]

10 hours ago, essayfaire said:

It has this neat feature that the lines are broken into very lightly outlined boxes to make it more like a dot-journal(but with the dots much smaller).

 

Ha! I got this one from my local Daiso maybe three weeks ago:

 

If I recall correctly, there's also a 6mm-ruled version in the same format.

[essayfaire]

13 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Ha! I got this one from my local Daiso maybe three weeks ago:

 

If I recall correctly, there's also a 6mm-ruled version in the same format.

That's pretty neat, too!  How's the paper? I'm finding the paper in mine a bit slicker than I would prefer.

[A Smug Dill]

6 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

That's pretty neat, too!  How's the paper? I'm finding the paper in mine a bit slicker than I would prefer.

 

I haven't written in it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as what you have there. I bought it mainly for the very narrow trisection horizontal ruling, so as to test how small I could write using my finest nibs. The 6mm version of this notebook would have even finer ruling, of course; and I'm of two minds about getting one of those as well. 7mm trisected makes 2.33mm, and so is a good approximation of horizontally fitting two lines of writing into every row on 5mm dot grid paper.

[Misfit]

This arrived today. I won’t be using it for awhile.  The color is Nordic Blue. 
 

[essayfaire]

16 hours ago, Misfit said:

This arrived today. I won’t be using it for awhile.  The color is Nordic Blue. 
 

Nice! Does extra-low transparency mean thick paper, or more opaque than one would expect for its thickness?

[Misfit]

@essayfaire I don’t know what it means. The paper in this one is 120g vs 80g in the other Leuchtturm notebooks. I won’t be using it soon, unfortunately. 

[essayfaire]

 @MisfitThat means it's probably thicker paper, like in my Ottergami.  I like the Ottergami but the thicker paper make it too heavy to be a journal I would carry about.  The paper is nice for writing, though.

[webgeckos]

I found translucent sticky notes on Amazon. Also found them as 1 little stack for $3.00 each on Etsy (way over priced.) I bought the 600 3x3. They used to ship in a tidy cardstock box and now you get them as a sleeve. 

[dragondazd]

33 minutes ago, webgeckos said:

I found translucent sticky notes on Amazon. Also found them as 1 little stack for $3.00 each on Etsy (way over priced.) I bought the 600 3x3. They used to ship in a tidy cardstock box and now you get them as a sleeve. 

What kind of pen do you like to use on these?