Notebook Addict of the Week: Dillon

Dillon sent me a whole bunch of photos of his collection… actually, half his collection, since the rest is being stored at home while he’s studying abroad for a year. I’m impressed that he brought so many with him!

In the first picture, the bottom row is empty notebooks, and the top are notebooks that I have filled or am in the progress of filling.
In the second and third picture, you have a notebook I made myself. Free advertising for Starbucks, I ‘spose, haha. Its the first Coptic stitch binding I’ve tried, so its a bit loose, unfortunately.
The fourth picture is one of two school notebooks for kids I got while I was in Bolivia in May. Each one has a description of a battle on the front and back covers.
I filled up a Moleskine pocket cahier with notes from a class I took on leadership from a retired Major General teaching at the University of Oklahoma. One of the best classes I’ve ever taken!
In picture 6 and 7, there’s the sketchbook I’m filling up with my favorite quotes. Its open to a page filled with quotes from a really good book I just finished called “The Voyage of the Elephant”.
Pictures 9-15 are from the Peanuts Moleskine I started around May 17th. I named it “Viajero” orÂ TravelerÂ for obvious reasons… I’ve had a busy summer! There are pages from Bolivia, from a weekend long cycling festival in Tulsa, and from 2 different cycling trips I took: one to Mount Scott, in Oklahoma, and 2 from a 500 mile, 6 day ride down the eastern coast of Florida that I just finished a couple weeks ago. The last page is from an Invisible Children conference called 4th Estate. Invisible Children is a non-profit dedicated to stopping a militia called the Lords Resistance Army in central Africa, whose modus operandi is abducting children as young as 5 or 6 in each village they attack and forcing them to fight as child soldiers. I bring that up because at the conference they gave us the notebooks in picture 16…
I geeked out tremendously when I saw that they gave us 4th Estate stamped notebooks. The cover is a really soft, almost suede-like material. Even cooler is whats inside the notebook- a few of the pages are already filled, for instance in the second to last picture the drawings are a sort of brainstorming of the 4th Estate logo, which is really cool because it shows the thought and detail that went into its design. As in the last picture, some of the pages have poems, quotes, and excerpts that were inspiring to the Invisible Children staff. We definitely needed notebooks, too- they had a ton of amazing speakers and sessions lined up during the conference. If you want to learn more about IC, there’s their site invisiblechildren.com. I’ve also set up a site that has some information and updates about the conflictÂ and my fundraising efforts for Invisible Children, DillonCarroll.com.