This week’s addict was blogging about a list of things she wanted to do before her 31st birthday. Among them:

#14. Join a STATIONERY ADDICTS support group.

Here’s her story about why:

I have come to terms with the fact I have not yet outgrown the childhood nickname “Paper freak” – dubbed so by my loving siblings….

My parents knew they could get my heart racing by tossing me a legal pad or even those blank pads without the cover that serve as quick “phone-message-takers.” Birthdays were easy for them. No need to think about dolls or such (though I got one of those too occasionally), coloring books were fine, but it was the journals that made me so excited I could jump out of my skin. They once told me they caught me sleepwalking and they said I kept stooping to scoop up some imaginary thing and then walk back upstairs to bed and I don’t remember the dream but I can bet good money, I was cradling my paper.

Once, one of my sisters got me a simple one with a brown cover and a lock on my thirteenth birthday and the way I acted, one would think it was lined in gold. Then, another year as an adult, another sister gave me a more grown up version. It was a hand-made hardcover journal with sewn tan pages held together by bamboo! It was an absolute beauty but I knew she got some sick pleasure in watching a grown woman act like a lunatic over a dead tree.

That was when my journal collecting began in earnest….

Read more at Days 3 and 4 – Buy Just ONE LAST Journal (#13) Join A Stationery Addicts Support Group (#14) | 31 Days to Age 31.  She also has a post about art journaling, and
you can see more of Wandeka’s artwork at wandekagayle.com.

Happy belated 31st birthday, Wandeka! Welcome to your support group!