I’ve been in the midst of a lot of changes lately, including moving to a new home. I’ve had to put a lot of stuff in storage since we’re in a smaller space and we’ll be doing renovations, so almost all of my notebooks are now residing in a storage unit, and they’ll be there for about a year, probably. This makes me sad!

I did keep some notebooks with me– all my filled journals and sketchbooks from the last 20 years or so, and a good quantity of blank spare notebooks, as well as my large stack of to-be-reviewed notebooks. But I can’t help feeling a little anxious that I can’t get at other notebooks that I might potentially want to use, or just look at!

I numbered and inventoried all my boxes that went into storage, so I could find all my notebooks if needed, but that might require moving a lot of other stuff that has been stacked on top of them– our amazing movers managed to pack our 75 sq foot storage unit incredibly efficiently, using much of the space all the way to the ceiling. If I tried to dig things out, I’m not sure I’d be able to fit everything back in again! So for the near future, I just have to resign myself to only having maybe a few dozen notebooks to fondle, instead of a few hundred! It’ll be tough but I think I can make it through!