Notebook Addict of the Week (Again): Tina Koyama

Tina was a Notebook Addict of the Week back in 2014, when she showed us her collection of hand-bound sketchbooks. She is still a dedicated Urban Sketcher, and has also done quite a bit of traveling. This time, Tina shares her collection of travel journals:

[Above] is a photo of the whole collection: several Moleskines (including one City notebook that was nice in concept but didn’t have enough freeform space for writing), a few Field Notes for shorter trips, and several Rhodia Rhodiarama notebooks. The latter is probably still my favorite, although the slightly larger format of the Field Notes Signature is very nice (I just wish it had a few more pages). The Hello Kitty notebook was my first travel journal, used on my first trip to Japan (and my first time outside the US). Disappointingly, it’s the least interesting of all my travel journals. I guess I was so overwhelmed with being in a new country that I hardly wrote anything! Since then, however, I have been to many other countries and cities, and I learn more about how to be a better travel journal keeper each time I travel.

“When I ran out of pages toward the end, I started sketching on ticket stubs and receipts.”
“My travel journal in Brazil was a Rhodia Rhodiarama notebook.”

On Tina’s blog, you can read her review of the pocket Rhodiarama notebook as well as see more details and photos of her Portugal Travel Journal. Her Instagram (@miatagrrl) is also a constant source of sketch inspiration!

Many thanks to Tina for continuing to share her notebook (and sketching) addiction with us!

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