It’s been quite a while since I’ve reviewed any notebooks from Leuchtturm… but thanks to the good people at Pen Chalet, I’ve got some more recent samples to take a look at! Leuchtturm has become a widely available brand in the US, and like Moleskine, they seem to have expanded their product line by introducing … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Leuchtturm Notebooks from Pen Chalet
It’s fun to review notebook products that are a little outside what I normally use, so I’m grateful to the makers of Off.Lines for sending me these free samples: Off.Lines is designed to be a handy system for “capturing thoughts and ideas on the go for later processing.” Each notepad is small enough to slip … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Off.Lines Notebooks
This notebook was a gift from a friend who visited Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam several years ago. I’m not sure which of those countries it was purchased in. I’m sorry to say this kind of notebook gift always makes me a little sad! People who know me well are aware that I’m always scribbling things … Continue reading Notebook from Southeast Asia: Giveaway!
Central Crafts is a family-run business based in the UK, offering a variety of journals and photo albums, as well as other stationery, gifts and craft items. They have a wide line of leather covered journals made in Italy, and they provided me with a free sample of the “tiny” size Firenze Classico Wrap Journal, … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Leather Journal from Central Crafts
Castelli Italy recently provided me with a lovely assortment of their latest products. (Also see my last review of Castelli notebooks from 2014.) My first impression was “elegant.” The dark colors and black and gold packaging really look snazzy, the stationery equivalent of an formal evening gown. As with an evening gown, some people may … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Castelli Notebooks
I am a book lover, so these Manuscript Notebooks totally caught my eye. They’ve taken beautiful retro book cover art and used it for the covers of these softcover notebooks: The notebooks are a single signature of pages, with stitched spine. The 3.5 x 5.5″ sizing is comparable to Field Notes, Moleskine Cahier and other … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Manuscript Notebooks
Today I’m finally doing a long overdue review of a Denik notebook. I’d first noticed this brand quite a while ago, due to their colorful point of purchase display, which I saw first at a booth at either the BookExpo convention or the NY NOW Gift Show at the Javits Center, or perhaps in a store in Brooklyn, I forget which. But wherever it was, the display was hard to miss due to the broad array of vibrant cover designs. I was thrilled to receive a free sample to review from Denik.
So many great responses to this post! I loved hearing from you all. I decided to increase the number of winners from 5 to 7! Here are the winning comments: # 8 Judy H: First, being in Helena, MT there is not much ‘shopping’ for notebooks here. So I read to find out what I … Continue reading Random Giveaway Winners!
It’s clean-out time! Talk to me about notebooks, people. Use the comments on this post, and/or Twitter posts containing “@notebookstories random giveaway” to tell me something about why you read Notebook Stories, why you love notebooks, what you write or draw in your notebooks, etc. I’ll pick 5 favorite responses from entries received before the … Continue reading Random Giveaway!
I was really excited when I heard that Stillman & Birn were expanding their product line to include softcover sketchbooks, especially when I saw that a pocket sized version was available. There are so many options out there for hardcover sketchbooks, and so many pocket notebooks, but these really fill a niche in terms of … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Stillman & Birn Softcover Sketchbooks