Today, I just feel like giving away some notebooks. What the heck! I’m going to put together a lovely little surprise package for one lucky winner who I’ll randomly select from anyone who comments on this post by the deadline of Friday May 3, 11:59 EST. Feel free to spread the word via social media, … Continue reading Random Giveaway!
Our friends at Lovenotebooks are celebrating the colors of spring! Lovenotebooks carries a wide selection of eco-friendly Paperthinks notebooks and stationery items in all these gorgeous colors. Paperthinks notebooks are made with 100% recycled leather covers with paper with 50% recycled content inside. This week, you can enter to win the Paperthinks prize package pictured … Continue reading Spring Giveaway from Lovenotebooks: Paperthinks!
I received a sample of the Monsieur Notebook quite a long time ago, and in some ways it’s a good thing I hadn’t gotten around to reviewing it until now, as the company is growing fast and has had some interesting recent developments. Monsieur has been in business for about two years, producing hand-finished leather-bound … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Monsieur Notebook
I’ve had this nagging feeling that I’d forgotten to do something… and I had! My Dec. 28 “random notebook giveaway” sort of slipped my mind in all the holiday craziness, but our winners are Cesar– comment #120 Brian Tacik– comment #109 Thanks for all the wonderful comments, everyone!
Pocket Dept is a relatively new brand of notebooks. Here’s the description from their website: Pocket Dept is a line of handy notebooks inspired by vintage stationary and designed to suit every pocket. Each Pocket Dept book is made from the finest writing papers and perfect bound for strength and durability. Designed and manufactured with … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Pocket Dept Notebooks
Many readers will probably be familiar with Jenni Bick Bookbinding— they sell a nice variety of journals and albums that can be personalized. Now, they have a new venture called MoleskineAndMore.com, a site offering customized stamping of Moleskine notebooks! Moleskine does quite a few customized editions, but they’re usually with large companies or institutions like … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Exciting Giveaway and Coupon Code from Jenni Bick!
You probably saw that Moleskinerie is running a logo design contest with a prize of 5000 Euros for the winning design. This wasn’t something I was going to dedicate a post to, so I didn’t really pay that much attention to it, but thanks to an email from a regular reader, I discovered that the … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: How NOT to Promote Your Brand
Here are our 5 winners for the sketchbooks. No one seems to have entered via linking back from a blog post, so I picked one winner from the comments, and two each from Twitter and Facebook: Comment #10 from Dan Twitter: @onymousol and @janelGr Facebook: Shaun Brooke and Diane Buck Thank you everyone! Send … Continue reading Stillman & Birn Winners
The Quiver is a new product made to add handy pen storage to your Moleskine or similarly sized notebook: They come in black or brown leather, sized to fit large or pocket Moleskines. They should also work with Ecosystem or Piccadilly or other hardcover notebooks of the same size, or even a bit larger. Since … Continue reading Win a Quiver Pen Holder!
Arwey is an interesting brand of notebooks you don’t see too often. The company is based in Turkey, but even on my trip to Istanbul, I only saw their notebooks sold in one store. I first discovered them at A.I. Friedman in New York, but they don’t seem to be carried there anymore. However, the … Continue reading Review & Massive Giveaway: Arwey Notebooks