Stationery lovers ... psst, over here to share your suppliers.

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I need some new suppliers to support my habit. Where, other than Paperchase and Artbox, can I get notebooks, sticky notes and other supplies that will make you sigh with contentment? I need a fix ...

The Faber Castell ones are permanent too.

I only have black Sharpies. Maybe I should be investigating the coloured ones....... (sits on hands to avoid driving to Hobbycraft and paying over inflated prices for them)

Ah - permanent pens and DD who is currently incapable of colouring without getting pen all over her hands, face and most of the kitchen don't really mix.

So I had better add that box set of Faber Castell pens to my wishlist instead of to the DCs ones, then.

Good idea. DS2 is 8 so fairly trustworthy now. At 5 or 6 he wasn't putting the lids on properly and wouldn't have been allowed near my lovely pens!

I did a note book making course just before Christmas. That was fun - make your own lovely stationery. A bit time consuming though and, it has to be said, by the time you have bought the materials, not that cheap either.

Inspired by this thread, yesterday I bought a card-corner cutter. It cuts the corners off business cards so now all mine have rounded edges. I am in heaven. I haven't had such a stationery high in quite some time.

And when I was doing my intravenous dealing in my posts above, I forgot to tell you about the crocodile exercise book cover I have from Pickett [totally pwnthing this thread emoticon].

I am properly devastated that someone has their own binding machine. That's just showing off, that is.

I love this thread.

Can't get out of Paperchase without a bag full of stuff, last time they had some lovely novelty post-its OliviaMN - leaves and petals.

I buy things for the children and and tell DH that it's important they have good quality pencils like THESE look, less than half price on Amazon! and these Letraset ProMarkers because 9yo likes drawing Manga style Then I can nick borrow them.

This morning, Pedlars sent me an email about these Best Pencils In The World and I'm sooo TEMPTED.

Can't even go into Accessorise without getting a pen and matching mini notebook covered in glitter and jewels.

Choccies? Flowers? Nope, I'd rather have a good quality tape dispenser and one of those electric pencil sharpeners.

I need help.

Can you chose a style of corner rounding, thomasbodley?

Whilst I share your enthusiasm and could see many happy hours being spent cutting the corners off my own business cards, you've got to wonder at the kind of mind that makes and markets this sort of thing. The capacity the human mind has for invention never ceases to amaze me.

Oh Jules - you have given me a good idea for a mothers' day pressie. Should anybody ask that is - bejewelled notebooks and pens!

Has anybody got a battery powered eraser? I kinda covet one of those although I can't see why a bit of elbow grease can't do the job just as well.

Oh and my favourite diaries are the Redstone Press ones - I have had one every year since 1988.

www.redstonepress.co.uk/diary2012.htm

Love these travel journals at Papergrain ...

Haven't got time to read all this massive thread, there are clearly many of us hard core addicts!!! I was in Partners (ages ago obviously, not so keen now it's Rymans) with my sister once; opened a notebook and said 'cor, look at the lines on that!'. My sister collapsed in hysterics, not 'cor look at the bum on that bloke out the window', but 'cor, look at the lines on that.

Plus, I teach my son at home, and so there is almost endless potential for every avenue of stationery purchasing and calling it legitimate.....[Homer Simpson drool emoticon]

Bertha - no battery powered erasers, but I did buy my engineer Grandfather a battery powered stapler which he loved. My DM has it now, but I have made it clear that she is only looking after it...

But WHAT do you write in your notebooks?? Only MrsHoarder has divulged: diaries, research notes, craft project designs

battery powered eraser sounds a bit euphemistic ...

Stop it at ONCE. This thread is about to ruin me.

I'm not so much of a stationery whore as I used to be (stashes of Florentine papers from an Italian holiday, Italian notebooks, very picky about my diaries, etc) but I still can't pass up a pen that writes in brown ink. It used to be my poncy 'signature', to write everything in brown ink with a fountain pen (cheapy Parker's one). Then the bastards discontinued their long brown ink cartridges. I did buy up every single packet I could find though, and still come across little stashes of them in drawers in the house.

I do like the Japanese brown ink fine-liners you can buy in Paperchase. I usually have four or five of those on the go in various places.

That NY paper shop is doing my head in. I want ALL of their giftwraps.

Maddy - I answered that above

I'm a writer.

I have a diary, then lots of Moleskin notebooks for various different projects. I also have a few small ones to pop in my handbook so I can write To Do Lists or misc. notes.

I can't read all 11 pages of this thread, but has anyone referenced the recent Lucy Mangan programme on stationery on R4? Made for a lovely half hour's ironing (it's on listen again under S).

Maddy - It does sound euphemistic yes, but not as bad as battery powered rubbers which is what I typed first before I decided it might lower the tone and changed it to eraser.

As to the question, what do you write in notebooks. Nothing. I save them for when I have something worth writing in them. That has yet to happen.

Daft really. I love it when people have notebooks and diaries stuff with so many things that they need elastic bands to hold it all together but I just haven't been able to get to that level of used-ness myself.

Japan is the Mecca for stationery. Ito-ya has 5 floors of stationery stuff. When I'm in Tokyo, I block out an afternoon to rummage around. I bought such beautifully coloured pens from there. The notebooks! The sizes, the shapes!
Www.ito-ya.co.jp

Ooh, I want to go back to Japan ...

juggling me too!

Agree about Itoya If we're talking Japan and stationery. Also - Tokyu Hands. It's like wonderland

Oh goodness, this is the perfect thread for me. Just going to say "Smythson" and then I'll be off to scrutinise the thread in detail.

Ah yes, tokyu hands. Spent many happy hours browsing there! :)

Tokyu Hands is bliss. It is chock full of things that you have no use for whatsoever and yet you want them - I loved their cardboard tube furniture. I feel deprived that I never found/went to Ito-ya, though .