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 ...

wooly I can't get your link to work. :(

ariad- I typed it that's why. Look in the sale section of galison(hope it is spelled correctly) its in the sale section for five dollars

I've found it, and enough lovely Christmas cards to last pretty much the rest of the decade.

ha ha! what do you think of it?

I think I like the elephant one best, although the retro birds are pretty.

I know it is Pedlars, but... I want it all anyway

warmandwooly you have mail!

MNHQ - PLEASE you have to let us know what on earth someone could have possibly said on a stationery thread to get them deleted

It was a link to a site selling children's stationery, I suspect it was removed because it was for advertising purposes rather than information. You didn't miss much it was a bit sub Hello Kitty in style.

I saw some of this stuff on a stall at a fair today and thought of you lot, take a look! Typografika

PS and I promise I don't work for them

Ariandne - thanks :) (boring reason for deletion!!)

I once (very briefly) considered being a Phoenix rep - but it was really only to justify buying lots of stationery!! [grn]

I must report an absolutely lovely time in my local Ryman's this afternoon, which included a very interesting discussion on Richard Dawkins and evolution with the shop assistant - we are both fans of Dawkins and had a very interesting exhange of information.

And he was very helpful when I needed him to be, but did not hover! I have a workshop to plan, and got ordinary but inspirational stationery.

A pad of Quadrille ruled A4
A pack of 3 reporter's notebooks
10 black Bic biros
I pack 5"x3" index cards, ruled
4 matt cardboard ring binders - one red, one blue, one green, one yellow
1 shiny ring binder, finely striped horizontally in shades of orange, blue and white
350 spot sickers in 5 different colours
90 shiny star stickers in 5 different colours including gold
7 gram small feathers individually dyed in about 8 colours (oh dear, now I'm going to have to count them )
and a packet of about 50 teeny-weeny little clothes pegs

This, for me, is stationery heaven .

I can see using the other things, but what are the feathers for?

Dear Collective, I feel that i must confess as my conscience won't let me continue without being truthful. I cannot explain my behaviour and I know it is abhorrent, I am going to sign up for support groups.

I went into Paperchase and came out without having bought anything.

That's worrying travail, have you called NHS direct?

TBH I don't know what the feathers will be for, hence the term inspirational (meaning I don't know what I'm doing yet!) But the 1st world war thing of handing white feathers out suggests itself - only obviously these ones would be handed out for positive attributes. Or people may select their own feathers. Or I might not use them.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Paperblanks collection, which I drool over. This year I have the Safavid design as a dayplanner. They are just stunningly beautiful objects. I often just open mine for the hell of it - they feel wonderful too. The Book of Kells journal also looks cool.

On the inside front cover is printed: This dayplanner is very important to me. If you find it please can you phone me (or something like that, as I have the German version). Isn't that sweet? And it gives public holidays from all the major world religions, which is so considerate.

Oh dear god, Darrowby ... i feel I may be cured. I LOVE the designs of some of those books ...

Those paperblanks books are gorgeous. Maybe in a past life I was a monk who copied out the Bible on vellum. Can you imagine spending all day in peace and quiet scribing with beautiful inks and top quality materials.

I have just spent more money than I care to admit on pens - how did I never know about cult pens before? Luckily most of the websites linked don't deliver overseas.

My local stationery fix comes from here, they have a lovely display case full of the most fabulous pens. I'm so happy I'm not alone in my obsession.

This thread has inspired me to make more use of my (too many) fountain pens. Does anyone have any recommendations for brands of inks, I can get up to two. I was thinking maybe purple or brown or maybe red/pink.

Looks like I killed the thread, but I felt I should report that I nearly had to be helped away from TK Maxx today. I restrained myself and bought only a Designers' Guild pencil case with four colourful pencils in and a Designers Guild notebook with a cut out front and lovely liner. Fortunately they are both packaged so they can be saved for Christmas presents. Possibly.