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 ...

Whoops. So excited I mistyped the link, sorry! Here, Falkiners

Katespaperie.com. I had to be prised out of the shop in NY 6 years ago and I still dream about it. Sad.

I have posted about them before (no relation or connection, I swear), but I love Leathersmith notebooks with all my heart. They cost 1/3 of Smythson but have the same sumptuous leather and the blue bleedproof paper.

I have stopped buying notecards at Smythson and started getting my own printed - with bespoke decals designed by a graphic designer friend - and printed at a thermographic printing specialist. Smythson are now so expensive this option is actually cheaper.

I also have a white marble Parker Centennial fountain pen. This is the Olympic medal of fountain pens, and no-one is allowed to use it because it has an 18k gold nib so soft it moulds to your own handwriting within hours. My husband is left handed and once attempted to use it- he was lucky to escape a physical assault. It costs £50 every other year to maintain

You lot are mere amateurs. When can I boast about my Dymo 400 label printer, please?

Another addict here.

I have a beautiful Mont Blanc pen and some embossed cream personalised cards that I never use because i've got no reason to use them which I love

I love Moleskine notebooks
Anything from Smythsons sale
Muji
Paperchase
et al

When I was little, I love stationery in a different way - I liked the functional stuff, so for my 9th or 10th birthday, my mum spent about £40 in Rymans and I got:

1 x book raffle tickets
1 x real teacher's register
1 x Accounting book
2 x tear off (perforated edges) invoice book with carbon sheets
1 x ring binder with dividers
1 x clear clipboard (big thing to have clear plastic back in the day and I think this was from a shop called 'Parrot' on the Kings Road - defo not Ryman'
1 x tear of duplicate 'phone messages' book

I was ECSTATIC

I have recently bought DD (6) a 'real' teachers register and she loves it too

Oooh and one of those Dymo things where you turned the wheel to change the letter and could print out REAL PLASTIC LABELS

I have a label maker, I love the concept and when it works properly it's great but it seems to eat the tape and then I end up with a concertina style label which is crap

I have boys and they don't seem to 'get' the stationery thing at all. I get excited over buying them a new pencil case each year, they couldn't give a monkeys what it looks like!!

I buy them decent pencils to satisfy myself, again, they aren't bothered. They do both appreciate a good sharpener though....maybe there is hope yet

I really, really want one of those old-fashioned pencil sharpeners that clamps to your desk and sharpens when you turn a little lever. They had them when I was at primary school on the teacher's desk; never seen one since.

Someone I know has an electric pencil sharpener [evils emoticon]

Superene - pre DC, I used to plan trips to NYC around the happy hours to be spent in Kates Paperie. Every now and again someone is deemed worthy of one of the remaining pieces of wrapping paper from my carefully hoarded supply.

Do they ship to the UK yet? It would be a poor substitute for a RL fix, but better than nothing.

Doyouthinktheysawus - you need to work on your DSs - mine is more of a stationery addict than DD and a true appreciator of the joy of sets of stuff.

www.katespaperie.com/ I can see why people love this place.

OMG squiggle, I'd forgotten all about sets.

Did you have a Helix Oxford Maths pencil box tin when you were little? I swear it was the main reason I applied to Oxford.

YY Jaded, I was just like that as a kid too!

I'll never forget the birthday when my mum and dad got me a plastic index box complete with index cards and dividers.

I almost expired with joy.

Mini clipboards too... and staplers....

ooh - how exciting - cant read whole thread just now as babies want lunch but I too am a stationery lover and just in process of opening an online shop for pretty/fun stationery - strawberryscribbles.co.uk - mainly just so I can order lots and enjoy upwrapping it all! Should be up and running in a month or so!

I loved papernation, but it's closed for a year while they go travelling - they had fab notebooks in there.

Oh my life!

One of my best Christmas presents was from an Aunt with a similar addiction. I'd asked for some new felt tips for Christmas. She arrived with a gift bag almost as big as me, filled with pens, notebooks, post-it notes in unusual shapes, those flourescent cards people used to put prices and notices on in shops, a marbled peacock coloured portfolio file, novelty erasers. Oh, it was a great day!

I was just going to say that it annoys the hell out of me when people spell it stationary, and just noticed further up that some of you do just that.

I assume, LeQueen, that by share you actually meant look at occasionally, but not so often that there is any danger of fading by excess exposure to sunlight?

Another stationery addict here, another muji pen addict here
I love love love going to one of the big big hypermarkets in France when we go on holiday in August. I always insist to DH I need a whole day for the shop. Most of that is taken up with the Back to School aisles of which there are rows and rows of stationery. It is bliss.
Have just looked at that present and correct site, never seen it before and now purse has started twitching

oh gawd why is it all so expensive though

I try stealth, I really do but they just look at me like this

It doesn't help that pencil cases and the like for boys on the high street are just awful! I bought their last pencil cases online, made by a company that does rucksacks. They are lovely, plain but brightly coloured.

Whsmith and the like just do a few for boys which are either black or camouflage The selection for girls is much larger and more varied.....lots of pink though

A stationery addict across the Atlantic here. My local shop is PaperSource. It is the only place I shop where they know my name. For all the Moleskin notebook lovers in the USA they designed a range for Target which, not as gorgeous as the originals but are a fraction of the price.