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 ...

Mamma- I would totally buy that book!

I have:

Dymo label maker
Laminator
Personalised embossed stationery
Many, many pink/clear/colourful Muji files and folders
Perspex Muji desk organiser with little drawers and lidded section with coloured paperclips/pins etc
2 x Moleskine notebooks
Smythson travel notes book
Mont Blanc Fountain Pen (30th Birthday present)
William Morris pattered matching stapler, hole punch, staple remover set
Sticker file. Yes, file
Various paperblanks notebooks

However, all of this is 'old' - mostly bought pre DCs when in full time work. I now have to get my stationery fixes from our local WHSmith (though I will never, NEVER I tell you, use a bic biro and a spiral bound notebook. As long as there's life in me, etc...)

I respect you all

respect and fear!

Japanese stationery shopping is bliss. I still have some hoarded from when my parents lived there, and DS's own hoard contains stickers which they brought back when they went on holiday there.

Unless it has moved in the last decade, Kate's Papierie is even in a bit of NYC with lots of cool coffee shops / bookshops to park DH in for several hours so that he doesn't have to suffer through my stationery drooling and dithering and isn't there to mutter about luggage allowances.

I'm another stationery addict. I have a Waterman Fountain pen and use purple ink. I also have a parker fountain pen for everyday and use Diamine ink to refill (I saw 70 shades of ink for them on one website and picked one of about 20 shades of blue). I have to keep my stash in a drawer or everyone else in the house raids it. I like any stationery, but fountain pens are at the top of the list. Good job I don't have a credit card at the moment (due to a fraud, new card in post to me) or I'd be spending right now having seen this thread......

Feels the urge to laminate something coming on...

Japanese stationery is quite unlike what you can buy in the West.

We still have some from DW lived there. We only use it very occasionally one sheet at a time.

God i thought I was the only one with this "problem".

I spend waaaaay to long choosing thankyou cards the other day, and I have seen some waaaaay to cute baby announcment cards in the local paper shop.
my favorite pen is a vintage mt blanc from my dad. i do LOVE a sharpie though and moleskin notebooks. heavenly. There is nothing as nice as opening a brand new notebook

Anyone remember wooden pencil cases with a sliding rotating lid?

I like Bic ball point pens, index cards, paper must be narrow feint no margin, or Quadrille ruled. Used to have some nice polar graph paper too. After many different filing attempts, use ring-binders and plastic pockets (not cheap ones, which can be too flimsy and not properly transparent) Favourite ring binder is recycled and says 'I'm afraid I got a bit trashed, but I'm much better now' on it.

Recently found a site where you could print all manner of different graph papers - hope I bookmarked it.

So I am more functional than pretty in appoach. But still an addict.

Thanks to whoever mentioned TK Maxx first. I popped in today and managed to bag myself the last Liberty notebook (purple leather embossed with the art deco design); some rather fab post it notes and a TeNeues notebook. All under half price.

I remember those? With a top and bottom tray? And the lid was a ruler!

I'm all about pretty. I have a monsoon pencil tin with matching hole punch, stapler, ruler and calculator. I didn't need them but had to have them. They are in pride of place in my office. I don't think I ever used them.

look at this
for a child who loves stationery

And what about a wooden squirrel tape dispenser?
i want one!
I could spend a heinous amount at the V and A shop......

Ariad- Liberty notebooks you say. Please take a photo and post (or tweet!)!
I have -lots- a few V and A notebooks that have leather and sort of rubbery covers from there.

woody it's this one only in a rich puple colour.

OOh. I want that notebook! I shall pop in to my local TK Maxxes and have a look. I love Liberty. One year I was given a Liberty diary for Christmas. It has really necver been bettered!

I buy birthday cards on spec. The problem comes when they are too good to give away. I may have been known to buy two of a particularly nice one in order that I can bear to let go of one.

I'm quite over that notebook, and LeQueen - librarians are the queens(and kings) of stationery porn, no question. Stamps - you don't even need to mention the laminators, guilotines, craft knives, sharpies etc - stamps. Librarians and primary school teachers.

Home bargains as I have said are great for bits and bobs.

15p a pack for Bic sticky notes (bought three)
And 99p for a to do/notes pad.

LeQ I have an entire (large) cupboard full of gorgeous wrapping paper and ribbons and the like, and a large basket of cards. Wrapping things is one of my favourite occupations, but I do have to match my special paper (a lot of it from Kates Papierie) to deserving recipients which may be why I still have some left 10 years after I last went to NYC. I love bulk buying ribbons from ebay and Costco because it means I can use it without giving away all of a particularly lovely ribbon in one go

While we are recommending suppliers, may I commend to you minor mail (especially when she has periodic 2 for 1 sales and I stock up for the decade year)

lowlandlady my DC would love that postal service set

I really can't drag a poorly DD to TKMaxx in search of notebooks, can I ?

Stealth-TK Maxx sell toys too...