Gorgeous diary for a stationery perv

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I LOVE stationery, any ideas for my 2012 diary? I like Ordning & Reda, and Moleskine, to give you an idea of my taste.

Sorry if I'm in the wrong forum, it's not make-up or clothes, but it's an accessory, kind of, isn't it?

How much are you willing to spend on it.

If you have £££s to spend, check out the stationery in Liberty and Smythsons - I like to go there, stroke them and dream of one day owning one...

Aspinals do lovely diaries. I have the black crocodile one and it's beautiful.

Also have a look at Not On The High Street - they have a range you can personalise.

The Liberty ones are lovely. I do spend more than your bog standard Collins, (I justify that by reminding myself I use it every day), but the heart stoppingly expensive Smythsons would bring me out in a rash of stationery guilt every time I looked at it.

Have you tried T K Maxx? They always have a whole assortment of gorgeous stationery. You never know what you will find, but there's always something fab!

Oh I am a stationary perv too :o I actually call it my fetish :o

I have a Smythsons personal organiser. It was a christmas gift from DH 8 years ago and it still looks as beautiful as the day it was given. Worth the investment IMO. Each year since, DH buys a refill and puts it in my Christmas stocking :)

ooh this is a whole new area to waste invest money in! I suddenly realise that OF COURSE I need a beautiful diary not the bogstandard Smiths one I usually have. Links anyone??

Happy to be of service aquavit, you're very welcome in our little group of Quality Paper Goods strokers and sniffers.

Those ones one Not On The High Street are lovely. Love the crocodile one too. Feel a little frisson of guilty exhilaration.

LINKS!

Feast your grubby little stationery-loving eyes on these babies...

Not On The High Street

Aspinal's crocodile one

disclaimer: the prices of these may send you into a spasm

Maybe dull, but for me the Molskine hardback weekly notebook diary is unbeatable.

Think they have Molskine on one of those dicount sites at the mo - ACHICA or brand alley or something.

I like the Moleskine hardback weekly but I think the pages are a bit too thin... Muji does a good one - simple, elegant and functional rather than pretty. (About £12 I think). What I really want is a diary with very pale lines. Do Whitelines do one, I wonder?

the aspinal ones are divine

and lo! I need a new purse too!

I was going to say Smythsons too! They are gorgeous. The notebook feels gorgeous. Also not normally a fan of their stuff but the Louis Vitton personal organiser is beautiful . Bought it for mil a few years ago and it looks really good. Well worth perving at!

Whitelines do a diary, but it doesn't seem to be sold by a UK stockist.

this is my website of choice for the slightly cheaper end of the diary market, they have a fab range and delivery is free too...I have could spend a small fortune.

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loveeeeeee

Love this kind of shopping....[hgrin]

You'll need a good pen too. Dp bought me a Mont Blanc fountain pen when I left work to have dd. I use it every day and adore it. I use dark green ink. Makes writing the weekly shopping list a whole lot more enjoyable.

No, no, no, no, NO. You cannot buy paper goods online. You need to sniff them first.

oh monkeysmama I your style

I adore lovely writing things. I have a Fortnum & Mason wooden wine chest I've modified as a writing box. It holds my card box, my lovely writing paper and my pens. Dd and me get it out once a week and decide who to send pretty cards to. She tends to draw cats pooing all over my beautiful Mont Blanc writing but hey ho