An Amazing Find!!!

Wow, wow and wow!!!

Super short post now about an amazing find I had when I went to the Thalia book store last weekend. I tend to drag the DF there every time we go to the shopping centre (which has been more often in the last couple of months as the boys have discovered the Kinder Paradies play area which they love). We went in on Saturday, and the first stop as always was the Filofax stand... where, horror of horrors, there wasn't a single Filofax!!!

Obviously my first reaction was to start hyperventilating whilst spinning my head through 360 degrees to see where they were - thankfully I spotted them pretty quick (that could just be that they have a kind of magnetic pull to my soul...) and then looked to see what could possibly have displaced them.

Well, it's almost the end of October so Christmas is coming, and sure enough, they had been moved to the normal shelves to make way for the Christmas gifts (to be fair, they look better where they are and have more space so is easier to see them)... but be still my beating heart, the most amazing sight accosted my eyes...

A whole box of Peanuts and Moleskine loveliness... my immediate reaction was to whip it off the shelf and hug it tight to my chest so no-one else could possibly even see it, let alone buy it.

This box set contains 6 large ruled cahier journals (3 black and 3 kraft), stickers and postcards, all inside a beautiful keepsake box. No more words needed - here are the pics of all the fabulousness...

First sight of the inside

Under the cover...

Cahier notebooks and stickers and postcards envelope

 I was a bit disappointed not to see Woodstock in the collection, but as I have the pocket Moleskine with him on I can live without him in here... just...

3 postcards and sticker sheets

The keepsake box after removal of the cover

LJx

Notebooks - Which to Use...?

OK - I admit I'm a bit OCD at times, but really, this is getting ridiculous.

For the last couple of days I've had random reminders pop into my head which I haven't written down in my filofax. Just before I went to bed last night I realised that I still hadn't done any of these things and that I should therefore write them down to do today (most still aren't done yet by the way - I will get them done this evening...). I thought it would be really nice to use a nice notebook to write down tasks that just pop into my head and then I can transfer them to my filofax later - I know, I know it's doubling the amount of writing time, but notebooks can be lovely too :o)

So here is what I was faced with... only a small selection, how hard can it be to choose...

I narrowed it down to bound books (not spiral bound), and discounted those which already have a clearly defined purpose, so it was down to these...

Leuchtturm, lined or plain, Flex by Filofax (photos below), Moleskine and a few other lovely notebooks (including Jan Constantine & Emma Bridgewater) most of which were bought at TK Maxx and details and further photos you can find in my other post here.

Now, the Flex is fabulous, versatile, nice paper, changeable layouts, pen loop - what more could you want? Although possibly a smaller size, as this one is A5 (but more about those in another post).

Magenta A5 Flex

Ruled notebook slipped into the left inside pocket, and
pen loop inside the right hand outer pocket

Another ruled notebook slipped into the right inside pocket

Open it up to display the jotpad...

So, let's see what happened...

A load of sticky notes stuck to the front of my Star Wars Moleskine notebook that I use for blog notes.

To be fair, they are nice sticky notes (Paperchase), but so sticky that they curl up when you pull them out so they don't actually stick to anything that well (thank heavens for the Moleskine elastic).

All the inserts in the pack - rather nice

So why did this happen - I am too OCD!!! I can't bring myself to use one of my pristine notebooks for something as trivial as random reminders of things I need to do (not that any of them were trivial...). I think I need help...

LJx