Notebook Update: Springtime Green

I recently finished a notebook. Hurray! The skies have opened and showered golden beams of delight upon me.

Azure Leuchtturm 1917 on the left
Unknown Brand on the right

Like many people, I want to start notebooks much more than I want to finish them. This blue notebook took me approximately six months to complete.

I am a big fan of the Leuchtturm 1917 line. Their paper is creamy, rather than bright white, which is soft on the eyes in most lighting. This time around, I took a chance on the blue cover. Bad idea - I got distracted by the bright colour every time I took it out to doodle in class, and it clashes with the kon-peki blue iroshizuku ink that I use in my Lamy Safari.

I've beat this notebook up a little bit. I put a lot of scraps in the back pocket, which contributes to the curving of the cover. I've probably spilled water on it a few times, and some wayward red ink, too.

I use my notebook to write down whatever's in my head: musings about life, plans for the day, funny things I've heard people say. I have quotes from books that I've read, doodles from class boredom, and many, many lists.

I purchased my new notebook while on holiday in China. I have a policy of not buying new notebooks before I finish a new one - but I suspend that rule when I'm traveling, since I probably won't be back. It's pale green and soft cover. I haven't figured out a way to protect it from spills and stains yet. The pages are blank except for small illustrations of Chinese pottery, plants, and meditation rocks. I have a grid guide behind the page when I'm writing.

Dimensions smaller than A5

True colour

It's not really an ordeal. 

Will I be able to finish this notebook over the summer? I hope so, since I'll be traveling again in August and will be poking around some stationary shops. There are two great feelings with notebooks: 1.) buying a new one and sniffing the pages, and 2.) flipping through hundreds of pages covered in your thoughts and dreams and humble scribblings.