Stationery Fetish

Spiralling away

Cinderberry — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:00:33 +0000

Spiral notebooks whisper to me about the promise of a new term at school, new things to learn, new things to write. With a spiral pad, with a pen clipped inside the coil, I’m ready to take on the world.

The pen is poised

Cinderberry — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:00:27 +0000

The pen here looks like a ballerina en pointe, about to pirouette around the stage. What it’s going to write doesn’t matter as much as the act of writing itself.

(Photo by L_Dan)

Ingenious invention

Cinderberry — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:59:22 +0000

The author of this picture seems to be a great admirer of paperclips. I love that somebody is enough into paperclips to draw a self-portrait holding one up.

(Image by royblumenthal)

There really ought to be more drawings of pretty stationery.

Script, up close

Cinderberry — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:00:44 +0000

Pretty letters as viewed through a water glass.

(Image by saturn ♄)

Cupcake notepad

Cinderberry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:18 +0000

Cupcake notepads are a Good Thing, as far as I’m concerned, as they satisfy two cravings at once, without threatening your waistline. Yes.

(Image by Wedgienet.net - Illustration / Design)

Moleskines love their pencils

Cinderberry — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:25 +0000

Pencils and moleskins happy together in black and white.

(Photo by Paul Worthington)

Discovering Padblocks cubes

Cinderberry — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:00:08 +0000

Gift shops at tourist sites are often a good source of quirky stationery, and last weekend I’ve found an irrisitible little notepad of a type I hadn’t seen before.

Made by Padblocks, these are neat stacks of note paper glued along one side, with a pen-shaped hole in the corner. They have pictures printed along the other sides, and these can be a little kitsch, but the pad itself is so neat, and cute and simply awesome that I don’t mind the images.

I didn’t really need 800 sheets of note paper, but I don’t usually really need any of my new stationery toys. That’s how fetish manifests itself, right?

Bright patchwork cover

Cinderberry — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:28:07 +0000

It’s been a long winter, with much illness and family issues, but spring has come at last. To celebrate, here’s somebody’s handiwork: a notepad with a quilter cover:

(Photo by ejhogbin)

Paper and coffee

Cinderberry — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:00:23 +0000

(Image by John Althouse Cohen)

I covet the things in the photo: the coffee, the notebook, the cafe table on the Parisian pavement. Ah, the things I could write there…

Spiralling

Cinderberry — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:00:56 +0000

(Image by allyrose18)

These books look much-loved. I’ve got spiral books I’ve had since the first days at uni, earnestly scribbled notes, underlined titles, highlighted definitions.

I keep them out of sheer sentimentality, but they’ve been with me for a long time, those old friends.