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I've went on a lil' shopping with my mama, babo, and my big brother Hamza at jumbo, and I'll go again shopping at my Birthday =^.^=
Notebook Ideas
Your notebook is a new house that you’ve moved into and now you can get to live in it, decorate the insides so to speak, have conversations with every nook and cranny, make it yours! So…how? My notebook has become notoriously hard to take photos of but here’s a page I really love.
Outside of your own scribblings, book/poetry/song/movie parts make really good additions to your notebook. I’ve mentioned before how I’ve taken to photocopying the pages of books I’ve marked all my favourite lines in and cutting them up to glue in to have a better connection to the book and author but there’s no reason you can’t do that with lyric books or library books. Recording and collecting the things that you love can be a really textural, hands on process. You don’t even have to paste them in! You can use dress pins to pin them to pages, safety pins or paper clips, even sticky tape them as little fold outs. It gives this sense of realness as you flip through pages and you have to lift things up and play with it to experience the entire thing.
Collage. I collage a lot of pictures n art from magazines, old anatomical illustrations, pages of library books I’ve photocopied, secondhand art books I’ve cut up. I love to cut things up and collage them in, I have big fold out pages that are a mishmash of collage. I think the best thing to think of when collaging is what visual concept are you trying to portray, cut out a bunch of stuff and see what fits together nicely, consider colours and themes. Then you can even go back into those collages with the first prompt! Cutting out book quotes that might fit and pasting them against the collage. It’s about creating layers.
Odds n bods, the interactive bits, the bits…that occasionally fall out. I can’t speak for what kind of knick knacks you favour but I can give you a push in the direction of what can go into a notebook by telling you what I’ve got pushed between the pages of mine. I’ve placed old bits of cutlery (including army ration pack spoons) I have a dog tag attached to a key, I’ve got enamelled brooches speared through the page where I’ve taken notes about a fashion line I might design far off in the future, I’ve got rhinestones and iridescent jewels and stick on pearls that I grabbed the junk store in the craft section, I’ve got charms and metal castings, fire hydrant tags that I’ve scavenged, earrings, kilt pins through the pages, I made some shrink plastic charms that I’ve glued in, ribbon medal pins, Lace and patches I haven’t put on a jacket yet, angel figurines and a mother Mary pocket shield, an embroidered patch I made…honestly the possibilities are endless and one of the best things is finding places to put these little things in between the pages.
Your own drawings. I’m a big fan of photocopying (and shrinking down due to size) my own drawings and putting them into my notebook. It gives me a good look at what I was thinking across multiple pieces, it’s easier to carry around and work from especially if the original drawings are large and because I’m working specifically in a very notebook way over sketchbook, it’s the ideal way to explore the visual concept I’m drawing!
Adding extra pages! This helps you continue within a notebook and it also adds to the bulk of it! I like to unbind pages from a similar sized notebook (If you’re a writer I’d bet money that you have A LOT of notebooks you aren’t using and probably don’t plan to use so) sew them back together with embroidery thread through the previous binds and then paste the spine in between pages of my notebook! Occasionally a lil sticky tape is necessary but!
The scribbled bits. Your own mad ramblings n such. Honestly, there are so many things in the world you can write about, perhaps too many things and all of it is important in some way so! Maybe you want to write down all the information you learnt about ornithomancy or tarot, maybe you want to roughly sketch the idea you had for an art piece or a dream you had, maybe it’s story notes or lines from a poem you want to write, a list of concepts you want to explore or research, a list of books you want to read. Ideally, consider what it is you talk to yourself about, what things rattle about your brain like insistent moths, things that ring inside of you like church bells!
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me with every pretty notebook i buy:
it arrived and i’m too scared to write in it
School doodle pt2 :)
School doodle pt3 :D
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Last month's notes for biology // hopefully this will not be the first time I fail this class.
Books, earrings, and small notebooks and mechanical pencils. Always in the hunt for the perfect mechanical pencil!
ok i’m interested. what non-necessity do you buy whenever you get the chance? like what’s something you love that you always feel you need more of? mine are phone cases and stuffed animals.
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
THIS IS A PSA FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO BUY COOL NOTEBOOKS AND CAN NEVER FIND SOMETHING COOL ENOUGH TO PUT IN THEM
start playing dnd, use them to take notes on the campaign. send a picture to your dm before the first session and have them choose a notebook that fits the campaign. use a different one for each campaign, at the end of each one you’ll have your own cool story book!! and the best part is that you and all your party members also have their own perspective!! :)
Study organization- notebooks
I love stationery of all kinds, especially notebooks. And when you’re planning on studying, of course you need notebooks for taking notes and practicing! In this post, I’ll talk a little about my notebooks.
What kind(s) of notebook(s) do you use?
My personal preference is for spiral notebooks. I used to use notebooks that just opened like normal books, but they never liked to stay flat and they took up too much space on my desk. It’s funny because I used to hate spirals back when I was younger and way into drawing because the pages were more free to move against each other which led to more smudging, but I love spirals so much for note taking. They lay flat with no problem, which is the biggest thing for me. The spiral does get in the way of my hand sometimes, but it’s a minor annoyance.
I also consider the quality of the paper when buying my notebooks. It doesn’t have to be super high quality, but I just can’t deal with paper the quality of standard US looseleaf. It’s too thin and, more importantly, the surface is too rough. Paper with too rough a surface has led to the early death of too many of my pens—if you use fine-tip pens, size 0.5 or lower, and find they stop writing before the ink runs out—little bits from poor-quality paper probably got into the tip and ruined it. The paper I like the most feels a little bit weighty and nice and smooth!
Hardcover or softcover is also a choice to make! I use both, types:
Left to right- hardcover lined notebook, softcover lined notebook, softcover 원고지 squared paper notebook
How many notebooks do you use?
I have three main types of notebooks! I’ll go over each type:
Grammar notebooks
My grammar notebooks are all hardcover. I use them to collect grammar explanations and other important notes. I write them as cleanly as possible and even use my many colorful highlighters to make them look a little nicer. If I need to know about a grammar point that I have already learned, I open my grammar notebook for the right language and find it. This way, I don’t have to remember which textbook or source I saw a certain grammar point or explanation in—if it’s important, I write it down in my grammar notebook! So, my grammar notebooks are mashups of multiple texts and sources. These are for reference only; I don’t do any practice or extra writing in them. Nothing but the facts!
Practice notebooks
My practice notebook is where I write down definitions of new words I learned, practice sentences for my vocab flashcard words, breakdowns of articles I’ve studied on my Chinese reader apps… I guess calling it a “practice notebook” makes its purpose pretty self-explanatory. It’s nothing special; I write quickly and messily in it, and when it gets full, I can just throw it in the recycling bin and start a fresh one. My practice notebook is a softcover spiral.
Chinese article notebook
Korean squared paper—or I guess any squared paper—is wonderful for writing Chinese characters. Once I’ve encountered an article in a Chinese reader app and broken it down in my practice notebook, I rewrite it cleanly in my article notebook so I can easily find and read it again later.
I don’t always have all of my notebook types with me. If I plan on studying grammar, I will bring the correct grammar notebook along, and if I plan on studying Chinese articles, I might have my article notebook with me, but not always. However, my practice notebook is always in my bag!
How do you organize your notes and all? For those of you who might be struggling to get your notes together, I hope this helped!
Happy studying~
If you've seen me at conventions you may have noticed I sometimes have nice little cloth-bound notebooks for sale, along with my usual scribblings. In the interest of making my illustration work pay better now that I've lost my job, they are now up in my etsy shop! They're made with lightweight sketching paper, (cream, 96gsm, medium surface) so they're great for writing and drawing.
Wait, I can't remember if I mentioned losing my job before. If not, it was about two months ago, and I can't get too down about it as I was miserable there and I do have savings. Still, if you feel the need for a new notebook, please help my savings dwindle as slowly as humanly possible by purchasing one of mine!
Since they were so popular at London MCM earlier this year, I've made 3 more mini-notebooks to take to Manchester MCM on the 20th. This time I only have 4 of each cover, and a limited number of stickers using the same designs.
I don't know about you guys, but I thought the Koroks from Wind Waker were the cutest possible thing.
A bit short notice, but these are the other notebooks I'll be taking to Manchester MCM tomorrow! I'm really pleased with how they look all stitched up, I'll try to get a photo of them on the table. Since they're not fanart, this set will be available online afterwards if I have any left.
I've made some more mini-notebooks to take to London MCM tomorrow. I've got 10 Free! based ones, so I've only made 4 of each design. (40 seemed quite enough to be sewing in one day.)
I'm also taking some Attack On Titan mini-notebooks to London MCM.
Recently my co-worker paid me to make her some custom books. She wanted two in the same dimensions as a lined notebook she already had, but one which had plain paper so she could write in it horizontally, and one which opened at the short edge to form a very long, thin double page spread. That one also needed heavy paper, so she could paint in it if she wanted. It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual A6 notebooks, but cutting the pages to a custom size left me with a lot of off-cuts. So, naturally, I made those into books too. I got four mini notebooks out of them, in two different sizes. (I photographed them with an A6 book for comparison.) I'll have the minis to sell at Manchester MCM later this month.
One of my friends recently got married and asked me to make her a guestbook for the reception! I actually remembered to take process photos since I hadn’t tried anything like the little window in the cover fabric before, so here’s some pictures of the book in various stages. (None of the page block though, I forgot.) Since the book was square I had a lot of offcuts from the paper. I hate throwing away paper so I made myself two dinky little sketchbooks out of it!
I make a lot of hardback notebooks, and I have finally remembered to actually put them for sale somewhere! I now have new A6 and A7 hardback books available in my shop. I’ve also learned to attach ribbon bookmarks since the last set. All of them are plain sketching paper, and I ship them with guidelines in case you’re like me and can’t write straight without them. I hope they go down as well as the previous batch! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sarahfogg?section_id=13856530