Mr Geek is well known for getting little ‘obsessions’ and these always involve a HUGE amount of research and usually just a few purchases but his newest ‘obsession’ has started to take over a little!! What is it I hear you ask?? Well its stationary, namely notebooks/journals and fountain pens!!
Now its amazing how much research can go into stationary but believe me its a vast world of inks papers and pens out there not to mention how many different styles of the same notebook/journal there is!!
So where did it start? Mr Geek discovered something called bullet journaling and thought it may be a good idea for both of us to do as it might help us remember what we need to do and by writing it down might improve my memory. I have to admit it does work. We both bought a journal, mine a lot cheaper than his, and while I settled with mechanical pencils from tesco he had to get the perfect pen!! lots of research done and pen bought. I am still using said journal while he is on goodness knows which one (and not because its been used up either). Mr Geek decided he wanted a fountain pen so again research done he bought himself a nice ‘starter’ fountain pen and loves it, I indulge and buy him a lovely hand turned fountain pen from M Saben-Smith and again he loves it, so fast forward a few months and he now owns 5 fountain pens and 7 different colour inks for them!!!!
Now for the journals!! He started out with a simple A5 journal and now has a leather bound midori style travellers journal(not an originl tho) that houses his bullet journal, date diary, diary/journal and sketch pad!!
Here is Mr Geeks haul of stationary so far.
So my question to you is has Mr Geek become a pen king or is he in fact now a stationary crazy??
Now I must confess I do really like his new journal and he has got me into the stationary bug as he did buy me a very special leather bound journal for my birthday made by Mothercuffers that I have started writing my poetry in and I have caught the fountain pen bug as I now own one too but I do like to tease 😉
And here is mine 😉
To find out more about bullet journalling check out this you tube video and for ideas on midori journals check out this you tube video
hahaha! my husband does the same with little ‘obsessions’. Loving the bullet jounral thing, and the stationery. But tis an oddball who doesn’t love a good notebook.
oh my goodness Tina I can’t believe I have only just seen this I am meant to get emails when someone comments but for some reason didn’t, I am a closet stationary fan but getting worse which you will see when I publish the next blog lol xx