flippy floppy tote bag

I love tote bags. I love its spirit to just "dump everything and go". A tote has to be simple, a big, spacious main compartment, just the right length of handle and has zipped closure. So it will closed neatly and I don't need to worry when all of my things fall out of the bag. I used to dream about le sac cabas of Vanessa Bruno, but they are too expensive for me. Even if I could afford to buy one, I still think 160-300 euros for a tote is too much for me. Besides, the cabas has no closure. So it's kinda minus point for me. 

The quest to find the right tote bag continues. About a year ago, I splurge a lot on LeSportsac everygirl tote bag. I didn't know what was on my mind. Though I must admit, that tote is lightweight, has spacious main compartment, and has zipped closure. I kinda like it. I could use it to have my things for campus or even some clothes for a weekend getaway. I spent too much on it just because the motif is the 'limited edition' of Disney It's a Small World Morocco prints. It's cute, it's rare, so I hate to bring it everyday as it's risky to get scratch or that kinda thing.

A couple of weeks ago, when I surfed Kinokuniya bookstore in Plaza Senayan, I spotted this simple tote bag. It's a Flippy Floppy bag. It's large enough for an A4 folder, yet quite slim to restrain me for dumping things. It has zipped closure and the price is only one tenth of sac cabas. There's another zipped (small) pocket inside --so small it can't fit my wallet; and a smooth lining. I love the colour and handle. The price is reasonable too. I believe this is a local product, though the tag said "designed in Singapore". Well, I think I have found the right tote for me. Yaaayyy..  

accessories for hobonichi

I've seen lots of review about hobonichi techo and its famous Tomoe River paper. However, I didn't see many article which discuss about the other lineup of hobonichi's accessories. When you bought the techo on their webshop, you may also buy the cute tidbits related (or not) to it. Those things such as the plastic cover (blank or patterned), frixion pens, address book, card pockets, and even weekly agenda to accompany the daily techo.

Here, I will share some infos about those things..

- 2015 weekly notes

The layout of this notes / agenda / calendar is not in my top preference. A week in two pages, spread in horizontal from monday to sunday. Very narrow space for each day of the week, but enough vertical row to cover so many hours within a day. So I kinda like it to note my schedule. It's easy to jot down quick reminders or important meeting. It's slim enough to slip into your pocket, and convenience to be taken anywhere you like. The cover gives rather modest professional look. Only one colour (deep green) available. 

- card pockets

This thing is actually look like a basic photo album we had when we develop photo back in the 90's (sorry if some of you haven't even born yet). It has A6 size and may be slipped onto the inside cover of hobonichi. There are couple of slots for postcards and the rest are for business cards.

- address book

This small address book has the same size like weekly agenda. It's in Japanese, so I don't know what to write on those column. Guess I have to look for the translation on the internet.

- templates / stencils

Ho yeah I gotta have one set. I bought all 4 of them. This is also useful as ruler, trace some shape or number, icons, straight line, ripples, etc.

There are many other accessories to discuss here, but I think you better look on the website now.. Enuf said.

hello 2015

January.. the month every stationery aficionados wait for. This is the month when we show off our new planner, agenda, filofax, moleskine, hobonichi, anything you name it. Yes, we love to see each other's set up for this new year. Sometimes we gear up with new stationery set as well. There's always an excuse for new stationery, right?

So here goes my planner for this year. I have hobonichi techo with rose poudre cover, a uniball jetstream multipen (4 colour-pen & 1 mechanical pencil slot), and a weekly companion of hobonichi.

I'm so ready for 2015

clear stamps

When I start this blog, I didn't expect to get carried away with the stationery things.. machin truc et cetera. Well, I was wrong. The more I got involved to update my knowledge about various stationery, the more I got curious and need to fulfill the quest. The result wasn't good. I had to face some stressfull moment when my credit card bills got out of hand. I had to stop buying things from the internet. Especially nowadays, when the currency is not favorable at all for me to buy things in US dollar.

I must admit, I bought too many fancy things last year; mostly from ebay and etsy. I also bought from a couple of small businesses as well. For instance the stamps for planning things.

So far, the most talkabout items are stamps from Studio L2E and Sweet Stamp Shop. I have bought from both of them. I bought the plan series which I think very useful for filofaxing and hoboniching. Let me tell you, they quickly sold out. When the new series of plan by Sweet Stamp Shop and Iconic by Studio L2E were introduced, they only lasted less than 24 hours. Can you believe it? Thankfully, now they have pre-order option. Yes, it takes time to wait for the restock. But at least we got a chance to have them.

Oh, those stamps are clear stamps made of photopolymer. You need a simple acrylic block to use with the stamp. I'll show how to use it later, ok.

stempel

When we talk about stamp, there might be a bit of confusion. In English, stamp can be refer as postage stamp or rubber stamp for craft. So I label "stempel" for rubber stamp (and all stamps related to stationery, journaling and stuff)  in this blog.

I have my first stempel when I was still in elementary school (or junior high?). My dad gave one for me and one for my sis. Each of them has our name. I stamped all my books with it. I better look for it in my room.. I'll show you if I managed to find it. Finger crossed. (update : Yes, I have found it. See it here.)

Last month, my sis offered me a custom stamp for my birthday. I really love it. It has my name, phone number and email on it (I erased it on the picture here). Oh and yes.. that picture of me is on that stamp as well.

instagram

Hello stationery geeks,

Sorry for such a long silence. I've been loaded with lotsa thing in life and campus, so I barely have time to post something here. Pity.

Anyway, some people say picture tells much than words.. so I set up an account on instagram. At first, it supposed to drew crowd to visit this blog... but helas, after I snapped some pics, my hands were full. Please bear with me. I promise to find some time and get some stationery thingy here again.

For the meantime, here is the link : http://instagram.com/lundiaschool/
Feel free to drop a comment or anything.

See yuh.

what's in my pencil case?

People might wondering.. what a stationery blogger has in his/her pencil case? Well.. stationery, of course.. haha :D Sure do. But the choices are sometime enormuous. So let me show you my stationery lineup.

First of all, THE pencil case. I used to have smaller pencil case (trousse) of LeSportsac.. but after some time, I think it's time to change a bit. Now I have a bigger pouch, which supposed to be a makeup pouch.. You know I never wear makeup everyday, so I re-purpose it as a pencil case. Nice.

Inside the pouch, there's a pocket on one side and two smaller pockets on the other side. I use them to store the usb flashdisks (one of them is OTG) and pencil leads.

I have several multicolour pens. Two of them are Bics, a pink Uniball Jetstream, a pink Pilot Frixion, and a blue Zebra pen. The Uniball and Zebra also has mechanical pen. There's also a pink Kurutoga pencil which mechanism makes the lead to stay sharp. I must admit, I haven't tried the Kurutoga for everyday note taking.

Several markers with each different needle point; from 0.1 to 0.5 and a calligraphy marker can also be found in my pencil case.

Other things are Boxy eraser, a whiteout (correction pen), Miffy mini ruler, a couple of highlighters, a Sakura Ballsign, a deep pink Stabilo 2in1 marker, a mini brush for water colour, a blue Faber-Castell permanent marker and  a couple of black Standard ballpoints.

Surprisingly, there's a tube of handcream in my pencil case. Should take it out. Oh, and a mini sewing kit in a mini green tube.

Well, now you know what's in my pencil case. How about yours? What do you have in your pencil case?