Notebook Pride

The computer may nearly be fixed. There are still some things to work on but I wanted to check back in on you dear readers.

In an earlier post I mentioned Penguins deck chairs. It would seem they are offering their own moleskin-esque notebooks with favourite titles on them.



Aside from you and I here is who else has just got to have it: Source

Recently Finished:
The Magicians Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

Poems
Sylvia Plath

Eclipse
Stephenie Meyers

What Would Audrey Do?
Pamela Clarke Keogh

Don't Be That Girl
Travis Stork

Unfortunate English
William Brohaugh

The Gilded Tongue
Rod Evans

Lost in Austen
Emma Campell Webster

Eat This, Not That
David Zinczenko

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendack

Take Note

Anyone who reads this blog has long since caught on I love books. It's not just the books I read though. I also love journals and sketchbooks. I was using my own form of this long before these made it on the scene but I did start using them all the same. The moleskine.

Well known moleskine users (despite the company's founding in 1996) are said to be Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso, and Bruce Chatwin.

Moleskins have made cameo appearances in . . .
The Devil Wears Prada











The DaVinci Code
Stranger Than Fiction
National Treasure
Bones of Contention
I Heart Huckabees
Shall We Dance
Maria Jose' the Last Queen
State and Main
Amelie

K-Pax
The Son's Room
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Magnolia
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade





The trend has caught on with many celebs as well.
Victoria Beckham and Heidi Klum


Ashton Kutcher

Brad Pitt

Chris Gray of Radiohead

Jennifer Morrison of House MD



On that note here are some excerpts from some authors we have come to know and love from their own personal journals.

William Wordsworth - copy of November 1806

Virginia Woolf - a draft from Mrs. Dalloway

Oscar Wilde - an early draft from The Importance of Being Ernest

Lewis Carroll - a page from Alice in Wonderland with original illustration


Source

Rebounding from Rebound

The other day in my post book purses I mentioned Re-bound designs. Well I've run across another Rebound book store.

Thanks to Re-bound:
After noticing a lack of interesting and practical journals to write in, Melburnians Ben Mason and Natalie Crupi decided to meld their love of old books and creative writing to come up with Rebound. Being avid readers, they thought about all those hard cover novels sitting unwanted and unloved on shelves gathering dust. What if they could turn those covers into a house for writing? Or sketches? Or travel stories? So they set about rescuing the best looking hard cover novels from dusty shelves in charity op shops, filling them with 100% recycled denim paper (completely tree-free and made from denim offcuts and scraps) and binding them with a sturdy wire to create one of a kind blank journals. Each Rebound journal is hand made, each cover is unique, each page is hand cut and each binding is closed by hand.





Each of these delightful book will run you around $30.00

I know what I plan on carrying to class this next session.

http://www.reboundbooks.net/