I Love... Stationery!

There is just something about the undiscovered potential of a new pad of paper or a pen that really excites me, I can't explain it but I love new and fresh stationery.

It's mainly new stationery that excites me. I love to imagine all the exciting words that could be written in a new journal or on a new legal pad. Imagine the brain working to create something from nothing and put it down onto paper. Even highlighters and staples and post its, especially post its, are included in my love for all things new and stationery related.

My favourite items are definitely paper based, although once a pen (even a new pen) has soiled the pages they somehow become less exciting, like they could never live up to the high expectations that I had for them. When you rip off the top page and the one underneath is clean, that almost brings the excitement back again but mainly, once used they become mundane, how I imagine most people around the world view stationery.

The catalyst for this outpouring of love for paper and pens has been that I have just bought my oldest friend's 30th brithday present. I agonised for weeks over what to get her and eventually settled on a 100 year diary, which is basically a really nice journal that you can use to record all of your thoughts, memories and other things for a really long time. Sort of like a posh scrapbook. I would love a gift like that and I really hope that she appreciates the gesture as I genuinely did tailor the gift to her personality. She loves to make lists and then cross them off when she has done them, she is a keen traveller and explorer and she runs her own business so visits a lot of different towns with that. She has also recently got married and so will be having children in a couple of years and she is more than likely going to get a cat soon. So she will have lots of memories, now she is over the dreaded hump of 30, to record in her journal.

I am tempted to buy one for myself but I will wait for my birthday in February and see what that brings...