I just  ❤ LOVE ❤  stationery!! I hardly ever write anything now but every time I pass a stationery shop, I must stop and take a look. The stare wishfully at the beautiful notebooks available, the colourful pens, the rainbow coloured papers…the list goes on. In our whirlwind trip to Barcelona 2 weeks ago, we walked into a modern interior store. A store sort of like Iwannagohome. While we were browsing..guess what caught my eye? They had a whole shelf of dreamy notebooks in all sizes. I stood staring and caressing the books so long that M told me to get them.

I sadly told him…I don’t need them. He continued that they are so “belli” (beautiful). I said, I know but I again insisted that I don’t need them. Truth be told, I have a few more unused notebooks lying around. If I don’t stop myself from buying every nice one that I come across, I can open a little school for needy kids and they all get free notebooks! After pulling myself away to browse the rest of the shop, i inadvertently came back to it. 😦 Finally, when M was paying for our purchase, wollen gloves for the family, he insisted I get one. How sweet of him. In the end I did get one but I am determined to not hang on to it. I bought it with a friend in mind and I am going to give it to her as a gift when I see her next. I bought the design that reminds me the most of her. 🙂

While on this topic, don’t you just love coloured pens!! I can’t get enough of the pens that MUJI carries. I still only buy my coloured pens from them. Though now I hardly use them anymore. if anyone knows me from my Uni days, my notes are all taken with coloured pens and are divided by the different colours that I have decided to use that day. A colour for the heading, another for the content, another for the sub-headings and another for side notes. So, actually reading my notes is very easy. I already colour coordinated and subdivided them just by writing them down.:D Too bad there is no MUJI here in Italy. But I found one in Barcelona! Another great find in MUJI is a pair of gloves for anyone who has a touch phone! You know how troublesome it is to have to take off your glove to use them because they are all heat sensitive now and not pressure sensitive, which is one of my pet peeves with the new touch phones, especially in winter. This new gloves at the cost of €20 has a heat sensitive pad on the index finger tips and the thumbs! I tried them on and it works!! You don’t have to take them off!! But the price tag put me off! I don’t actually live in such a cold place that I need to wear gloves all the time. Besides the Siberian breeze blowing through we are now back to 8˙C and above. Might dip a little if it is raining but other than that it is warm when the sun shines. I couldn’t justify the €20 price tag. 😦

My latest purchase, see I told you I have to literally stop myself from buying stationery, is a mousepad notepads! Featured in the photos above. By the way, I am trying to use the photo gallery thing that wordpress offers so I don’t know how it is going to turn out. If you see later that it is not in a photo gallery mode anymore, you will know that I didn’t like it and I changed it. Back to the notepads. I bought 2 though I liked like 5 of them, I had to pare my choices down. The little vespas on the side is so cute. I thought it was the best choice as we do buy, sell and restore antique vespas! I am thinking of giving them to M. Vespas are his passion afterall.

I got a new company notepad today!! I am stationery-ly happy!!! OOOooo…and M got me a Swarozski pen for Valentines!! I got to get started at writing old fashioned letters just to use up my stationery! Anyone wants to receive snail mails from me??

p/s : I think stationery is so important to me that it merits its own Category! 😛