Thank you so much for this review! Easily the best review of a journal I've come across - certainly helped me make a decision on whether to get this camping journal

You are really talented, and thel8s music is so soothing ❤❤

Very nice-looking notebook. Amazon Australia says cover is faux leather, Amazon US says leather, Amazon Japan and the Kleid Website give no information. Also, it is marketed as an an on-the-go notebook (folds back on itself).

As thourough as ever, thank you! I use particularly "juicy" fountain pens 😁, and I'm very often disappointed by papers specifically branded as foutain pen friendly... I guess that one won't be the one for me either... I really appreciate your very detailled and fair reviews, I have a tendency to buy to many different notebooks, or other stationary items, to find the right one, and having people like you who do those testing properly really helps preselecting what I will effectively test myself and not being as wasteful as I have been in the past. So thank you again!

OUTSTANDING❣

Great spreads! You gave me several new ideas to try…..as I just started using a BUJO style planner a few months ago.

It's pronounced JESSO. NOT "guesso"

Hi … thanks for the washi tape video. I ordered this month quite a few new rolls of washi tapes and will try some techniques of yours.❤❤❤😊

I bought one and now wondering what pens you would recommend to write with so it doesn’t bleed?

Thanks so much for this. Filming in nature adds a level that I appreciate so much. When the butterfly fluttered by, I just smiled so much and for the longest time after. And all the nature sounds were just so soothing. Thank you kind soul.

So glad you could post this one finally 🥰. As always, really cool and creative! I was particularly intrigued by the line art, it's visually very interesting, and doesn't seem to difficult, like you just need to be meticulous. Also, I've been thinking about your mozaic a lot recently, because I've been cross-stitching, and I appreciated all the more how crazy difficult it must have been on paper with teeny tiny pieces of washi 😅! It's already annoying sometimes to count the stitches.... Thank you for the fun moment this morning! And for the boost of creativity your videos very often elicit 😊

Thank you SO much for sharing this! I've been looking for a more complex in depth mental health and wellness tracker and your presented ideas are perfect. Especially in times of chatgpt where I can literally let AI make statistics on what correlations there are. Also the level 10 tracker at 6:26 that you painted is beautiful.

Journaling since I was a kid, seriously since I was in my 20's. Several decades later, still journaling. The most interesting journals for me, are those that are during times of sadness or upset. I don't know why, but I find them far more interesting than the "fun and jolly" stuff. It tells me a lot more about that person than the usual day to day things. I've always used my journals as a way to dump all the negativity in my life. I get it off my shoulders, and get it off my mind. That way, it frees me up to move forward feeling better. Dealing with mental health is something I know well (lol thanks, childhood), but I reread all my journals a while ago and it was invaluable information and helped me tremendously. If I had not keep journals, I would have never realized how much I had grown. Thanks for sharing yours. If it made you feel better, keep doing it. If not, then don't. 🙂

Lyre bird? Correct? I live in California, inland, which is dry and harsh and prickly and hot and a place you fall in love with. It also has many, many Aussie plants in the local Botanical Garden in my area. *Waves hello from the USA* 😄

Australia has a free trade agreement with the US, so no taxes. Exchange rate fees, probably...

I have just subbed (from London Uk) oh my heart! Your gorgeous pup! x

Tnx for review, maybe in the future i will try dingbat. Looking good for fountain pen use 😀

Dingbats are the only journals I use! I’ve been through 6 of them in the last 7 years! Just the plain dotted journals. I love the page perforation for the times I need to rip out a page, the pen holder, elastic that doesn’t stretch out like cheaper journals, the amount of dots, the hard cover, and the quality of paper! I used to bullet journal in these journals but now keep a calendar and daily journal. Love em. No complaints!

Thank you very much for such a detailed video, I've got the purple one, I think it's the Wildl Life Collection and I'm happy that it doesn't have numbered pages. I love the page bleeding test that you've made, as always, very useful 🤓

I am SO annoyed with Leuchtturm paper: I had two 120gsm in A5, and the paper felt really good, and worked well with foutain pen, but this weight only exists in A5, and I'm a B5 girl for my planner/journal. So this year, I bought a B5 planner in 80gsm, because the spreads looked ideal to my practice. And it's awful! It's incredibly transparent (and I like to write with large nibs), and it gets crinkly like bible paper, I really don't understand! In the same weight, you have school Clairefontaine paper (well 90gsm) which doesn't ghost at all, the standard Clairefontaine (like in Rhodia notebooks) that works fine, the Paperblanks that is insanely good (well except the 120gsm, which baffles me a little), or the thicker Tomoe River (it's like 70gsm I think? Not the 52gsm one), and then Apica and so on. I really don't understand the Leuchtturm hype, honestly, I think it's just snobism. And I had the same experience of badly glued binding with one of my A5, which means it must happen regularly. Sorry for the rant, there aren't a lot of people that are as nerdy about paper as I am, and as you're very knowledgeable in all things stationary, I thought I would share 😁! Thank you once more for the in-depth and carefuly researched reviews!

I knew the september pages, of course, from your different washi uses videos, but july and august are exceptionnaly pretty too (the colors! 😍). As for the black journal, it's interesting that you were working on black paper, so quite different from what I've seen from you, at this difficult time in your life. I don't know if you've realized how very creative everything looks during those few months. Maybe the sadness and anxiety is still what those spreads remind you of, but from the exterior, it all looks so interesting and strong and beautiful. I'm really glad you chose to show us those pages even a bit late. Plus, the journals themselves and the paper look really nice! You ask if we keep our journals from sad times. Well, I've journaled sometimes, when I was younger, but it was only writing, and quite dark, and I've always thrown away everything because it felt unhealthy. I've begun to really journal 5 years ago, with some creative expression (well more and more 😊), but mostly planning and memory keeping, and that I keep and flip through regularly. It's often sad, because I'm very sick, but the goal from the beginning was to keep track of what I do and how I feel for mental health (you know, for people with a lot of anxiety, it's recommended to mood track in detail to show oneself that one's life is not just a continuous string of hazy darkness), and it's been really useful, so I certainly won't get rid of them. Thank you for talking about that with us, it feels right to me to share those things to help each other do better mentally.

Me too! Looking forward to see the review. Although, I've already made up my mind and bought my first dingbats notebook, there was a discount and couldn't resist the purple colour of the one with the hipopotamus on the cover 💜 I'm a bit scared about how thin the paper is, my current journal is 160 and the previous one was 180... so, not sure how I will be dealing with this one. I would love to see your video! 😻

Wow! This dutch door layout is innovative and absolutely stunning! 😍 I want to include more dutch doors in my creative layouts and this was very helpful. I love the Procreate tip, very smart using the layers system to figure out how it will turn out. Thank you for sharing ❤

That was FUN! And really well done. Who would have thought that sewers could be so pretty? 😁 I think it's the geometry of it, plus your colors are really nice. And I like the rats, they give a little something whimsical to the all theme. As often, success! 🥰

This is so cool

Thanks for review. Do you have favorite for fountain pen use only? Is it midori or rhodia better buy? Cheers 😊

Your journal reviews are the most comprehensive on the internet. Well done! (And I agree with your findings about Leuchtturm 1917. They're nice, but not superlative.

I have the purple paper in an A5 spiral bound. Smooth!

oooooh, that purple!

I really like this one, it's sweet and pretty, and fun too. And I'm a fan of Djeco, they're everywhere here, in France, and the kids in my family, including mine, have received MANY Djeco activity boxes or stickers from me! I use them for myself, too, obviously, often I steal stickers from my kid, or I use what's left over, or what the little ones didn't like. It's nice to see those in your journal. Plus you know how much I like your washi art 🥰, never disappointed! Hope everything goes well with your mum and the job hunting!

I really like Midori paper, soooo smooth, but I must say that some fountain pen, or a combination of some fountain pen and some inks, don't work properly on it, precisely because of the smoothness: if the flow is insufficient for any reason (the pen itself, the nib, the ink...) there is no grip, no grain, to stimulate the flow. But when the pen is compatible, the writing experience is uniquely wonderful.

Omg, Ruby, you crazy ambitious lady! 🤯 This looks wonderful, though... it makes perfect sense to me to use cross-stich patterns, and even maybe jacquard knitting patterns, or other kind of embroidery, to do a washi mozaic. I think maybe, if I were to try this technique, I would print the pattern in a very light grey, so as not to have to refer to the key and pattern every 2 seconds (or write it on the grid in a very light pencil). Like a paint by number with washi, you know? Although, it might be difficult with the 2mm squares 😅. Or maybe, print the color pattern in very light colors? This is very inspiring, as you can see, my brain wants to experiment now! Oh, patchwork washi! Well, your usual washi art is kind of crazy quilting like, anyway. I'm a bit too sick at the moment to try something that would take that much time, but I know I won't forget about this, because it is AWESOME, and I'll probably try this in the future, when I have a respite in my health 😊🥰. Thank you for the prettiness and the originality, it makes me very happy!

Love these journals! Definitely need to check out her matching journal sleeves and Kindle sleeves too … they are magnificent! Also pens to match.

wow the journals are gorgeous!! i wish they had a pastel pink one though 😢

So pretty! Thanks for sharing! These are so me! Going to check them out!

i love it when you post journal reviews!

Looks great! Washi tape art is a fun idea. Good luck with job applications!

I’ve been using a Dingbats journal for a while now. No complaints except for the cream pages! Sticking in any stickers with white borders, or photos with white borders, just looks weird, but I’ve made myself get over it.

I like your videos but 52 gsm just isn't for me.

Thank you for the warning. Stalogy are clearly not useful at all.

Oh! One for my wish list. 😉 Looking forward to your review of it.

Heather Hammerquist had trouble loading a comment so I wanted to add it, as it still showed on my notifications... She noted: There is ghosting on the paper, but I’ve never had any feathering or actual bleed-through. I actually test out my fountain pen ink on the onion skin paper and it is delightful to interact with.

Stalogy is an amalgamation of Standard and Technology.

Fabulous!! Love the Dutch door /layered spreads!!!❤

The company sells the pen loops separately from the journals

Thank you for this review. I had a stalogy years ago and liked having 365 pages. So many hard choices. 💗

I love it.

Excellent description of the travelers notebook. Congratulations for your work you have done here.

Hi - new subscriber here! Enjoyed all of your ideas and examples for journals.i especially love how you set up and illustrate your memories journal!!! The random entries would make it such fun to browse through anytime! Thanks for sharing your ideas and experience 💕

I don't believe that I've ever seen such an extensive and complete review!!! Many thanks, and happy journaling ✍️💙