Starting a New Ink Journal - Trying out Cosmo Air Light 

Archive your old notebooks in it, use the nice smaller boxes for storing small items like refills, spare nibs etc.

I use my old galen leather boxes to store stamps in my drawers.

I would keep the box to store my notebook in. Keep the box!!! And Thank you for your videos Kelly 😊

Lovely box. I used to make my own journals. I would make my own journal and do custom cover & store it in the packaging box.

I always save the boxes and use them for other things. The larger ones I use to hold all my Goulet Pen ink samples. The much smaller boxes I use to hold all the different small cases I have of lead for my pencils, another holds small erasers, another holds all of the replacement bands for my Traveler’s Notebooks. 😁 I have a lot of the melting wax hearts for my seals, I use one of the big boxes to keep them all in the same place. They help keep me organized. 😊👍 Your journal is beautiful. ❤

That magnetic box is nice to keep paperwork in, I just fold paper in half and label the box

What a dream! I've never seen a leather blotter before. I'm so intrigued

Thanks for sharing Tiffany! I‘m one of those people who get really annoyed with the finger grease spots, which is why I only use the right-hand side of every spread. My Cosmo Air Light notebook gets used for swatching new inks and seeing what the actual colour looks like but since I regularly use TRP for journaling it mostly doesn‘t represent how the ink looks on there (of course). Since this is my seventh year in Hobonichi notebooks I don‘t think I can let go of the TRP that easily, so I might have to scour Amazon JP for some bound books for future use. 🙈 The box with magnetic closure could hold some ephemera maybe? It looks like a box that you could use every day for easily accessible items and too much of a waste to just throw out. On the other hand, if you don‘t find a daily use for it don‘t feel obligated to keep it. Great video as always! 💌

I *LOVE* this notebook. I use it as a fountain pen sketchbook. I got it in January and I'm already about a third of the way through it. The Cosmo Air Snow from Jet Pens is also an amazing paper, but I've only ever seen it in loose leaf. I use it for art so it doesn't bother me that it's not bound. It's described as making inks appear especially bright and I can confirm that it really does. Also I recently got a handwriting workbook from Goulet. It's not calligraphy, just cursive, but it's done a lot to improve the consistency of my script style, so if you're interested in something like that, it's called "The Art of Cursive Penmanship". (Also, I'm pretty sure I did throw out the box the notebook came in.)

I have an A5 CAL I use as a journal and the need to be careful touching the page to prevent oil transfer is super annoying. I think it would be the near perfect replacement for TRP 68gsm if they could fix the issue. I’ve never had any paper so sensitive to skin oils, even art papers where oils can effect your mediums. I do love writing in this paper though.

1) your voice is so nice oh man oh man 😍 2) when i have Really Nice boxes, i reuse them! if i cant think of anything to store in it myself then i use them as gift boxes (^: (i also do this with nice paper bags lol) if you're one to penpal i think that specific box would be really nice to save correspondences 💌

I have tried both Cosmo papers, and the Air Light is my favourite.( loose sheets only so far.) I like the 1.5 Lamy stub nib (not 1.1 it's very dry & scratchy) The Twsbi Diamond 580 1.1 stub is also lovely. I would definitely keep the box!!! I am sure I could find a use for it. Maybe 🤔letters that I have received, that I have received that I need to answer or pre cut swatch cards, the possibilities are endless🙂

How lovely! Thank you for sharing! I love your drawing of your pen 😊 I haven't tried this paper yet, it's good to hear your opinion on it. I have two vintage stub nibs, both are from some time in the 1920's, and both have soft, bouncy gold nibs that are a dream to write with. I tried modern stubs, and was disappointed that they didn't feel at all like the vintage ones so I ended up giving them away and sticking with my vintage ones.

I've been wanting to try out this paper. And I've also been curious about stub nibs. 😁

Very nice! The journal reminds me a bit of a moleskin. Also, your penmanship is lovely.

What is the use for the leather blotter?

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