What's Your Bujo Gear?

[inkstone]

If you haven't been keeping tabs, I recommend checking out the comments in the newbie-friendly resource post. Lots of good ideas and suggestions there!

Today, I thought it'd be fun to share our essential bujo gear. Maybe it's something basic like your bullet journal and a ballpoint pen. Or maybe it's something fancy like this amazing stamp and sticker set you have.

Whatever it is, leave a comment with a photo and/or a simple list of items. Consider this your introduction to the community and each other. Go!

Comments

[dozing_dreams]

An A5 5mm grid Apica CD Premium notebook, four kakuno fountain pens which get inked up from an ever-expanding collection, a parallel for making calligraphy-esque headings and titles, and about a third of my washi tape and sticker collection!

I use the thinner(3mm and 6mm) washi tape to segment out sections instead of ruling them out bc I have shaky hands and the rainbow washis to line page edges according to the importance of the spread and its subject. I use the stickers to paste anywhere that looks lonely, and most of them are planner stickers so they either encourage me or help me to write down to-dos or record stuff that happened. The clock is a little brass clip-on bookmark, and the cover is a Midori MD A5 plastic cover.

It feels like this is a lot, but I mostly make endless lists of things inside the bujo, in horrible spider handwriting.

[yhlee]

I covet your washi tape. =) I've been using washi tape in a writing revisions note journal and really liking it--I too have shaky hands, and the thicker tape "lines" are easier for me to see.

Where do you like to get stickers and washi tape?

[dozing_dreams]

They're from the MT Tape Slim collections (http://mt-tape.us/collections/boxed-sets for the sets for the US) and I get the stickers from resellers at a local online marketplace! They're much cheaper there for me ($3 vs $10) because they're either straight from the factories or are full of small defects that rendered them unsaleable.

I know that cute sets can be gotten from alibaba on the cheap? Some I picked up from Daiso, and a huge amount are Korean diary stickers with character sets.

Washi tape really helped with filling up empty spaces to get over the feeling that I was 'wasting' perfectly good page space, and now every time there's a new collection from MT I just putt around it... waiting... watching... free local shipping...

[yhlee]

Cool, thanks! I didn't even know cheap defect stickers was a thing. That's awesome. :D

The next time I manage to make it over to Korea I am so buying more stickers. That, or maybe I should drop a hint to my mom...(My mom compulsively sends me care packages. I can sometimes influence the contents of the packages but not the fact of there being a constant stream of them...)

[dozing_dreams]

Yes, they were a cool find! Esp since I don't mind cutting out my own stickers occasionally or colour variations or off-center printing.

That sounds like a great way to get more stickers! I'm sure she'll enjoy browsing the stationery aisles for the best ones for you.

[lunabee34]

I have that same polka dot washi tape, and I love it!