Da Vinci Notebook -- Paper From A Stone

I do love Kickstarter.  There are some way cool people out there with great ideas.  They share their ideas. We fund them.  They get capital. We get the cool stuff.  What is not to like?

Recently, Nick Romer sent me an e-mail and said he had a great idea.  Paper from a stone.  OK.  Is it really thick, heavy paper?  No.  Nick assured me that his "stone" paper would be excellent for recipes because it is waterproof and grease resistant.  He calls his rock paper the -- Da Vinci Notebook.

Sounded good.  As you know from reading this blog, we have a profound love of office supplies and notebooks of any kind -- actually notebooks of EVERY kind.

So we "kicked" in.  Take a look, you might want to add your name to a nifty rock notebook. 

No trees are harmed.

No water is expended.

No bleach is used.

No waste is created.

Check out his video.  The project is fully funded, but there a few days left to go.  Be the first kid on your block to have a notebook made of stone.

Field Notes

Yesterday was a zippy day at the Shirley Post Office. Well, for me, anyway. It was cold and rainy and very blah!!! Then I got my mail and found I had TWO Birthday presents... and my birthday was LAST month. So it was zippy and surprising.

The first present and the one I will address today was from my friend Ann. She and I share a common fetish... office supplies. We love office supplies. I will walk past 50 shoe stores to find a great little office supply shop. As for shoes, I have 25 pairs of Converse 'Chucks", which in and of itself might be a bit of a fetish and as for office supplies, those little office supply places have been DECIMATED by the big guys and you know who they are...but I digress...

Anyway... there is this great little on-line office supply place that I adore...

Field Notes.

Every season they have a special COLORS Subscription where they make the utilitarian brown Field Notes pads into COLORED ones. These subscriptions are, out of my price range, which is why I was sooooo happy to get a subscription for my birthday (THANK YOU again, Ann.)

So imagine my delight yesterday when a big old cardboard envelope arrived with a Field Notes return address. I carefully opened it and a barrage of office supplies came tumbling out, including....


Two packets of SUNSHINE, the spring color neatly enclosed in two envelopes with the zippyest of string closures that I love. They are getting hard to find because one can no longer send string enclosure envelopes or anything else with string through the postal service. Which I personally believe SUCKS, as there is nothing more fun than receiving a package bound up in lovely waxed twine... but I digress... and I know those big old sorters eat the string and it gums up the works and all that, but still....

Here are the Sunshine booklets with their pale, graph paper interior...


In addition, there were two regular packages of Field Notes including a three pack with plain, graph and lined paper for all your writing needs.


This is great you say, but what shall write in these notebooks with??? Not a problem! Out came a pen and a lovely raw cedar pencil complete with an eraser and yes, AND, a rubber band to keep everything in place.




In addition, there was a Field Notes button and since it was spring, a tiny bag of Marigold seeds for my planting enjoyment. What a wonderful present!

I am off to make notes...