It all started with a sketchbook ...
It all started with a new sketchbook…
That is the story of my life, does it sound familiar? If you are a bit of a stationery addict like myself, you may find yourself drawn to new journals, notebooks or sketchbooks. The freshness of their pages might draw you into all the possibility that your life could experience within these well crafted pages. That you actually need these beautiful pages in your life, they will bring meaning and organisation and inspiration. Well this is what I tell myself right before I buy any new notebook.
I’m sad to admit that so often these beautiful new journals or sketchbooks, are filled with only a few pages and then stacked inside my wardrobe, hidden out of sight.
I found some last September as I was searching for something in my Narnia like wardrobe, diving right to the back of the cupboard, hidden behind shoeboxes and old bridesmaid dresses, I discovered the concealed stash of hardly used notebooks. I had a twinge of guilt as I pulled each of them out of t…