Link Love: All The Notebooks July

For many years, July was the start of two month-long projects: One Book July and World Watercolor Month. This year, World Watercolor Month is a-go and details about it can be found over on Doodlewash. One Book July, however, is not happening as an organized event this year. As someone who is already using multiple notebooks, I’m okay that One Book July isn’t happening… sort of.

With all monthly challenges, if you committed to doing any of them over the years, would you continue to do them even if the original creators no longer organized them? Laura and I have been doing a challenge every November for knitters called NaKniSweMo. We have continued to support it all these years even though the original organizer no longer participates. That said, I really like the concept of One Book July. It comes at just the right time for anyone looking to mix up their planning, journaling or organizing needs. In the month of July, when most people are either traveling or hitting the planning doldrums and the new year’s planner have not yet been announced, its the perfect time to grab a notebook and try to plan and journal in one book. Try bullet journaling (see the link below), mixing up your planning approach or just commit to doing morning pages for one month. You can maybe even fill up the whole book.

No matter how you decide to spend your July, I hope the links below provide lots of inspiration.

Pens:

• Gold 60th (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Moonman Again (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Removing the Ink Cartridge from the Monteverde Tool Pen (via Inkcredible Colours)

Ink:

• thINKthursday – Anderillium Flying Squid Blue (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Ink of the Week – Troublemaker Petrichor (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Diamine Sailor’s Warning Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Kakimori #06 Toppuri (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Ink Review #2242: Dominant Industry Forest (via Mountain of Ink)
• Favorite Orange Fountain Pen Inks: Orange Ink Comparison (via Pen Chalet)
• Dominant Industry Standard Ink Swatch Tests (via Nick Stewart’s FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Doesn’t get much better… (via Nero’s Notes)
• Changes to how I bullet journal (via Stationery )
• How to Start a Simple Bullet Journal (via Bullet Journal)
• Building the Perfect Notebook for Brainstorming: Quirky Refills and Erasable Pens (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• The benefits of keeping a sewing journal (via Tasha Could Make That)
• My Favourite Organiser – Sally (via Philofaxy)
• How a Bullet Journal Can Help You Organize Your Job Search (via Bullet Journal)
• Scription Chronodex Weekly Planner Jul – Dec 2023 Released (via Scription)
• How to keep a reading journal (via The Pen Company Blog)

Art & Creativity:

• REVIEW: Four New QoR Mini Half-Pan Sets (via Doodlewash)
• Bike and Sketch Adventures Continue! A House with Artichoke Front Yard (via Apple-Pine)
• Final installment in the Anne of Green Gables series (via Abigail Halpin)
• Vintage Caran d’Ache Marketing Brochure (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Other Interesting Things:

• What is the Bokeh Effect? Learn How to Get Baubles in Photos (via My Modern Met)
• Meta takes on Twitter with Threads, an app for sharing “ideas and trends through text” (via It’s Nice That)
• Pottering Cat Stamps (via Wonder Pens)
• What I’m Enjoying…(via From The Pen Cup)
• 2023 St. Louis Pen Show Recap (via The Pen Addict)
• Pelikan To Be Sold To The Hamelin Group (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
• Japanese Stationery Haul (washi tapes, pens, stamps, highlighters) (via All About Planners)
• 2023 Mid-Year Recap: Reader Favorites from the First Six Months of 2023 (via The Gentleman Stationer)

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