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Small Notebook That Fits In A Pocket

THE TRAVEL SEASON IS UPON US! It's good to have a small notebook tucked in a back pocket to jot down inspirational ideas and happy memories as we roam. Our small series of Pocket Notebooks has been updated, with the page count raised, so you'll never run out of space.  Here are a few picks ...

Trending (below left)
Small Notebook with a Japanese Design
(Always popular at this time of year!)
  
Classic Pick (above right)
Small Notebook with Scotland Tartan
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Reading Logs - View Our Full Range of Designs

We know how much you all enjoy the Reading Logs so every few years we like to publish a few more new designs, just to keep life interesting. Here are direct links to some of the latest ones on Amazon, but you can always

 VIEW ALL READING LOG DESIGNS 

if you have a favorite you know and love or if you want to see them all. 

Reading Log
with Quote by Joseph Addison
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"

Reading Log
 with Vintage Books Design

Reading Log
Journal with Quote by Oscar Wilde
"W...

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Magic Spell Books - Full Range of Designs

The Blank Magic Spell Book with the Pentagram and Celtic Knot design has proved so popular that we've expand the range of choice. For those prolific in the art of Magick, who are in need of more journal space we've added another three. Pick your favorite and jump straight to it's Amazon page.

Original Blank Magic Spell Book with Pentagram (paperback version and 1500+ positive reviews)
(Note: This one is now available in hardcover too)

New #1. The same original Pentagram design but for Green Witc...

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Trip Planners - View Our Full Range

Our range of fully comprehensive Trip Planners (with Travel Diary incorporated) has grown considerably since we last posted. Here are all the new ones. As ever, pick your favorite and the link will take you straight to it's Amazon page.

Want to see the full range of 10+ designs?
Shop All Trip Planner Designs

#1  Trip Art Trip Planner Journal

#2 A family-friendly Disney-style Trip Planner Journal from our Carnival Range
  

#3 A Trip Planner Journal with a Rustic Vibe. Great for back-packers.

Have a G...

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Dot Grid Notebooks (A4)

Update 2025: Still haven't got around to adding these A4 sized Dot Grid Notebooks to the main USA Shop, so here are some links to the most popular ones ...

Bullet Gray Dot Grid Notebook


Retro Manilla Brown Paper Dot Grid Notebook


Leopard Print Dot Grid Notebook


Traditional Chevron Pattern Dot Grid Notebook

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Book Worm

Our Book Worm design is available as this Reading Log For Children and on a Primary Composition Notebook (all lined) at the mo. Not sure when, but we have plans to launch a series of Kids Writing Journals so you'll be seeing more of this design in the future. 

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The Chevron Range

A classic design in a mix of blues, greens and teals. This image link is for the Chevron Notebook ~A5, but the design is available on a whole range of products (links below) so, like the Carnival Range, its a good range to pick if you like a big matching set of stationery.

Choose from a Chevron:
Blank Recipe Book
Daily Planner

Food Diary Notebook

Meal Planner Book

Monthly Budget Planner

Password Journal & Internet Address Book

Perpetual Birthday Calendar Book
Reading Log Notebook
Writing Journal Notebo...

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American Roadtrip

A collage of all things USA, from Route 66 to the Statue of Liberty. Its on a Road Trip Planner and a Composition Notebook (for American College) at the mo :>

American Road Trip Planner
(It's the best selling Road Trip Planner on Amazon by far)

Funny story... Every time we need to make updates to this design, Paintshop Pro won't let us open the image file because it thinks we're printing counterfeit American bank notes! We have to keep a Paintshop Pro version from 15 years ago just to access thi...

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Cartoon Pandas

A fun 'search and find' cute panda bear design for younger children. Available with several subtle slants...

Music Panda
Blank Sheet Music Manuscript
Has musical notes hidden around the panda bears.
The Primary Composition Book with Handwriting Guidelines & picture space has this musical twist too.



Literary Panda is on a Reading Log
These panda bears have stacks of books hidden in the design amongst them.



The Standard Panda Design
He's surrounded by Butterflies, Bees and Owls. This design is on a
Prim...

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Our New Rustic Range of Wooden-Look Notebooks

We took Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life, superimposed on a high quality image of rustic wood and boy was it a hit! It looks like a wooden book cover, though obviously it's a printed image of rustic wood.

First Up
The Large Writing Journal Notebook

Then in smaller sizes, there's a Password Journal & Internet Address Book
(below left) and
a Guest Book or Vistors Book (below right)
(Popular for rustic weddings but any wilderness hospitality venue in the wilds would also work)
  

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Vintage Themed Journal Designs

There are ALOT of Vintage Themed Designs, so be ready for a long post!
The overall appearance of all journals in this range is similar, so you can buy a matching set, but the individual vintage images that make up the design are specific to the journal's topic. So the food related journals have vintage food memorabilia from e.g. old recipe books, whereas Garden Planners have vintage posters for gardens etc.. Here they are:

FOR FOODIES
Composition Notebook with Vintage Food Design

The same Vintage...

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Pentacles in Black or Green

While there's always a pentacle somewhere in all of our Magic Spell Book designs, these two though, have the most prominent pentagrams:

Both are available as Blank Magic Spell Books which have ninety decorative and spacious spell record pages with spaces to log:

• Purpose of Spell
• Inspiration/Source
• How to Cast
• Things Required
• Use History & Efficacy
• Secrets to Success

The black pentacle / pentagram design is also on a Writing Journal Notebook and on a beautiful empty Book of Shadows. The latter makes a...

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch expressionist, sadly known for cutting his ear off after arguing with Gauguin. He suffered violent mood swings which often left him suicidal (he took his own life age 37). Other moods charged his creativity. In the 2 months prior to his death Van Gogh completed a work every single day.

~A5 Van Gogh Notebook: Sunflowers (left) Blossoming Almond Tree (center) and Starry Night (right)
     

(The Sunflowers Van Gogh Notebook with has his Irises on the back cover)

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Army Camouflage Notebooks & Journals

A variant of the ERDL leaf pattern.Sometimes called the US Army Woodland Camouflage pattern, it’s used by the United States Navy SEALs, the US Navy SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen) and USMC MARSOC (Marine Forces Special Operations Command).

Small Army Camouflage Journal (left)  and ~A5 Camouflage Notebook Journal (right)

  

Black & White Army Camo Composition Notebook

Color Army Camo Composition Notebook

Small Army Camouflage Pocket Notebook

It’s a very popular design for events r...

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Our Antique Map Range

We have two. The mappamondo (antique world map), which features a rare and decorative Dutch 17th Century map, originally made using copper engraving. That one's on a wide range of travel-related notebooks and journals, all listed below. We also have an antique map of Paris on a ~A5 Small Journal Notebook. If you look carefully you can find the Louvre just above the bar code on the back cover.

  

Above left: Antique World Map Travel Notebook
Above right: Antique Map of Paris Travel Notebook

The A...

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Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa

Hokusai was a Japanese print-maker who lived in the early 19th Century and had no less than thirty different names during his lifetime! The iconic Great Wave off Kanagawa is the first print from a large series, which he created under the name Katsushika Hokusai during his sixties (when he was widely regarded to be producing his best work … so it’s never too late!).

  

Above Left: Japanese Notebook with Wave off Kanagawa.
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The Full Low Down on the Super-Pretty Carnival Range

First published back in 2015 on one of our many Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Books, this design has been such a hit that it's now available on pretty much everything we publish. So, if you're considering buying a large set of journals this is the one to go for.

1. THE ORIGINAL MUSIC CARNIVAL DESIGN
These make for perfect Music Presents. Music lovers and musicians love love love them

Small Musician's Notebook for Writing (~A5)

There's also a Password Journal that looks identical.

Blank Sheet Music...

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The Antique Bookshelf

Quite simply, not just our best-selling Reading Log Journal (view all Reading Logs) but OUR ALL-TIME BEST SELLING JOURNAL FULL STOP. Literally tens of thousands of book-lovers have chosen it over the years. It's humbling. We're so pleased you all like it, and happy to say it's still going strong. Like many of our Reading Logs you can now choose a very reasonably priced hardcover option too.

Also available on
 a Monthly Budget Planner Book
and a Composition Notebook
if you like :)

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Our Antique Parchment Range

The original antique parchment design was first published in yellow ochre on a:
 Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Notebook.
The Music Manuscript is now also available in hardcover

In this ochre parchment tint, it's now also on:

a Large Writer's Notebook in Paperback and Hardback 

a Password Journal,

a Composition Notebook (College Ruled)

Because the Blank Sheet Music Manuscript proved so popular, we've since expanded the tints available, just on the musicians manuscript notebooks, to include two more (b...

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A New Series of Writing Journal Notebooks

First Off
They're Super-Pretty Inside

So, the majority of the page is plain ruled (medium to wide) because obviously that's what you want in a Writing Journal Notebook! But there are a few useful features to help you organize content. There's a clearly defined gray title bar at the top and, beneath it, three slightly wider lines for if you want to write an introduction or extended page title. At the bottom there are more options for keeping organized with two different summary areas, a gray box...

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Because Budgeting is Boreing

To spice things up a bit we have some new Monthly Budget Planner Book designs.

Vintage Paris Monthly Budget Planner


Pretty Carnival ..
Black Cats Monthly Budget Planner

 

Rustic Monthly Budget Planner


Purple Tartan Monthly Budget Planner

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Our Trip Planners have had a Makeover

Hello All,
We've been super busy over the last 6 months republishing most of our journals as second editions with a new publisher. The second editions of our Trip Planner Notebooks have a way better interior, with clearer fonts and more space for daily trip planning. Plus we've extended the design ranges. Below are a couple of our new additions, but, as ever, head over to the dedicated:

Trip Planner Notebook USA Page for links to shop on Amazon

#1 Trip Art
Vacation Trip Planner & Travel Journal


#2...

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Fitness Journals & Planners

Hot off the press and not for the faint-hearted, these Fitness Journals are fully comprehensive Exercise Journals for competitive athletes and those serious about their training who are in need of a detailed retrospective journal and forward planner. We've put several sport specific designs which have a no-nonsense, down-to-business vibe in this post, but new designs come out all the time so for an up-to-date list, head to our:

Fitness Journal Shop

Fitness Journal & Planner
For Gym Workouts / We...

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Garden Planners / Journals

Apologies! These were published back in April and it's taken till August for us to get around to posting. (Ah, so much to do :>)
Anyway, here they all are (inside image pics at the bottom of this page) and hopefully this post will be useful for those browsing for Gardening Gifts at Christmas in a few months.

Van Gogh Almond Blossom
Garden Planner & Journal for Gardening
(Always a favorite and perfect for a Garden Planner cover)
It's also available in hardcover

Our personal favorite Garden Planner &...

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The new smART bookx Food Diary is proving popular...

Many, many thanks to those who have already left such kind positive reviews. Your reviews REALLY help us get things right.

Carnival Food Daily Food Diary
from our Carnival Design range

For those who haven't discovered our Daily Food Diaries yet, why pay more when you can have everything other Food Journals give you, but for a fraction of the cost? (See Why Are Our Journals So Cheap for an explanation.)

You get a full large page for each day and you can log:

• Time and place food is eaten
• Sleep, energ...

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Primary Handwriting Composition Notebooks

We've launched a series of Primary Handwriting Composition Notebooks. 

D''Nealian Handwriting Book
Panda Bear Cover example

They're D'Nealian ruled (i.e. with handwriting guidelines) on the bottom half of the page. The top half of the page is left free as a picture space. Don't confuse these with our other Primary Composition Notebooks which have wide-ruled all lines the full height of the pages. You can easily spot these new D'Nealian handwriting books by the strip on the right-hand side of th...

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Introducing A New Series of Simple Guest Books

Simple, affordable, paperback guest books with interior decoration suitable for all occasions. Chose from four designs (top left to bottom right) : Rustic, (View other journals with the Rustic design) Silver Lily, Celtic Lace and Doves. [Note: they're just simple paperback guest books. There's no wood or burlap, just printed images of those textures]. 

   
  

... and here's the inside layout. Each page has a decorative freeze on its outside



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Three New Composition Notebook Designs

Two are collage designs, one on the theme of the classic American Road Trip, the other, Vintage Paris (perfect for learning French). There's also an antique bookshelf to match our best-selling Reading Log.

Composition Notebook: American (left)  and  Parisian (right)

  

Old Books
(Good for studying English Literature?)
Composition Notebook for College Writing

(Matching Reading Log Journal)

As always, the composition notebooks are 8 x 10 inch, fully lined (college ruled) and with unit conversion table...

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Graph Paper Notebooks for the new Academic Year

When we originally posted, we published just two options for squared graph paper notebooks. One quad ruled, i.e. with quarter inch grid squares and the other with one centimeter grid squares.

Teal Graph Paper Notebook Quad Ruled (left)
Kids One Centimeter Grid Paper Notebook (right)

  

They were a huge hit and the quad ruled rapidly became a best-seller, topping the Amazon search results (sadly no longer - it's a shame because the design is so much more inspiring for kids than the quickly churned...

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More Stationery for Cat Lovers

Update 2025: We have two main stationery ranges for Cat Lovers: the Carnival Range now has a Black Cat design and the Rustic Rainbow Range has an "All You Need is Love ...and a Cat" design. There's also a little treasure of a notebook with a wild baby lynx on it, so read on ...

Cat Lovers Writing Journal Notebooks
Carnival Cat (left) & Rustic Rainbow "Love and a Cat" (right)
  

Cat Lovers ~A5 Notebook Journals
Wild Lynx Kitten in a Tree (left)  &  Carnival Cat (Right)
  

Two More Large Notebooks wit...

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Vintage Weekly Meal Planner and Composition Notebook

Back in March we published a Blank Recipe Book with a fab vintage cover design and got a HUGE positive response to it (many thanks!).  So, due to popular demand, we've added a Weekly Meal Planner Book (undated) and a standard Composition Notebook with page numbers to the Vintage Food Design to the range ....

Meal Planner:
Weekly Menu Planner with Grocery List
 

Composition Notebook
Vintage Food Writing Journal
(College Ruled)

The composition notebook would be great if you're taking Food or Nutrition...

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Two more Music Manuscript Books

We recently added a Keep Calm design series to our collection. It wouldn't have been complete without do a Keep Calm and Play On Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Notebook (below left)
If you're looking for something just a little more subtle, how about our New Mini Trebles design? (below right)

We now have over ten different Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Books.

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New Seriously Cute Jungle-Themed Primary Composition Book

Giraffes, elephants, monkeys, tiger kittens (seriously cute), toucans, snakes, butterflies, bees ..... it could just be our best search-and-find kids Primary Composition Book yet :> Check out our Other Primary Handwriting Books and see if you agree?

Be sure to shop the right Primary Composition Book for your child's needs. The book above is half page D'Nealian ruled for beginner writers with a half page picture space. Below is the full page all ruled (wide ruled) version for slightly older Kin...

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Colorful Unicorn Notebooks

We've added a some Unicorns to our popular Carnival range. They're not kiddies notebooks. Probably better suited to older girls and women who still love a bit of color and magic in their lives;). The cover designs are so detailed; Be sure to click through to get a closer look, especially with the small journal and composition notebook below.

Unicorn Writing Journal Notebook

A lined paper notebook for creative writers (Our favorite one, we love the midnight blue and stars)

Unicorn Notebook or Sma...

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Perpetual Birthday / Anniversary Calendars in a Softback Book

  

How To Use
The Perpetual Birthday Calendar Books
(There are lots of inside layout pics further down this post)

Start with the At-a-Glance Year Calendar. Use it to note the birthday and anniversary dates of all your friends and family. Then move on to the Gift Logs. You can make logs for up to six separate events in any given month, recording the: name of the person or couple, nature of the celebration, date of the original event, gifts already given for up to six years, and ideas for future gi...

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Introducing our new KEEP CALM range of Notebooks & Journals

Keep Calm and ... Cook? Read? Plan? Carry On?



Let's Start with Food

As well as the Keep Calm Blank Recipe Book above, there's a Weekly Meal Planner Book with exactly the same cover. On these, we replaced the usual crown for a casserole dish and soup ladle (anal attention to detail ik).
For a bit more motivation, the Food Diary in the series has the quote "Keep Calm and Carry On" instead. (Just because you're keeping a Food Diary, doesn't necessarily mean your into baking and cooking right!).

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Giraffe Print Pattern Notebooks

Choose between Giraffe, Zebra and Leopard print pattern notebooks. The Giraffe and Leopard prints are in two sizes, Composition Notebook (8" x 10" and a smaller ~A5 Notebook. The Zebra print is currently only available in the ~A5 Notebook. Links below.

 

 

Update 2025: Just noticed there's now a large Giraffe Print Writing Journal too:

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A Reading Log for Children

Our recently launched Reading Logs have had great reviews. We're soooo pleased you like them and thought we'd publish just one more ... specifically for children. We've tweaked the interior to make it child-friendly, with:

• a simpler vocabulary and an Index category list ithat's more reflective of children's literature.
• highlighting the children's books in the top 100 books list.
• adding a 'New Words' log at the back.

We hope your little ones like the cover design. It's called 'Book Worm' and has ...

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Introducing our new range of Monthly Budget Planner Books

Fully Comprehensive
A4 Monthly Budget Planner Books
 

We really did our research before publishing these expenses tracker / bill organizer books. It took a while to get it right but it was so worth it.

The number one complaint with other brands was the ridiculously small number of rows available for logging expenses. Very few people in this day and age can get away with only 8-10 purchases in an entire month (I can spend that in a weekend when I'm doing the pre-school term haul for my daughter!) ...

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More Blank Recipe Book Journals

Thank you so much for all your fantastic reviews of our Blank Recipe Book Journals. Here are a few more to choose from. After all, a good menu has plenty of options!

 

The Vintage themed foods one is our personal favorite, and we now publish a whole ...

Range of
Vintage Themed Notebooks & Journals

 ... but we've also done a more formal one (perhaps, like the Vintage design, more suitable for men) and a really pretty floral one, in soft coral pinks and dusky purples, for mom too.

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Blank Sheet Music Notebook (Kids) ... A New Design

The Music Pandas Blank Sheet Music kids notebook has been so well received, we've done another kids one ... singing dolphins and mermaids with turtles, whales, fish, sea horses, sea shells and a goofy octopus (below right). What's not to like?

Because there are an even number of staves, they can easily be paired up, meaning both these manuscript books are suitable as piano music notebooks for kids, but there's no reason why they can't be used for any other instrument.

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Primary Composition Notebook (All Lines)

 
 
 
 
 

We were delighted with the response to our super-cute pandas kids composition notebook book last year, so we though we'd expand the selection. All notebook pages in these books are all lines (wide ruled) with margins, large page numbers, and a 10 x 10 multiplication grid on the back cover.

Example
Primary Composition Notebook Back Cover

Some kids designs also available as a

Smaller ~A5 Journal Notebook

Some are also available as a

Primary Handwriting Composition Notebook
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Cupcakes & Candy Design

Below Right  (with the black spine) is the

 Cupcakes Composition Notebook. 

All the others are pretty obvious from the book titles. Title fonts have clearly changed over the years as trends have changed. Should have spotted that ... oohps!

 

 

#lovecupcakes NEVER CHANGES lol

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Road Trip Planner

A trip planner and travel diary combined for up to 4 vacations (just like our other Trip Planners), but the cover of this one is perfect for an American Road Trip. It's covered, front and back, in fantastic American vintage postcards, stamps and road signs. Inside there are packing checklists, itinerary organizers and much much more. Take a look...

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A New Range of Floral Stationery Notebooks

We've launched a new range of Floral Stationery. Notebook and journal examples to follow. The design is soft coral pinks and lavender purples. It's actually a printed image of material so the notebook covers have a nice texture to them. Very traditional and chintzy looking. Just a few specialist journals to chose from in this design:

Floral
Blank Recipe Book
 

Floral
Monthly Budget Planner Book (left)
Daily Planner Notebook (right)
  

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How about a Trip Planner & Travel Journal Combined?

The Planner is available with three designs: an Antique Map, a Vintage Collage and a brightly colored one from our Carnival range. More info below...

 

Store all your travel plans & memories in one place with these new Trip Planner Notebooks. There's tons inside (really good value). There's a trip summary page, a detailed daily activity planner (with costings) and a really spacious travel journal section with prompts and space for your own thoughts & pics. Each book holds up to 4 trips, so it w...

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More Password Journal Designs

Our discrete password journals have been such a hit that we've added a few more designs. Some are below, but you can:

Head to our
 USA ONLINE JOURNAL SHOP FRONT
or
Go straight to

ALL PASSWORD JOURNAL DESIGNS

 

  


UPDATE JULY 2018

And here's a few more (plus some images of the journal layout inside below)

     

Design Range names from top left to bottom right: Rustic, Chevron, Carnival Cats & Vintage Paris


PASSWORD JOURNAL LAYOUT

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Weekly Meal Planners

We've just published a series of Weekly Meal Planner / Menu Planners designed to match our Blank Recipe Books. There's plenty of space to store 52 weeks of meals and the provision to total anything you like, whether calories or cost ...

 
Above: Carnival left) and Cupcakes & Candy (right)

Below: Red Polka Dots (left) and inspirational Meal Quotes (right)
 

CHECK THE FULL UP-TO-DATE
WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER LIST

UPDATE JULY 2017

Since launching our Weekly Meal Planners in 2016 they've become hugely popular...

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Art Sketchbook / Sketchpad

Covers all your Art needs...
One hundred sheets of ~A4 (8.5 x 11 inch) acid-free white paper (55 pound) with an ultra-smooth texture. There are v. discrete numbers in the gutter on the reverse of each sheet to allow for easy cross-referencing should you wish to record dates, locations, sitters, color notes, lighting conditions etc.

The sketchbook cover art is a detail from Rehe im Walde II (Deer in the Forest) by the expressionist Artist Franz Marc. We do have other artwork by Franz Marc on our...

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More Blank Music Manuscript Books to add to the collection ...

We've designed two more with the same interiors as all our other Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Books, one has antique music and the other, for kids, has the cutest panda bears. (The antique music design is also available as a blank ruled composition notebook and a password journal, and the pandas design is also on a primary handwriting composition notebook.)

  

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BLANK MUSIC MANUSCRIPT BOOKS

UPDATE JULY 2018

Wow, the Antique Music Manuscript design is super popular. Below are two more variat...

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Gift Ideas for Book Lovers

Our new series of Reading Logs has proved very popular over the Christmas period. We love that you love them ... and love gifting them. Big thanks for all the reviews. You've given us lots of ideas for new designs. There are now four to choose from:

#1 The uber popular Antique Book Shelf gift idea  with a quote for book lovers on the back (below)

 

Book Back Cover
 

#2 Carnival Owls Something different - gift ideas for book lover night owls. Check out the tiny book shelves in the background.

  

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS from smART bookx!!

Blank Recipe Books / Recipe Journals

UPDATE:
VIEW ALL
BLANK RECIPE BOOK JOURNALS
(17 designs at the last count!) 

With plenty of blank space inside to log: ingredients, method, serving number, cooking method, food & wine accompaniments, success ratings, difficulty, special dietary needs, nutrition and inspirations, our Blank Recipe Books make great book gifts for avid recipe journalers and those who love to compose their own recipes. We've got five designs to choose from at the mo (including the purple polka dots blank recipe book a...

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Elephant Gifts - Indian Elephants and more ...

We've added Indian Elephants to our pretty Carnival Book series. They make lovely gifts for women and girls. First off, there's a Large Writing Journal (below left) and a smaller ~A5 Indian Elephant Notebook (below right). The Writing Journal is really pretty inside with a bit of a nod to the Indian-style cover.

 

There's also a discrete Indian Elephant Password Book which is exactly the same size and has exactly the same cover as the smaller ~A5 Notebook above. (A good idea for gifts for those...

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Contemporary Back to School Stationery Items - Breton Striped Pattern

Two contemporary back to school stationery items. A blue stripes composition notebook and small writing journal (also with a navy blue and white striped design).

  

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Two new Paris Travel Notebook Journals ...

Two Paris Travel Journals. Both are small (~A5) Notebook size. One a vintage collage of all things Paris, the other an antique map of Paris:

 

Both are lined notebook journals except the first page, which has the the famous Oscar Wilde quote:

"When good Americans die, they go to Paris"

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VINTAGE COLLAGE  JOURNALS

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Notebook Journals for Owl lovers

Our Carnival Design has been so popular with music lovers that we thought we'd make some stationery for owl lovers one in the same style. You can now chose between three very different owl notebook journals:

   

Left to right:
The new Carnival Owl design.
A Mother and Baby owl on a patchwork ground (super-cute)
A fantastic wildlife photo of a Barred owl

The new Carnival Owl design is also available as a larger composition book. They're already selling fast (but don't worry, all our products are pri...

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Telephone Address Books - Large Print

Our Telephone Address Books have large print (font size 12+ throughout) and big spacious address and email log boxes that run the full width of the page. They've got all that you need in a simple format, at an affordable price. We've thought of everything. All you have to do is pick from a large range of designs.

 
 
 

 

Telephone Address Books Spec

They're 5" x 8" properly bound books with quality white paper. The book cover is a tough matte paperback with a soft sheen.

Telephone Address Books Layo...

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Lab Notebooks

We've published three 8 x 10 inch laboratory notebooks just in time for the new academic year. There's one for Biology / Life Sciences (top in green), one for Chemistry  (middle in blue) & one for Physics (bottom in burgundy).

 

Each has the periodic table of the elements on the back cover (updated 2024), along with useful constants, the values of scientific prefixes (like nano, micro, kilo etc..) and common electron shell configurations. On the back page there is also a useful unit conversion ...

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Composition Notebooks from smART bookx

Update: A few Composition Notebook designs are in this original post, but tbh, there are so many to choose from now, that:

 ITS BEST TO HEAD TO
THE SMART BOOKX
COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK
SHOP PAGE

 

 

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Gifts for Music Lovers

We have three blank sheet music manuscript books to choose from. Our most popular design (Carnival) also has a small lined notebook & a composition notebook to match ... a nice idea as a set for gifts for music lovers or musicians, or individually as music study aids as required.

  

Above:
 Our Carnival design on a Blank Sheet Music Manuscript Notebook (top left), a 5 x 8 inch Small Music Notebook (top right) and an 8 x 10 inch Composition Notebook (bottom middle)

Below:
 Two more music staff pape...

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Marble Notebooks

Authentic marble notebook designs with black & white or natural beige colors. They are soft cover (so easy to bend a little and fit in a day bag) and have numbered pages.

  
Above: Black & White Marble Composition Notebook and ~A5 Black & Whtie Marble Notebook

Below: Beige Marble Composition Notebook and ~A5 Beige Marble Notebook
  

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We've Extended Our Mother's Day Range

Something for everyone.

  

Left (new Mother's Love Series) Mother's Love: ~A5 Notebook and Mother's Love Writing Journal Notebook (6" x 9") sizes, this is a Celtic lace design with a poem entitled 'Mother's Love' which says it all ...

Mother's Love
Youth fades;

Romance droops;

The leaves of friendship fall;

A mother's love outlives them all.

Right: Our 'Best Mom in the World' series, available in all sorts of shapes, sizes and spellings.

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Lucky Chinese Gifts

The covers of our handy 'Lucky Chinese' notebooks are packed full of Chinese symbols for good luck...

Lucky Chinese: Journal (above)
Notebook (below left) and small Pocket Notebook (below right)
  

The dragon brings good fortune to those who deserve it and the Chinese characters for luck and happiness are featured on the front and back covers. Hidden within the twisted stems of the three lucky bamboos is the number eight — considered auspicious in China because it sounds like the Chinese word ...

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Love Football? (Or know someone who does?)

A cheap and cheerful suggestion for football or soccer gifts

Love Football Notebook

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Union Jack Gifts / Presents

A full suite of traditional union jack stationery sizes to choose from ...

  
Above: Union Jack Journal (left), Union Jack Notebook (right)

Below: Union Jack Project Notebook (left) Union Jack Pocket Notebook (right)
  


Customer Review (Pocket Notebook), Dec 2014 "This was a gift for my niece prior to her trip to London. It is a very nice, small note book. It isn't too big, but just the right size to jot down little notes about her trip."

The Union Jack or Union Flag is the official flag of the Uni...

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A few of our Cutest Animal Photography Notebooks ...

We have a growing number of the cutest animal photography notebooks, but these three wildlife pics really top the cutest animal chart.

  

Above left: Cats and Kittens Notebook. A sweet kitten in a fir tree on the front (it's actually a wild baby lynx we think) and three beautiful cats in the snow on the back.

Above right: Meerkats Notebook. This one was a big hit for gifts last Christmas. Again, you get more cute animal photography for your money with another sweet one on the back cover.

Below: P...

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Our Love Affair with Scottish Tartan

Scottish Tartan is inextricably linked with Scottish culture, probably more so than Nessie, neeps and tatties or whisky. So popular is this simple Tartan design range that, as promised, it has expanded a lot since we last posted [Mad about Tartan]. This post is a complete, up to date, break-down of the many Scottish Tartan colors, sizes and specialist journals we now publish.

There are three color options in the 5" x 8" Notebook Size: Red Tartan, Blue Tartan and Purple Tartan 
   

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Animals in Fine Art - The Fox by Franz Marc

  
Above: The Fox Notebook (left) and The Fox Pocket Notebook (right)

Below: The Fox Address Book (large print)

The Fox by Franz Marc is one of our favorite Fine Art Notebook. In fact, it sometimes tops our list of best-sellers even when all our other series are included; i.e. it sometimes beats all the national flags and all the kids stocking fillers … surprised? We were.  While most people have heard of the van Gogh, Monet and Gustav Klimt Notebooks we publish, any will no doubt never have h...

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Presents / Gifts for Runners

A matching pair, project notebook (left) & ~A5 notebook (right)  ...

  

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Gustav Klimt: Tree of Life / The Kiss / Music

Our Gustav Klimt's 'Tree of Life', 'The Kiss' and 'The Music' journals are some of the most popular Fine Art Notebooks we publish:

  

Above: Klimt The Kiss Notebook (left) and Tree of Life Notebook (right). The Kiss Notebook has 'Portrait of Adele Blochbauer I' on the back cover (see below). Both designs are available on larger Project Notebooks too. The Kiss Project Notebook, again has Adele Blochbauer on the back. The Tree of Life Project Notebook has further details from the tree instead. (T...

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Small Princess & Fairy Gifts for Girls

  

A sweet little notebook series for fairy fans everywhere. We love the Primary Composition Notebook complete with, fairy, tartan, small butterflies, frog and all. There's also a big bumble bee and a tiny creepy crawly on the back cover. This Primary Composition Notebook is all lined (wide ruled) throughout. (There is a version with half page picture space and handwriting guide lines if you prefer)
The design is also available as a Notebook ~A5 and a Small Pocket Notebook 

Traditional Disney-St...

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Tiger in a Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau Jungle Tiger Notebook (5" x 8")

About Henri Rousseau's 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm, Surprise!'

Henri Rousseau adored foliage. It is present somewhere in almost every painting he did. In Surprise!, painted in 1891 and now hanging in the British National Gallery, a tiger prowls through a stormy, rain-lashed jungle lit by flashes of lightening. A spectrum of rich vibrant greens is interspersed with the odd complementary splash of red. This was the first of a series of jungle painting...

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Something for Camo Kids

Plenty of military camouflage stationery sizes to choose from. (Good for big kids too).

 

Above: Army Camouflage Composition Notebooks (8" x 10") in Color and Black & White

Below (left to right): Army Camouflage Small Writing Journal, Notebook & Pocket Notebook (4" x 6")

    


Customer Review (pocket notebook), Dec 2014: "Great little journal for the camo kid"

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Why Is The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda Joconde ) So Special — What’s All The Fuss About?

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Notebook (with The Last Supper on the back cover)

The Mona Lisa

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1517, The Mona Lisa has many qualities that make it one of ‘The Greats’:

We could mention da Vinci’s ground-breaking sfumato technique (literally translating to ‘smoky’—it’s a deliberate hazy effect); Leonardo particularly used his sfumato around the corners of The Mona Lisa’s eyes and lips which are two key areas an artist often manipulates to...

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A Small Gift / Present for that Special Teacher

"Top Teacher" Teachers Notebook, with a chalk board effect matte cover.

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Auguste Rodin ... on a Notebook?

Weird we know. In fact, we've never come across an Auguste Rodin notebook before; and yet, did you know that "Auguste Rodin" gets searched in Google more times each month than "Leonardo da Vinci"?  Amazing! 

  

So we thought --- Why not?  There are obviously a lot of Rodin fans out there and our notebooks (above) would truly fit that elusive "unique gifts" category that we all strive to find for our loved ones. So here they are: The Kiss on a Notebook (a novel idea for a small romantic valentin...

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Italian Flag Notebook

Our Italian Flag design is available as a Notebook (5" x 8")

What is it about the Flag of Italy that just makes you think of Neapolitan ice cream? The curly font also provokes subtle desires to eat spaghetti. It's hard to look at this stationery and not think FOOD!  Would be good for foodies to keep Italian recipes in.

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Small Gift ideas for Men / Husbands

Why are men always so tricky to buy Birthday and Christmas gifts for? Here are a few suggestions ...

    

Above: Army Camouflage notebook (left), Love Football Notebook (center), Leonardo da Vinci Inventions Notebook (right).

Below: Wine Notes (left) and Alpha Male notebook (right)

  

The Army Camouflage Notebook is very popular. In fact, we've gone a bit nuts. It's also available as two composition notebooks (black & white and color), a small Writing Journal and a Pocket Notebook, as well as the ...

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William Morris Floral Notebook ...

William Morris Notebook with two of his most popular designs. Tulip & Willow is on the front cover and Saint James is on the back. Nice if you like bold flowers.

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Our Best-Selling Kids Notebook - Shh, it's Top Secret

A fun stationery series for kids to keep their secret jottings in ...

  

Kids Top Secret Project Notebook (8" x 10"), Journal (6" x 9") and Notebook (5" x 8")

Could be useful as pirate party gifts?? (We know, we really should get on with more pirate notebook designs ... it's on the list, we promise.)
The pages in the Project Book and Notebook alternate between wide-ruled and blank for drawings. The Journal is wide-ruled throughout.

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Notebooks in Plain Shades

      

      

Purple, blue, pink, red, black and green plain shades notebook journals. Simple but useful. All have page numbers and the purple one also has a blank index at the front of the notebook.

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Japanese Stationery with Hokusai Prints - Journals, Notebooks & Pocket Notebooks

    

Small Japanese Journal (left),  Japanese Notebook (center)  and  Small Notebook (right)
with The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai wrapped around the front and back covers.

Hokusai was a Japanese print-maker who lived at the beginning of the 19th Century and had no less than thirty different names over the course of his lifetime. The famous Great Wave off Kanagawa is the first print from a series of thirty six which he created under the name Katsushika Hokusai during his sixties, when wide...

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Animal Print Accessories - Leopard & Zebra Patterns

Just leopard print and zebra strips patterns so far, but both designs proving very popular:

  
Above: Leopard Print Composition Notebook - also available in black & white (left), Leopard Print Notebook (right)

Below: Zebra Notebook

Additional Note (Aug 2018). The Leopard Print is now available on a: Daily Planner,  Monthly Budget Planner,  Password Journal, and  Address Book 
... Good luck with your hunt for accessories with Animal Print!

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Vincent Van Gogh Art on Gifts - Sunflowers, Stars & Blossom Notebooks

Four stationery items to choose from:

    

Above Van Gogh Notebooks: Starry Night (left), Sunflowers (center) and Almond Blossom (right) [all 5" x 8" Notebooks]

Below: Large Writing Journal Notebook with Van Gogh's Almond Blossom [8" x 10"]

Customer Review, Jan 2015: "I really love the journal! The cover seems like it has a matte finish to it, so smooth and so vibrant! The only reason I gave it 4 stars would be the binding. It's a little stiff but you need to not be scared to open it fully. But d...

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Stunning Wolf Photography on Notebooks and Journals

     

Large Wolf Writing Journal (left) Small Wolf Writing Journal (center) and Wolf Notebook (right)

Each publication carries two stunning photographs of the Timber or Gray Wolf: a lone one with an autumn fall backdrop on the front cover (see above) and a pack of wolves resting in the snow on the back cover.

The Journal also has the Rudyard Kipling quote on the back cover, which reads:

"The strength of the pack is the wolf;

and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

Perfect if you're looking for p...

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Claude Monet Notebooks - Japanese Bridge, Haystacks, Camille and Water lilies

    

Left: Details of two different iconic Claude Monet Water Lilies. On the back cover you'll find the famous view of the Japanese bridge, across the water lily pond, at Giverny. Perfect if you like floral stationery.

Centre: The famous 'Woman with a Parasol', a portrait of Monet's first wife Camille and their son Jean on the beach. The story goes that Monet woke up from a nap on the beach on the north coast of France, saw Camille's standing above him and rushed back to his studio to paint fro...

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Non Chocolate Easter Gifts for Kids

Super cute Easter Bunny notebook and a matching Bunny Primary Composition Notebook. Both equally good for a non chocolatey Easter gift for Kids

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St Patrick's Day Is On Its Way

  

If you're looking for St Patrick's Day gift ideas, we've recently published our 'Luck of the Irish' Notebook (left). It features Celtic patterned lace and a traditional St Patrick's Day blessing (with plenty of four-leaved clovers) and is available as both a 5" x 8" Notebook and a slightly larger Writing Journal Notebook (6" x 9").

The Irish blessing reads:

May the Irish hills caress you;

May her lakes and rivers bless you;

May the luck of the Irish enfold you;

May the blessings of St Patrick be...

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Chinese New Year Gifts

  

Two Chinese New Year gifts to choose from ...First, our China Notebook (left). It's available in four sizes: (Large Writing Journal, Small Journal, Notebook and Pocket Notebook).
The cover is packed with lucky Chinese symbols.
The dragon brings good fortune to those who deserve it and the Chinese characters for luck and happiness are featured on the front and back covers. Hidden within the twisted stems of the three lucky bamboos is the number eight — considered auspicious in China because...

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Stocking Stuffers for Young Kids

As promised, here is a list of our top stocking fillers for younger children. (For older children see yesterday’s post) :

Numbers 1 & 2 feature Penguins. The search-and-find Notebook, in truth, is a festive collection of all animals wintery, including polar bears, moose, foxes and snowy owls.

  

Numbers 3 and 4 are in a similar vein but feature Pandas. Again, in the search-and-find panda notebook, kids will love finding owls, butterflies, bees and more as well as the hiding pandas.

  

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Our New Doves of Peace Notebook

Below is the latest addition to our Religious & Spiritual range. Entitled 'Notes & Reflections", its design is inspired by Doves of Peace.

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Stocking Stuffers / Fillers for Older Kids

To help make your Christmas shopping easier we thought we’d put our best-selling notebooks for older Kids all in one place (similar blog post for younger children coming soon), so here goes…

At number 1 it’s Geek Glasses and Mustaches (also available with the spelling Moustaches). The nine to twelve year-olds just can’t get enough of nerd glasses and silly mustaches at the moment.

  

Number 2 is one of our old and trusted favorites, the Top Secret notebook (with Keep Out! written on the ...

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A Small Gift for Hannukah or Bar Mitzvahs

Looking for Jewish Gifts / Presents?  Our Jewish Temple Menorah notebook could be just the ticket ...

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Small Wine Journals for Different Palates

Below are some of the latest additions to our range of notebooks … two small wine journals entitled 'Wine Notes' and 'Wine Notes & Ramblings'. The two cover designs are very different. One is a close up of a wine bottle complete with the classic anecdote “wine improves with age … the older I get, the better I like it!” and the other is a more contemporary design full of wine related words.

   

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Why Trust Us?

New Gift Notebooks for Sisters & Grandmas

Our ‘Best in the World’ series of notebooks is growing! The 'Best Mom in the World' and 'Best Dad in the World' notebooks proved so popular this year that we thought we’d add sisters and grandmas to the list in time for Christmas. Take a look…

    

Strangely, the phrase “Sister Gifts” gets searched in Google ~3600 times a month whereas “Brother Gifts” only gets ~390 searches. That’s a huge difference. There must be pretty much equal numbers of brothers and sisters out there?? ...

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Mad About Tartan ... Notebooks

Boy are we in love with Scottish tartan. Our traditional red Stewart Plaid design has consistently been one of our most popular notebooks (left below) and one of our most popular kids stationery items is a really cute fairy in a tartan dress.

    

With this in mind we thought it was time that we offered a little more Scottish choice, so we have come up with two fab new tartan designs in the run up to the Christmas gift shopping season. 

Purple Tartan Notebook

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What have Halloween and Panda Bears got in Common?

Well not a lot really, except that we designed a really cute panda bear gift notebook for kids in September and we were so pleased with it that we thought a similar notebook as a Halloween Gift Idea for Kids would work too. A kind of spin off packed full of witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls. They’re both search-and-find style designs so would make great gifts for younger children.

  
The Halloween one (USA link) has witches, wizards, bats, cats, moons, stars, owls, pumpkins and footprints. ...

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Why are Our Journals so Cheap? / A Unique Business Model - Here’s How it Works

Bird Lovers Bonanza ... Penguins, Parrots, Peacocks & Owls Notebooks

We've just added Parrots and a gorgeous Art Nouveau Peacock Notebook to the bird stock in our Animal Series, take a look:

    

  

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Eid Al Fitr Gifts

Our  Allah / Islamic / Muslim notebook in Green and Gold...

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Planning on Exploring this Summer? View our Travel Journals / Gifts

       

Antique Map Travel Journal (left), Antique Map Travel Notebook (centre) & Small Inspirational Travel Journal (right)

We publish light-weight but tough paperback travel journals in two designs.

The covers of the Antique Map travel stationery feature a rare and decorative Dutch 17th Century world map, originally made using copper engraving. Inside both sizes (journal & notebook) you'll find the inspirational quote by St Augustine:

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only o...

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New Additions to our World Cultures Travel Notebook Series ... Flags & more Flags

We've added a few more flag designs to our popular Travel & World Cultures Notebook Series. You can now buy Italian, German and French Flag notebooks from smART bookx. They're great for travel writing or learning vocab:

    
We also publish two Union Jack Designs:

  

... and did we mention the English, Irish and American ones too!

     

Hope you find the one for you. If not we'd love to hear your ideas at: customerservice@smartbookx.com
Happy Holidays

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Father's Day is on it's Way!

We were really pleased with how much you all liked our Mother's Day Notebooks, so we've done a great Father's Day gift design, with a bit of a Star Wars theme, for all those top dads out there.  :-)s all round.

  
Best Dad in the World Notebook (left)
and Pocket Notebook (right)

Customer Review, Feb 2015 ... Cute Book (5 Stars) "I bought this to use for my husband's annual Father's Day cards. We write messages in the book so he can save each year's messages in one place."

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The Soccer World Cup is Coming... American or English Stationery?

Who will you support England or The USA?

  
USA / American flag project notebook (left) and  USA Notebook (right)



England Flag Notebook with St George Cross

Enjoy the Soccer World Cup!

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Mother's Day in The USA ...

It's Mother's Day in just one month (May 11th). Tell her she's the best with a gift from our 'Best Mom in the World' notebook series.

    

(Left to right: Journal, Notebook and Pocket Notebook.)

Our standard notebook size is also available with the spelling 'Mum' ...

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Christian gift ideas for adults at Easter

Our Christian Notebooks make lovely Easter Gifts / Presents. One Simple Christian Cross design that comes in two shades - purple & blue/green ...

 

The purple design is also available as a larger Writing Journal (with a bible quote on every page) and as a small pocketbook..

 

Customer Review (Aug, 2014) ... "Beautiful. My daughter loved them!!!"
Customer Review (Nov, 2014) ... "Loved by my mum. Was a perfect present and she uses it to write down her bible study notes".

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