KuboandLucy

We recently got a restock and some new items from Kuboandlucy Stationery, a small stationery designer from the US. It was the perfect new year’s arrival for me! It arrived, actually, a bit after the new year, which is even more perfect because I had shipped the kids off to school and had all the time in the world to revel in my new stationery treasures.

I’m full of ambition and inspiration for my journals and Hobonichi, and it’s wonderful to have a few new special things to help fill up the pages. Having recently just moved, and not yet having unpacked very many of my office boxes, this is perhaps just a further procrastination that I am enjoying while I have it.

There is maybe not too much to say about washi tape and its corollaries, so I will just share a few photos.

Of course my favourite is the stationery PET tape.

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In any case, we continue on. The days are dark and cold and grim and yet I am forced into the world, bundled up against the buffeting wind and hoping to just make it to the door. The other day, another parent hit my car with theirs in the parking lot. Ugh! “Just a touch,” he says, as he gets out of his car, some certain-eating grin on his face, casually locking his door with his remote, Junia pressed up against the window to watch the action. Ugh!

But it is pomelo season, and the kids have consumed 8 or 9 of them, assiduously peeling the skins from the dry sections, leaving little piles of them next to the couch, on the tables, on the carpet, growing papery and crunchy with the dry winter air in this new house. One pomelo is maybe the size of Caleb’s brain, and yet the children can slowly and methodically devour one of them, their diligent fingers busy while their eyes are trained on a page. Unless you are Junia! In which case you demand peeled pomelo wedges delivered to you directly. We each have our cross to bear.