A few favourites for National Stationery Week

This week is National Stationery Week, I don't think I actually need a special week to celebrate stationery - I've celebrated it everyday since I can remember, with my love of paper products and art materials.

It did seem a good excuse, though, to compile a few of my favourites here, for you.

I'll start with notebooks. You really can never have enough notebooks. I have different ones for different topics. I love lists, and have found myself occasionally making a list of lists I have to make! Typical Virgo, moi?!

Whenever I need new stationery, one of my favourite destinations is Liberty, London, where I can't resist pretty bits and bobs like these...

Now, to write or draw in all these lovely notebooks I absolutely insist on the sharpest pencils possible...

or (this will no doubt sound a little odd) a Barclays Bank pen - a surpisingly lovely writer!

I keep all my pens and pencils in this wonderful desk tidy by All Things Brighton Beautiful via notonthehighstreet.com

My absolute all-time favourite paper to use for my paintings is by Fabriano, I often go to great lengths to get my hands on this, nothing else will really do...

In my dreams 

I own this Faber Castell Special Anniversary set

and I have aallllll this washi tape

                                               image from Mariage Original

I couldn't really talk about stationery without popping in a couple of my own designs for Phoenix Trading, surely?!

What about you, what are your favourites? I'm guessing the fact you're reading this means you rather like stationery, too?!