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I have developed an obsession with Japanese stationary of late.  This has focussed mainly on one brand; Classiky.  Here are a few of Classiky’s items I am preciously hoarding…

Classiky x Kata Kata ceramics…

Whales large and small…

This is how my little whale plate arrived…

This looks like a Wolf but is actually a Fox…

Cats and Albatross bird.  I particularly love the colour of the bird.  And the cats of course are super cute…

Classiky also have a 3-bear collection.  I have 2 the small blue here…

And a large green, but alas no picture of that.

Now to stationary proper.

Everything arrives from Japan so pristine…

Lets start with my Classiky envelope stash…

These are the ‘collage’ design…

Glassine envelopes…

These two are envelopes and bags and tags in one…

Is hoarding this amount of envelopes healthy?

This envelope design is called a ‘security’ envelope, not sure how it works yet, as I’m reluctant to remove it from the crystal clear cellophane (sigh)…

These are made of wax, so obviously had to get them.

I also have a problem with sticky notes.  Again, these are in the ‘collage’ style…

I also collect weird Japanese notepads that I can’t find a real world use for, and don’t quite understand…

Any ideas?

I’m still none the wiser re: this “map paper”.

Whats this?

Carbon paper?  Super useful for an 18th Century bank clerk…

Or what about this?

Or this?

I’m sure that will come in handy for the 18th century hotel and grocery store I don’t actually own…

Some eye-let stickers.  Super useful as I graduated only 20 years ago…

These would have actually been useful back then.

Some Classiky water adhesive number seals… (these are actually very popular);

Some sticker ‘seals’?  No me neither…

This is a hanging notepad made of ‘magazine paper’.  Unfortunately not fountain pen friendly, so a point deducted for that…

And a ‘numbering’ memo pad…

They just looked so nice I knew I had to have them.

Address labels, actually quite useful…

And lastly my small letterpress collection…

I do actually use these for gifting and cards.  Phew.

Some dreamy looking group shots…

Here my letterpress collection are resting on top my large Classiky wooden box.  I don’t have inside pics of this yet, but this box is awesome and a nice way to store all-the-things.  Unfortunately, I have so much stuff all-the-things don’t quite fit it…

I have the small version of the box too.  It’s big enough to store a few washi’s and a few stamps…

In my defence, although this looks a LOT, trust me it’s not compared to others, especially those who can be found on You Tube.  Also these items only cost a few quid each.  Who could resist such loveliness?  Clearly not me.

Lastly, a quick look at my The Superior Labour Travellers Notebook’s natural leather pen wrap.

It arrived all beautifully wrapped from Baum-Kuchen…

Here it is!

And here all set up with some of my fountain pens, and some other goodies I picked up from Baum-Kuchen, including Paperphine twine (I believe this is a European brand), and some Classiky washi tapes.

Here wrapped up…

And here all set up…