Locally, the Houston Journal Society could be spotted at Dromgoole’s or Little Craft Place. Those are our two spots for most stationery needs. We get to have meet ups, chat with the best staff and shop owners in the city, and force encourage new friends to indulge in hobbies. But in a very informal poll, some members shared other places to get their fix of stickers, notebooks, pens, more stickers, ephemera, and of course, stickers.…
Spring is the time for fresh starts. We’re shaking off the random snow from winter and getting it together. Maybe your New Year resolutions are a bit off track or maybe you are upset that you didn’t get into the last journaling challenge. No matter. Get a notebook. We’re journaling. Welcome to another HJS Journaling Month! Journal every day in March and you are a winner. A friendly reminder to us all; journaling can be…
January means a new beginning for most of us. New year. New goals. But most importantly, new planners. Starting in September the planner and journal community start ordering and prepping for what journals to use and and and. Now is the time to break them out and put them to use. But first, take some time to do a little techno kaigi. Simply put, it means “notebook meeting.” You sit down and have an honest…
Odds are that if you are a notebook person, you have done some commonplacing even if you did not know the name for it. When you come across a quote in a book (or a shirt, or some graffiti) you really like and you write it down? That’s a Commonplace. Those screenshots you take? If you look back at them that’s a Commonplace. They are more like a database than a diary. – balzerdesigns How…
Get out your notebooks and pens, we’re going journaling. An informal poll in Discord proved that most of us want consistent journaling habits. We have the notebooks. Boy do we have the notebooks. We have the pens. The stickers. The ephemera. We have it. In piles. And now we’re gonna use it. But I have notebook paralysis! But I don’t want to mess up the first page! But it’s not gonna be IG worthy! But…
Sooner or later in the journaling community (probably sooner) you might hear a reference to a Traveler’s Notebook (abbreviated to TN) but what a Traveler’s Notebook is might not always be clear. Traveler’s Notebooks were created by Midori (now Traveler’s Company) in 2006. Surely people traveled and wrote about it in a notebook before then, but Midori put a stamp on it. It’s a well-crafted piece of leather, a few strings, and the rest is…
Bullet Journal (BuJo) Day is August 8th so you might have seen social media posts about the day. But a lot of people are intimidated by the process of bullet journaling so I’m going to give an overview! What is a bullet journal? Bullet Journal® (aka Bujo) is a mindfulness practice designed as a productivity system. It will meet you wherever you are to help you process the past, organize the present, and author your…
I don’t know about you, but I was soooo nervous the first time I went to a stationery meetup. What do I bring? What do I say? What do I do? What if I mess something up? What if I commit some sort of stationery sin? Worry not, because it’s time for a little etiquette lesson from your pal Toasty. I’m here to help you have a successful meetup and make stationery friends without stepping…
Our main goal at Houston Journal Society is community. That means supporting our local coffee shops and stationery stores, but mostly getting together to take time to journal. Sometimes it’s just a couple of people. Sometimes we take up several tables at a beirgarten. No matter where we set up, it’s always going to be a good time. The people in your life might understand your love of all things paper, but there’s something glorious…
Hey y’all! We are here to claim our space on the internet to have deeper discussions on all things pens, journals, and the journaling community. Yes, we love our meetups and Discord is our main home, but writers gonna write. If you’re interested in being a featured member or would like to know about sponsorship to the community by advertising your business, please contact us. Please follow along on Instagram as well.