As I'm sure regular readers know - I am a complete list lover. I have lists for everything and my to do lists run my life for me. It's the only way to ensure that everything in this busy household gets done. In the past my lists have often just ended up as part of my main notebooks that are in use at the time, but one recent review item from Bureau Direct seems to have changed things. Let me introduce the Mark's Storage it A6 notebook. With the innovative plastic cover with a ziplock section where you can keep (and still use) your smart phone, it's certainly different from many other ... read more
Traditional handwritten letters #StationeryWednesday
It's a while ago now since Nickie and I shared what was in our January review packages from Bureau Direct and since then I've just been so busy using the stationery that I've struggled to find time to actually review it! To me though that's a sign of good stationery - something that just gets used because it's so perfect for the job, not just because you're reviewing it. Firstly I was sent the Crown Mill A5 Writing Set. Now, the main reason for asking to review this was to fit in with one of my new year's resolutions which was to sent more handwritten letters to friends in the post. As ... read more
Stationery Chat #StationeryWednesday
It's fair to say that I'm absolutely loving working with Bureau Direct reviewing their stationery products. I might even go as far as saying it's a dream job. Our latest review parcels arrived today so fellow Bureau Direct blogger Nickie from Typecast and I decided to get together and have a chat about what we received. Disclaimer: The Bureau Direct products featured in this video were received for review unless stated otherwise. ... read more
When maps meet stationery – part 2 #StationeryWednesday
Don't you just love it when two of your favourite things come together? I got all excited back in November with the vintage map washi tape that I found at Bureau Direct, but now I think the team there must have realised that a love of stationery and maps goes hand in hand as look at what I've found now. This Paperways Handy MemoPad comes with a map of Europe on it and is just the perfect size for keeping handy in the kitchen and writing a shopping list or similar on. There's a world map version too (although the map is obviously at 90 degrees to the way up you'd normally have the pad - ... read more
When notebooks go technical… #StationeryWednesday
When you think of notebooks in this modern age they're often seen as being a bit old fashioned and quaint, especially when you talk to people who keep all their notes digitally on their smart phone. But then again many of us like this old fashioned way of connecting pen with paper and I find that my brain flows somewhat better with a pen in my hand than it does at the keyboard. Possibly a strange thing for a blogger to say, but I find that some of my best blog posts come when I've sat down and made handwritten notes first. In these days of cloud computing and backing up everything though ... read more
Rediscovering my love of a fountain pen #StationeryWednesday
As regular readers of Being Mrs C will know, I am delighted to be part of a team of six bloggers that are currently working with Bureau Direct - retails of some of the most gorgeous stationery products I've ever seen. But to me stationery isn't just about things that look good, whilst that is still important. It's about functionality. This has to be the case when it comes to pens in particular. There's no point in having a pen that looks good if it's horrible to write with. This month my choice of review items from Bureau Direct was very much on the functional side of things. After my ... read more
Notebooks, notebooks everywhere… #LOVEstationery
As someone who writes notes about pretty much everything in life it does sometimes feel that my house is full of notebooks - but it's something I'm definitely not complaining about. I've always been someone who likes to write things down in the old-fashioned way, whether it be craft ideas, lists of things that need doing, or just things I need to remember and I always seem to have several notebooks on the go. It was therefore obvious that I was going to choose a notebook or two to go in my first stationery order from Bureau Direct. But, the decision over which to choose took me a while to ... read more
What happens when a stationery addict discovers Bureau Direct #LOVEstationery
I think I must have been in Year 1 at primary school when I first discovered that stationery could be so much more than just functional pencils and sheets of plain paper. There I was one day when Lucie came in with a pretty floral pencil case. Suddenly this strange urge over took me and I just knew that I needed a matching one. I remember dragging my mum to the local branch of WH Smiths and desperately scanning the shelves to find one the same. I failed. My mum even tried to make one for me from the description I gave her, and whilst it was nice it just wasn't the same. But, my eyes had ... read more