Where Our Vacation Began (and What I Chose to Bring With Me)

We didn’t rush into the trip.

The first stop was quiet… familiar.

NBS.

Not for anything urgent.
Just to wander a little… and see what felt right to bring with me for the next few days.

I’ve always had a love affair with stationery even as a child. So it’s no wonder that I still get drawn to bookstores.

There were so many interesting pens on display.

I’m partial to Zebra pens. It was so hard not to put everything in my basket.

Faber Castell has their own shelf. I graduated from this brand already. 😏

I was amazed to see this whole shelf dedicated to Elmer’s Slime! That means slime is still a thing?

This branch carries a lot of materials for scrapbooking and other crafts and hobbies.

The stickers didn’t catch my eye, though.

But this Sanrio display did.

Look how cute this is!

Zebra had several display shelves throughout the store. They had all the Mildliners and Clickart pens.

Another area I like visiting is the art supplies.

Look at al the pastel desk supplies!

Even the tape dispensers are soooo cute! These are handheld dispensers. I didn’t get any because I need them to be standing on their own when I craft.

And of course, they had all the pretty notebooks and all the pretty journals

I wanted these Hello Kitty notepads, but I took a deep breath and said, “self-control.” Pat on the back for me.

They had several designs of these Jujutsu Kaisen notepads.

Lovely notebooks that would go well with the Zebra pens on my cover photo.

Connected to the main store is ART BAR.

I wanted the watercolors above, but they were not in my budget that day. I was looking for something else, unfortunately, it wasn’t there.

These watercolour pencils were also interesting, but I’m not sure if I want to continue doing art with watercolour pencils. I prefer watercolors.

I will leave you with these collectible erasers from NBS.

They were so cute, but none called to me.

I was telling my friend how I was so overwhelmed when we first entered. That I was like a kid in a candy store and I wanted to buy everything. But after browsing, I only ended up with one item.

And I was happy.

And that was enough.

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'Til my next post,

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Lady E

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