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I love notebooks too, and have lots of little ones in many places. The notes I come across often seem like someone else’s. I need one main notebook to keep track of the little ones, lol. I have your book ‘100 Days of the Artist is Present’ - can’t wait for your memoir!

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Apr 2Liked by B.A. Lampman

Question: on your 2024 notebook is that cat being drawn by a tiny carrot?

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Yea! Notebooks rule! I always have one on the go too! PS. I like the brush and ink text in Taking Note.

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I'm a few pages into a thick new notebook for my novel and love doing my notebook work. But I also use cheap, slim 60-page notebooks with kraft covers for other projects that don't need so many pages. I like how they accumulate too.

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A notebook - I have so many! So many on the go at any given time that it's embarrassing. Yesterday I started reading some textile theory that I wanted to take notes about, and wondered if I needed to start another notebook for that! Fortunately, I realized that it fits with my other fibre work and I already have a notebook for that on the go.

I have recently started making notebooks because I'm learning bookbinding. As soon as I have finished one, I want to start writing in it right away - it's interesting how much making my own books is compelling me to write and collage all of a sudden. We will see where that goes.

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Apr 2Liked by B.A. Lampman

I love you!!

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Apr 2Liked by B.A. Lampman

I was so excited to see my name in your handwriting!

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Thanks for this gentle reminder. I have a beautiful Hobonichi waiting for me to journal in it—all I need to do is show up.

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Beautiful work 👏🏼💗🙌🏽 my last few years of cheapo notebooks are devoted to very rough writing ✍️ tracking the insane ramblings of my mother’s dementia and her care needs. You and I experienced a similar childhood in the same era, but if your Dad stuck around and solved all issues with yelling and punching. I love your visual storytelling style(s) and wish I’d seen your show. A balm to my ongoing adventure with my mom 😱😂🤔

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