“I first found moleskine whehn I moved to live in Italy some years ago. I always had a love of pens. since being a little kid: so I was ineveitbaly drawn to art shops and the like: I found a shop on the Corso Vannucci in Perugia where they had the full range!: I loved the little note books, but at first only bought the very slim notebooks, having used these as notes for shopping etc. I felt that this was an unworthy use of them (you know EXACTLY what I mean!!) so I bought some of the ‘proper’ notebooks. I moved back to Mnachester after a split in my long term relatioship: and encouraged by a therapist I began to use these books as a journal: but then only a month ago I had a cathartic moment: I realised that I was using the norebooks to catalogue negative stuff in the main and suddenly realised that I could and should use them to record things that happen; things I’ve seen etc. I ‘m also a photopgrapher and have takem to posting small versions of some of my work in the book,as well as newspaper cuttings etc : another thing I’ve always wanted to do was to draw, so that’s also been included in the mix! I have to say that it has become a part of my life in only a month! No time ever seems wasted, and the pleasure of recording ‘my life’ is very therapeutic!”
Rowland @ The Moleskine Obsession
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