As a stationery lover, I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. How many stores did you walk into and smell all of the scents of erasers and pencils? All the good stuff adorned the shelves, like stickers, notebooks and pads, pens, pencils, erasers, to pencil cases and bags. Even newsagents had small collections of something. And then, in the ’90s, came Bic pens with all kinds of colours and designs. And even though I used mine, I kept the bodies to remember the good times by.

Whether Granny Mays in the ’80s and ’90s, or Smiggle and Typo now, stationery shops were part of my childhood.

But…then came adulthood. And while stores closed down, and other shops stopped selling pretty things, they came back with slow start around ten years ago.

Typo emerged as a front runner of pretty stationery and I acquired a lot of notebooks I never used. Why? Because the covers were pretty.

Department and chain stores would have small stationery items, matching sets, such as notebooks, rulers, stickers, pens and pencils. And then stores started selling eraser sets…oh my. My rubber collection gained quite a few out of that.

Then came the spending bonanza. Planners, and matching accoutrement, meant I spent around $3,000 on stickers, paper, and planners from America and here in Aus.

Yikes! I could have that $3,000 now.

So, I decided to start culling and cutting, and using what I could to get my money’s worth.

The planner paper has been used, along with stickers and some other items, some items have been sold on eBay, others are up for sale on eBay, but my planners stay firmly in my office. It’s the excess I don’t need.

And then I refined my collection even more.

I was going to only to collect stationery that had to do with writing and jewellery. The two areas that exist in my life. Any stationery had to have something to do with either. With images on the cover of jewels and gems, or sayings to do with writing and books.

Well, planners kept on coming, and I gained a few more with typewriters or pens on the cover, especially thanks to The Happy Planner and Kikki K.

 

I have since divided my collections into two Sistema Containers. One for my writing influenced stationery, one for my jewellery and gemstone influenced stationery.

Of course, I do have others bulging at the seems full of pink and blue notebooks (because they’re my favourite colours and are glittered), or full of stickers I’m keeping.

But slowly, the writing container is being added to, like with my new quill collection.

And now, besides my stationery, I also have “writer/author” collections thanks to Murder, She Wrote and Castle. I also collected Romancing the Stone, Jewel of The Nile, and Secret Window on DVD. I’m being picky about what movies I buy. I have to like them to buy them. I’ve posted everything over on my style site, Jewel Divas Style, but I’ll post the relevant ones here.

 

And, for some reason, this year I’ve started looking for other “author” collectibles, and it began with Jane Austen. Thankfully, I had the sense to cull the shopping carts in Amazon and eBay, and only buy anything referring to stationery except for the first three items I purchased, but the books are cute. There are a few little cutesy books on Jane, plus a gorgeous boardgame that I might pass on, but they’re still in my Amazon shopping list. And did you know there were two different figurines of Jane? I found them both on eBay and bought them under the asking price. There’s also a Pop Funko, but they’re retailing around $150-$180 as it’s an older model. I won’t go crazy on this collection. As with my MSW, and Castle collections, the items are limited. Unlike my Jackie Collins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Dana Girls, and Trixie Belden collections, and so on and so forth…

In my searches I came across a whole hoard of other “author” collectibles, from Edgar Allan Poe, to Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, and Willy Shakespeare to name a few. Thankfully, those collections will be small, a couple of notebooks at least, a decent size collection at most. Did you know there are 4 Pop funkos of Stephen King? And 2 of Edgar Allan Poe? Which I now have. And since there is no Mary Shelley Funko, I bought a Frankenstein instead. The poor thing, he’s standing there with a daisy in his hand and he glows in the dark.

You can see my whole collection to date on my Pinterest board mostly posted from my Jewel Divas Style blog when I blogged about my latest aquistions. I’ve also added all of the pens, notebooks, writing books, and my beloved folios for storing my writing pen names notes and ideas, that I’ve bought.

Once all of the goodies come in, and there are many, I’ll be doing videos for TikTok, which I’ll add to the posts here when I do them.

Until then!