Review: Benwuyou Five Hole Punch

 In Japan, its more common to find 20 ring files than the usual 6 ring files. However its hard to find the right type of hole punch. Usually its made of metal fully making it very expensive or you have to resort to buying a one hole punch and punching out all the holes by yourself. Even then, those are usually quite bulky and hard to store. Not to mention quite tedious to use.

Recently, I chanced upon this 

5 Hole Punch

To use simply line your paper against the guide on the long part of the punch.

After pushing down on the top part, you will have 5 holes punched out.

To punch more holes like 20 holes for your file, simply feed the paper back in and line it up as belows.

To empty the punched out paper, simply pop the bottom lid open. 

At first I was certainly dubious as to how well this could work but it does the job perfectly!

Its also lighter and more compact than most other options whilst being easier to use as well.

What do you think?

Would you try it? 

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May 2025 Printable

 

May 2025 Printable 

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Review: King Jim Tepra RH24 Half Cutter

 Have you ever bought something vaguely useful but turns out to be..well..extremely useful?

I have been organizing my things recently and printing tons of labels on my label maker. And for anyone who uses one, you must know how troublesome it is to peel the labels off the release paper when its so small. 

As it turns out, there is a tool sold specifically for helping with that!

King Jim Tepra RH24 Half Cutter

Here is how it looks like out of the box

As the name suggests, what the cutter does is cut the labels halfway aka only cutting the release paper, making it easier to peel the label off. 

All you need to do is insert the label and "cut" it by snipping it once.

As you can see, the yellow release paper has been cut and its a lot easier to peel it off. 

And yes, that is actually a sticker [flake seal] in the picture. In other words, it totally works for those troublesome flake stickers too.

But since the cutter is designed for thin labels, what about big flake stickers that do not fit in it?

All you have to do is clip the corner!

The clipped corner is all you need to peel the sticker easily!!

Once I unlocked this hidden usage, I found myself using this cutter almost daily!

As a matter of fact, I have deemed it part of my journaling must haves!

What do you think?

Will you try it?

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Review: A4 Foldable Clipboard by Abel

 

I handle a lot of paperwork/documents so I'm always in need of files and clipboards. 

I picked up this A4 foldable clipboard by Abel in Taiwan and design award label piqued my interest. 

The key point of this clipboard is that it holds full size A4 paper in an A5 footprint, then opens up into a full feature clipboard. 

The material is a strong hard plastic which aids writing, especially if you're outside or on your feet. 

There's a clip, of course and a rubber band on the other end to secure your documents. 

So you can use it as an A4 board or as a book style with A5 pages. 

The clipboard holds up to 30 sheets. 

I tested with 15 sheets and it neatly and comfortably folded. 

It protects the documents well and it's as thick as a notebook so it would fit in a workbag nicely. 

Did I mention it has a pen holder. 

Abel thought of everything, I can see why it won a design award. 

I can see myself using this clipboard a lot. 

It looks good and is really function. 

The best part? It only cost around USD5, I should have purchased an extra! 

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Review: Fabric sticky notes "NUUN" by Kanmido

Do you use sticky notes as tabs in your journals or books?

Since I use the monthly calendar + free pages diary from MD, I often need to flip between the two areas monthly. To make it easier, I started placing sticky notes for fast access like index tabs. However the conventional ones made of paper or film get wrinkled or crushed easily during transport. In the pursuit of something more durable, I found these.

NUUN

Fabric like sticky notes

Available in two types: "Mark" and "Tab".

"Mark" is easy to use as a bookmark on the pages of your planner or notebook, while "Tab" is the perfect size to use as an index.

You can choose the type that best suits your usage scene and where you want to stick it.

Each pack comes with 3 different colors in 3 sets.

They can be separated for easy transport.

The fabric material of NUUN feels very high quality and matches perfectly with leather or fabric-covered diaries and notebooks.

Though a bit pricey than usual sticky notes, these are much more durable and can be used repeatedly for a long time. They use adhesive that doesn't lose its adhesive power even after repeated sticking and peeling, so you can use them for longer than regular sticky notes.

What do you think?

Would you try them?

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April 2025 Printable

Spring! Spring! Spring!

Flowers are blooming and the weather is getting warmer!

Enjoy our spring themed printable!

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Review: SERIA 100yen shop "Portable Double Sided Tape"

Do you journal on the go? 

Then you must have also encountered times when the standard stick glue or glue tape didn't quite work with things you want to attach to your journal. So do you then have to carry a whole roll of double sided tape? Well now you don't have to!

At SERIA a Japanese 100yen shop, I found "portable" double sided tape!

A simple and fairly fetching design. The case is made out of sturdy card stock.

Since the cover is plain, you can also customize it with stickers etc

There are 10 sheets inside each case.

If you prefer, you can always just carry one sheet instead of the whole case.

Each sheet has 26 precut pieces of double sided tape.

A compact easy to store/carry item.

This has become a must have in my travel bag. 

Not just for journaling or scrapbooking either! 

It has been useful for things like resealing open packets or patch fixing something on the go.

Highly recommended!

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Bungu Joshi in Osaka 2025 Event Report

It's been awhile since I've attended a stationery event and when I found out that I would be in Osaka when Bungu Joshi would be happening, I carved out a few hours in my itinerary to go attend. 

I found out about the event a week before but didn't buy my ticket until the day before.

Tickets were easily available on KKday. I used the app and it gave me a QR code for entry.  

We went on a friday and the event started at 10am. 

Since we were driving, we arrived around 10am and were able to find car parking in the event building (ATC Hall) easily. 

We followed the signs for the entrace and we were ushered through to scan our QR codes, we then went down a hallway to pick up shopping bags (for all your purchases) and brochures.

Payment for items was in a separate area outside of the event space and all your purchases were calculated at once, which meant you did not have to struggle with payment at each booth and could just grab and go if you wanted to.

There were 2 halls, one on each side. I don't think there was any particular theme for either hall and vendors with the same product categories were spread out and not concentrated in an area, which meant you had to walk the entire event to properly see everything on offer.

I recommend setting aside at least 3 hours if you wanted to take your time to browse and also if you wanted to make custom notebooks/items. 

Unfortunately, I only had 2 hours so I did have to speed run some parts of the event hall.  

There were a lot of wax seals.

I'm really trying not to add these to my collection, so I skipped most of these booths. 

There were plenty of stickers and notebooks, these booths were often the most crowded and hard to get to. 

I love themed stationery and the packaging for these coffee stickers/notepaper was so good~!

There was a selection of custom booths, like this custom ballpoint pen where you picked a different colour/length for each portion of a pen. See top right for some examples. 

Bungu joshi also had it's own room where they sold original merchandise, some were collaborations with brands such as deco rush tape. The room also had mini games and photo spots!

A lot of booths had signs with QR codes for you to scan. 

Most of them had a freebie if you followed their social media, it was usually a postcard or a sticker they had made specially for the event. 

There were a few interesting products, like a golfball stamp so you could identify your golfball, eyeliners, which made sense if you think about it.

These cup tops were cute but I couldn't think of a reason I would need to use them so I didn't end up picking them up. 

Retro stationery was also still very much a thing. These blackboard dusters doubled up as screen cleaners and I thought that was super cute. 

So much nostalgia! I remember these glue pots from when I was in primary school.

Bungu Joshi was really great! I saw a lot of new stationery, new brands as well as established brands with new products so it was 2 hours well spent. 

If you wanted to do a big stationery shop and you're in the area of a Bungu Joshi, I recommend taking a look! Your wallet might not thank you after but it'll be worth it!

What other stationery events have you attended? I'd love to hear.

 

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Review: Hapila! [DAISO] Custom Memo Notepad

Like many others, my wallet is often overflowing with cards. And it makes it quite heavy. So sometimes when I only need one or two cards, its troublesome to carry my entire wallet. Even more so when I hardly use cash these days since everywhere accepts mobile payments. So when I chanced upon this, I decided to get it.

Custom Memo Notepad

Featuring a clear pocket on the front.

Pocket size: 92mm x 70mm

Overall size: 110mm x 76mm

What it looks like inside:

Standard grid paper

Cardboard page on the back for writing ease

The pocket is surprisingly useful!

You can use it for ID like office Id and student Id.

Or just a store point card / membership card.

You can use it for travel cards too.

And of course, this memo pad was designed for hobby trading cards [idol cards, anime cards, game cards]

You can customize it in many ways.

What do you think?

Would you get this?

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March 2025 Printable

 

March 2025 Printable 

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Review: Kept Quiera Highlighter Tape (Raymay)

I've reviewed a few tape highlighters and the technology  keeps getting better. 

This one from Raymay's Kept line is my new favourite. 

The Quiera highlighter is a dual sided tape highlighter. 

It's 5mm wide and you get 3m of each colour. 
It also claims to be erasable, which is pretty useful. 

 

The tape is so easy to use unlike a previous tape that I tried, where the highlighter colour would not stick on to the paper easily. 

The Quiera works smooth and adheres properly. 

I also did not expect the colour to be that pigmented but it looks like or even better than a marker type highlighter. 

The colours work well when used on top of writing or even when you've applied the colour before writing. Having the option to use it whenever you need to is a great feature.

You can also layer the colours and create a third colour, i.e blue and yellow makes green and you can create emphasis by layering on several of the same colour. 

This is now my new favourite highlighter and is definitely staying on  my desk from now on. 

What do you think? Does the highlighter tape concept appeal to you? 

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