• mixed media,  moleskine

    Moleskine Updates 2 *

    Had this one early this year, but I dunno why I kept it unpublished. Maybe ’twas the messy background.

    My moleskine: 33 pages more to go.

    I have people asking me what is Moleskine. I have compiled information from Moleskine website and basically copied, edited and paste it in here for your reading convenience.

    This little black notebook, with its typical rounded corners, elastic closure, and expandable inner pocket, was originally a nameless object. It was produced by a small French bookbinder, that supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary and artistic avant-garde for more than a century. Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.

    In the mid-1980s, however, it no longer became available. In his book “Songlines”, Bruce Chatwin tells us the whole story of his favourite notebook, which he nicknamed “Moleskine”. In 1986, the original manufacturer – a family operating in Tours – closed down forever: “Le vrai moleskine n’est plus” are the lapidary words he puts into the mouth of the owner of the stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comédie – also a legendary spot – where Chatwin stocked up on the notebooks. The English writer-traveller bought up all the “Moleskines” that he could find, but they were not enough.

    Then in 1998, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life under the name “Moleskine”.

    You can view types of Moleskine here: Moleskine Catalogue

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    Yohanis! click on above image to see her illustrations!

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    Awards for me and you too *

    Milkberry awarded me with “I Love your Blog” Award on 16 November! Yay! Thank you so much Milkberry! This award comes with rules:
    1. The nominated is allowed to put the picture on their blogs.
    2. Link to the person who awarded you.
    3. Nominate seven other people and link to them.
    4. Leave a message on those people’s blog to make them aware that they’re nominated.

    I’m not going to just nominate seven people but I am nominating…all of you in my blogroll! Yay!

    Here’s a loose award without the illustration for your blog:

    On 18 November, Yoon See awarded me with this Arte y Pico Award! Thank you so much Yoon See! “Arte y Pico” is a phrase that roughly translates as,”The Maximum, The Peak!” Here are ‘the rules’ for The ARTE y PICO Award:
    1. Show the award.
    2. The name of the person who gave it to you and a link back to their blog.
    3. Pick 5 blogs you think deserve this award for: creativity, design, interesting material and their contribution/participation to the blog community.
    4. List the author’s name and link to their blog.
    5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you’ve selected.Link back to the original Arte y Pico BLOG, so all will know the origin of the award.

    I am passing this award to Bem69, Milkberry, Sarah Joan Mokhtar, Ken Ong and Anna! Below is a loose one you can put up in your blog:

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    Fandi!