Some screenshots from Hobonichi news last night. A few days ago, Naoko from Hobonichi stopped by our shop, and she made a blog post about Yoseka 😊 It was great meeting Naoko and it was really cool to learn more about the story and interesting facts about Hobonichi. The original link to the post is here: https://www.1101.com/pl/2020techo_news/statuses/355922


Three fun new stationery books for browsing. From left to right: .Hobonichi 2020 guide book:The guide book is published yearly by Hobonichi. Every year, they interview many Hobonichi users and showcase how they use their planners. It’s always fun to see how everyone uses their planners differently, incorporating to different jobs and different styles. This year, they feature the factory behind the scene and also a list of portable stationery that could go well with your planner.Hobby Stationery Box Vol 51:The 51st volume feature fountain inks. This issue includes two extensive charts of ink from many brands and local special edition...

We are so excited to share with you all that Soraya will be joining us part time at the shop on Wednesdays and Thursdays! Soraya is an extremely talented embroidery artist and graphic designer living in Sunnyside. She creates amazing embroidery pieces you can find on her Etsy page and has taught many workshops where she teaches others her craft! Everyone should check out her BEAUTIFUL work @sorayadesignsthings Next time you pass by the shop, feel free to come in and say hello 🙂

In August, we celebrated our one year and hosted a Traveler’s Notebook meetup, Writing Night and a drawing night. It was a month full of events and we really appreciate everyone who stopped by 😊 The lovely drawing in the middle is by Meagan @meaganillustrates next to all the fun photos and Traveler’s Stamp Caravan. Among all the events, we have many new arrivals that we are really excited about. From top left to bottom right:Hobonichi plannersMidori 1Day 1Page Planner: A6 and A5mt TapeSailor Shikiori inksBlackwing Volume 42Hi-Tec-C in 19 colorsflake stickersplanner stickersSailor Pro Gear Slim in many colorsGraphGear 1000 0.3-0.9mm Sailor Pro...

Happy Labor Day Weekend everybody! Since Daisy recently shared the planners she’s been using this year, I thought maybe I could share my planner routine with everyone too. This year, I have been using the Hobonichi Cousin to organize my monthly goals and daily todos. Hobonichi is known for its one day a page format, featuring weekly, monthly, yearly overviews. It’s dated with a strict but well thought out format. I’m more of a to-do type of planner. The daily pages have been helpful for me to break things down and to identify what’s achievable in a day. I used...

Classic Hi-Tec-C by Pilot and it’s 19 colors at Yoseka. Hi-Tec-C is a classic gel pen that goes way back to 1994. Before that in the 80s, Pilot came out with Hi-Tecpoint rollerball series with a special mechanism that locks a tiny metal rollerball securely at the top of it’s needle point pen tip. Hi-Tec-C is inspired by G series gel pen (which was probably to rival Signo), combining with the tip of Hi-Tecpoint.Growing up in Taiwan in the 90s, there were always two camps — either Hi-Tec-C or Uni-Ball Signo. Both brands are really smooth and can write really...

Many Midori planners arrived yesterday and we will have more coming to our shop in the next few weeks. Thought it would be fun to share some of the planners that I’ve been using this year, since the newly arrived planners are actually what I have been using a lot this year! Midori Minimal Diary Monthly — for my monthly planning, appointments, tracking friend’s birthdays and monthly goals. Midori Diary A5 — for my daily todo lists. Traveler’s Notebook — for daily journaling. I love to use FriXion pens and highlighters in my monthly planner since FriXion pens are erasable...

One of the tools we love to use at the shop is Dot Liner. Dot Liner is an adhesive tape roller and it was released in 2005 by Kokuyo. As you roll, the double-sided tape automatically rolls out and sticks to the surface. Since the tape is sticky on both sides, dispensing became a challenge when they first developed the idea. To solve this challenge, Kokuyo came up with dotted glue on the tape. If you look closely, the tiny blue glue dots are arranged with spacing in between. These dots not only make it easy to dispense right away,...

Thank you to everyone who sent us best wishes and stopped by to celebrate our first year with us. We made it through the first year because of your support throughout the year. And here’s to many more to come! 🎉  

The final artist we want to share is Sen @vespa0714. Sen custom made two pens for our shop — a fountain pen and a glass nib fountain pen. When you walk to the center of our testing table, you see our Yoseka Notebook, and Sen’s Classic Fountain Pen and Classic Glass Nib Fountain Pen that he made for our shop. Sen’s pens are clean, artistic, unique, and their designs stand out (Click on his profile @vespa0714 to check more cool pens) 
Sen hand crafts and designs each pen. His pens are an expression of years of craftsmanship with the finest materials. He specializes...