Since our first trip on a plane with LBG (then PD) we have travelled as a family with remarkably few incidents. Now that The Girls are a touch older they are having more input into where we travel and what we do whilst we are there.
As part of my #52Challenges project this year, I used this month’s review with Bureau Direct to facilitate our Family Travel Journal for 2015. Over the year we will be keeping the various ticket stubs, flyers and many many photographs to create a record of our adventures near and far.
It will allow The Girls to have a tangible object to take into school to share with their classes. It will force me to make hard copies of some of the hundreds of pictures I take throughout the year and it will allow us to sit by the fire and flick through the pages of the memories we have created this year.
The items I ordered from Bureau Direct are:
Mark’s Trip Safety Card Folder
as well as items I have ordered previously including Coccoina Adhesive Paste, MT tapes used in a DH’s birthday project, and the various pens, pencils and things The Girls are using to embellish our journal.
The Legal pad was more for me, making notes and so forth. I have always loved the yellow of a legal pad and much prefer that the paper is torn from the pad at the top rather than along the side. It’s ideal for keeping track of the things you need to remember.
Likewise the Marks Card Folder is more for planning than carrying out. It carries all the slips of paper that you need to keep together and protects them from the elements, not to mention coffee stains and accidental breakfast cereal spillages that punctuate a life in which everything happens at the kitchen table. It also holds the list for my #52challenges, and the distinctive design ensures it doesn’t get lost amongst papers or “borrowed” by a small child.
The Travel journal is a thing of beauty. A chic brown cover that can be left in all it’s glory or decorated to within an inch of it’s life, the 80 pages open flat to allow you to easily affix pictures, souvenirs and add sketches, writing and embellishments. The pages are a mix of plain black for sticking in pictures, and white lined paper for notations. It really is well-thought-through design.
And may I just say how cute the Marks Sticky Notes are? Too cute for me to want to write anything on them though, of course, there is room. They are all designed like cutesy little ticket stubs so ideal our travel-themed project.
And may I just say that the Adhesive paste (it’s potato starch apparently) is a feast for the senses. A) er, hello, packaging. Could it be any more glorious? There’s a little hole in the centre of the tin so that the teeny little brush can sit in there ready for use. B)smell. If you like marzipan you are going to LOVE finding an excuse to use this. It’s stationery candy.
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*Disclosure: I work with a crack team of Stationery Lovers who review items on a monthly basis with Bureau Direct. I do not get paid, though my opinions are honest, but I get the items for free for the purposes of writing the reviews. (And if DH asks, all the extras I buy are free too, ‘kay?!)
Go on! You know you want to tell me what you think!