With so many lovely products to choose from, we set our Craven Stationery Team the challenge of choosing their favourite product of 2022.
Here are the results:
My top pick is Filofax's 'Refillable Notebook'.
I like the fact that its ruled paper can be removed and replaced, so you can re-organise your pages and replace them with new blank or ruled pages and keep the same notebook going, making it sustainable. The paper quality is good - as you might expect from Filofax. The cover designs are really attractive and you can get dividers, sticky notes and other accessories to match. They're also affordable, starting at just £11.
Richard's top pick is Basildon Bond writing paper and envelopes. Basildon Bond has been a top quality brand since 1911. It's not very easy to find these days and so he takes great pleasure in seeing customers' faces light up when they see this 'old favourite' on our shelves. Here at Craven Stationery we stock the writing pads and the envelopes in 2 sizes, in white, cream or blue. All the writing pads come with a ruled guide sheet to keep you on the straight and narrow!
Hayley chose Pilot's Frixion pens. She likes the fact that they are erasable, ideal when appointments keep changing in your diary. The fact that whatever the colour of the pen, refills are available, means you don't need to throw your pen away when it runs out. There are also a wide range of colours in the Frixion highlighters.
'Indecisive' Jenny couldn't make her mind up between the Bookaroo Pen Pouch in 'fern' and Staedtler Textsurfer Highlighter Pencils. She likes the pen pouch because everything stays in her notebook with the strong elastic and she can always find a pen when she needs one. There are some lovely colours to choose from but in the end she decided on 'fern'. She also likes the fact that there are other accessories in the Bookaroo range to mix and match.
In her words, "The textsurfer revolutionised my note-taking! No more horrible ink or pen smudges - they don't dry out and I can sharpen them if I really want to make a point!"
What would you choose?
