Depending on how much jingle is in the bottom of my pocketbook usually dictates what my next notebook purchase will be. For work {because I take a lot of notes} I stick to the Composition books. A few downsides: pages can be thin, college rule is hard to find, but in the end they get the job done (and the pages don’t fall out).  However, Rhodia and Moleskines are my favorites.  In an age of emails, blogs (I’ll be the first to admit this has totally stolen from my creative juices that might have otherwise gone into a little sketch notebook), Blackberries, iPhones, voice recorders, even post-it notes… technology and short-cuts have been detrimental to the true art of journaling.  Even in college I can remember being able to "buy notes" at the end of the semester (which I think is a total shame).

Look what I found tonight- what I absolutely LOVE is knowing what the writing/drawing instrument was. 

"This is an old stone barn that sits on a hiway on the way into my home town of Cedar Falls IA. I’ve always thought it was a pretty cool example of architecture of the period." – Brian Page
"It was done in one afternoon for the wandering Moleskine project on a Moleskine Large Sketchbook with my mechanical pencil .07 lead."

In this hurried, digital age we’re in, I try to just slow things down a bit and just. Observe and record life in my moleskin. - Will Chau
Moleskine Plain Book with ink pen (pilot precise) and watercolor pencil.

Another Will Chau. Moleskine Plain Book with ink pen (pilot precise) and watercolor pencil.

I’m a portrait artist, and I use my Moleskine to practice my drawing skills. I can use the elastic band to hold a reference photo, and draw on the opposite page. The sketchbook is small and easy to carry, and serves as a mini-portfolio: whenever I take it out to work on something, people usually want to look at it, and I end up handing out a few cards. What could be better? The paper is very good quality, and the off-white color gives a classical feel to a drawing from the outset. - Jennifer Flint
Moleskine Large Sketch Book using graphite with colored pencil overlay.

This is my journal entry after a day spent exploring Guanajuato, Mexico, and a glimpse of the guava and cactus around me. – Sean Kane

Colored pencil and my Moleskine Sketchbook.

This painted sketch is of a very comfortable chair that has been in my family since around the 1920s. I’m rarely not sitting in it, so this is a unique vantage point! – Sean Kane

Moleskine Sketchbook with acrylic paint.   

What is in your notebook??