sara

this notebook is just the plain 30 page a5 grid notebook from muji, the one that's £1.50. its fantastic for fountain pens, honestly! it doesn't show as many properties as tomoe river, life or midori md (+ cotton), of course, but it shows a surprising amount considering the price! it doesn't have any bleed through or even much show through on my heavy applications of inks for my dates- and those put more ink on the page than you might think. it doesn't even feather with diamine cinnabun (scented) when i use it in fine sailor and kaweco pens!

it has a lovely tooth, especially feeling fantastic with my sailors, the grid is faint and thin enough to not compete with my handwriting, and the colour is an interesting soft white- definitely more cream that white, but also slightly greyed. similar to the midori md cotton, but just slightly... darker, not more cream.

i admittedly have been struggling a lot with glueing things in and warping the pages pretty nastily, as i'm sure is visible, but that isn't actually the paper's fault; it's mine for being bad at using the coccoina paste glue. with a gluestick or glue pen, everything is fine.