Hi everyone. Today’s techo news is about a small technique by crew member Iwakuro on how he turns his drawings into stickers!

Iwakuro has two small daughters, and often draws with them.

He decided to turn animals he drew out of an encyclopedia with his children into stickers.



First of all, he draws using a pencil and colored pencil. (His tip is to not worry too much even if the proportions get wonky.) He then scans the drawing.



He lines up the scanned animals once shrinking them down in size, and prints them out on an A4 sized printable sticker paper. (Iwakuro used the A-one label seal in Matte white.)



Once he cuts them out with scissors, they’re all complete! He feels that when they turn out into these cute small stickers, the wonkiness doesn’t bother him anymore.



It might be fun to paste it in your techo,



or paste it on simple sticky notes.



The Anything Pocket (Clear) is perfect to store the stickers you haven’t used!

That’s all I’ve got today. I hope you have fun making your very own stickers to make your techo even more special!

Hi everyone, I'm Ono, and I manage fulfillment of wholesale orders from outside Japan and also communicate closely with the clients.

Here in the techo news, I'll occasionally be introducing you to stores that carry the Hobonichi Techo!

For todays news, I'll be talking about a shop named Little Craft Place. Eunice, who is one of the owners of this shop, kindly talked us through what their shop is like via email, and sent us several photos too.

*Please note that the photos do not reflect the latest shop status, so the items shown may not be in stock.




Their beautiful shop front.

Little Craft Place is located in Spring, Texas. They carry scrapbooking, stamp and paper crafting supplies, as well as a line of planner products as well - including the Hobonichi Techo!





They've been carrying the Hobonichi Techo since 2018, with Eunice initially being a Hobonichi Techo user herself.

　
Here is their corner of Hobonichi Techos. *Does not reflect their current stock status.

　

Her Hobonichi Techo is used as a journal for memory keeping. She tells us that she uses the Hobonichi Techo because of the flexibility of being able to use her medium of choice, and particularly paints with watercolor, acrylic and markers.


She kindly shared with us her spread. Look how dreamy they look!



According to her, "the Hobonichi papers are so amazing it allows me to do mixed media on my spreads, it's like scrapbooking and memory keeping but on-the-go, I can paint wherever and whenever I like."







Customers of Little Craft Shop are mainly planners, crafters, students, scrapbookers and people who like Japanese stationery.


They have this dreamy wall of Washi Tape . . .! I'd probably spend a good hour admiring it.

If you happen to live close by, stop by this beautiful shop!

There are other shops around the world that carry the Hobonichi Techo. You can check them from the link below.
>Where to Buy

That's all I've got for today! I'll occasionally be posting about other shops that carry the Hobonichi Techo, so I hope you look forward to it. See you next time!

About Little Craft Place

Address:
9702 Spring Cypress Rd, Suite 125, Spring, TX 77379, USA

Website:
https://www.littlecraftplace.com/

*Please contact them directly for their shop opening hours and current stock status.

Hi everyone. Today’s Techo News is about how Hobonichi Techo team member Hoshino uses her 5-Year Techo.

Hoshino started using her 5-Year Techo in 2018. She opens her techo after breakfast, looks back on her entries for the past few years, and briefly writes about how the day before was.

Below are Hoshino’s comments.


▲My 5-Year Techo set. Fountain pen that I choose depending on my mood, pencil board in place of a bookmark, and blotting paper.

To be honest, there were days when I didn't feel like writing. However, from my second year, it was interesting to be able to look back on the year before, and sometimes even find days where I had done the exact same thing. I’m glad I pushed through and wrote every day. I feel that the 5-Year Techo gets way more interesting from the second year.


▲My techo has puffed up nicely over the years.


★How I use the pages on the right side

The right side of the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo are blank pages. At first, I wasn’t sure how to use it, but have settled to write in things that didn’t fit in the left pages, or paste things that I want to look back on throughout the five years.

More recently I’ve decided to boldly paste thick postcards or things that fill up the whole page.


▲A postcard I received during lockdown.


▲A sticker that was pasted on a snack that my mother bought me, and a drawing that someone drew for me on a package that was sent to me at work.


▲A saying that was on a page-a-day calendar that made me surprised.


▲Lyrics of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” that I listened to for the first time in a long time.

I still have lots of blank pages though, so I might paste and write something everyday in my fifth year.

★The “My Lists” at the back of the book

The 5-Year Techo includes a page named “My Lists” where you can create lists of a theme of your choice.

I made a list of places I want to go during the five years, and I currently have ticked off one place, Russia.



It might not seem a lot considering I’ve used it for more than 3 years, but Russia is a country that I wanted to go since I was a teenager so it was a big step for me.




▲I always dreamed of going to Russia. My chosen destination was Vladivostok.

I also recommend writing a list of food to cheer you up when you’re feeling low.



These things are actually quite easy to forget when you’re not feeling your best.





The fun of the 5-Year Techo comes from seeing how you overlap with, or differ from your past self. 5-Year Techo users in your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year, how is your techo from the second year onwards?

Now might be a time when you're feeling less motivated to write everyday (and there's definitely no need to do so of course) but we hope you enjoy writing in it so it'll be more exciting for your future self!

Hi everyone! This is Asako again.

Recently, several Hobonichi Techo team members who like stationery got together to create a Stationery Club. Our club activities would include talking about stationery (goes without saying), find stationery that’s perfect for the techo, and think of new products. We hope to connect with stationery-lovers across the world to exchange information on stationery too.



Once we started talking, we couldn’t stop.
“The color scheme of the Clickart pens are on point!”
“The pens that recently came out from Muji have such cute colors!”
“I want to try out pen calligraphy that’s on the Tombow ABT website!”
“A pen that I can’t live without is the Frixion pen!”
“There seems to be lots of cute stationery shops in Ogikubo!”
... The topics are endless.



We went to buy a techo to use for our club activities at Tobichi. We all look serious here, picking out which pencil board we should go for.



There’ll be a new series of articles named the “Hobonichi Stationery Club” starting really soon. We’ve been taking photos and creating content for it recently.



Pens, stickers, pencil sharpeners, correction tape and magnets...



When we brought all of our favorite stationery, the table soon became a huge mess.



These are drawing tools that Annen loves using. All the colors make it fun to see!


These are a collection of Silly Bandz I own (who remembers them?)



We found ourselves exclaiming how cute each item is and putting the shoot on halt.



There are lots of content ideas we want to try. We already feel ourselves immersing ourselves into the world of stationery.



We also started an exchange diary - a diary where you write entries among a group of friends and pass it around (this was popular when we were in elementary school). This brings back all the memories...!

We aim to create a fun series and may be also asking you not only for your recommended stationery, but your thoughts on stationery and questions you may have. We hope you look forward to it!

Hi everyone! My name is Asako, and I'm in the techo team at Hobonichi. (The face you see on the top right is an icon of me - a crew member draws all of our faces into these cute icons when we enter the company. Rumour has it that even though we might not look like the icon at first, our faces will gradually look more like it as the years go by...! As for me, I think I look pretty much the same.)

You might be wondering what this page is. Well, this is a place where I and a few other techo team members will be discussing anything related to the techo, from usage examples of crew members, recommended stationery and more. I might be talking about the pens I'm currently using on one day, and introducing you to how to use the Cover on Cover on another. Please think of it as a really casual blog!

So, to start off, the Spring (April-start edition) Hobonichi Techos have been available for sale starting from this month. From a very cute Dorami-chan cover to the practical Weeks Case - Mokku, we've brought out products that might make your techo life a bit more fun. (You can see the previews from here)


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A question that might have popped in your minds is "Why April-start?"

In Japan, the new school year starts in April, unlike many countries with their school years starting in September. Fiscal years also start in April, making spring the season of the start of something new. While many of us (including myself) use the January-start techo, people working in the field of education, students, or parents whose child still goes to school, tend to opt for the April-start techos. It's also nice that you get a second chance to start a techo ? if you found out about a particular techo in February of March, you get to start using it in April without wasting the first few months!

So, that's all I've got for today. We aim to post every Wednesday, so I hope you look forward to future posts!