Daycraft: Chromatic Days 2010 Diary

This is Daycraft’s Chromatic Days 2010 Diary. It has a lovely soft and flexible bright yellow cover. Although I will say it marks easy. The diary is A6 in size (106mm x 150mm) and very slimline. One of the most attractive things about the diary is of course the Chromatic edges:

The actual diary itself is week per page and the diary is 72 weeks starting on 31 August 2009 – it spans a long time and the diary is no thicker for it. Personally I think it is a great idea, unfortunately as I only got the diary this month I”ve not been able to take advantage of the longer time frame. But on a more positive note, I’ve been using it instead of my flora and fauna diary. Here is what it looks like on the inside….

Just look at the lovely colours Makes my Day.

Daycraft notebooks and Diaries are not yet available in Europe / UK. But I got sent these diaries to review and help raise awareness of them as they are looking to find distributors in the over here.

I will now be doing the first giveaway next week, so come again…

The Flora and Fauna Diary

I know I am late with the Diary Review, but they do have a notebook exactly the same style and just a little thicker and with the same paper which you may be interested in if you’re not in the market for a diary. The notebook (and the paper) is from Cavallini & Co.

I love the brightly coloured front cover, which has a vintage but wacky feel to it. The inside cover, rather than being plain is also highly patterned:

Inside the diary we have all the usual additions: personal details, important dates, international dialling codes, time differences, tube map and national rail map. I love the fact that it has a national rail map – that is actually of use to me, more so that the tube (london underground) map, because I rarely go to London.

Now for the diary pages: They are organised in week view. I like my pocket diary to be week view as I can cart it around in my purse and all I need to do is simply note things I’m doing, or look things up to see if I’m free, my larger diaries are the day view ones.

You get a good amount of space in each day, and of course like most weekly view diaries the weekend space is smaller. The paper is good thick cream paper withstanding the use of ink gel and fountain pens with no show through. Smooth and easy to write on.

Compared to last years diary? Well last year I had a moleskine (weekly view) diary different layout so I’m not going to compare on that front, although I did enjoy the space to do a to-do list. But this year, now that I am no longer a student I do have more of a need for space in each individual day, so it works out well. The paper seems thinner in the moleskine, although I cannot say for sure.

Size wise the moleskine is more pocket friendly, but the Cavallini is slightly more      compacted and is thinner (as it lacks a pocket in the back cover).

Cavallini have a wide range of products available in several main themes (one of which is Flora and Fauna featured here).

These products can be bought in Waterstones, The Pod Company and Papernation.

2010 Diary: A5 from Funkypigeon

I’ve mention Funky pigeon before with regards to Christmas Cards. But yesterday I got an A5 Diary from them:

Basic, professional looking diary. I choose dark red with cream pages from their selection of colours. The layout is a day-a-page, with small time notations, and with space for notes at the bottom. There is also a small monthly calendar at the top of each page so you can plan ahead. Has both a ribbon marker and tearable corners, so you can choose you own method of marking the page.

There are loads of extra information in the diary including:3 year calendar, notable dates, planner, conversions, holiday planner, UK mileage, travel information and international information. At the back to the diary there is the usual space for accounts, addresses and general notes.

Great diary and I’m loving the cream pages. One negative is that fountain pen goes through the paper a bit.

Funky pigeon is currently doing a giveaway of a free pocket diary until 31st on the blog / twitter (same style as my A5 diary). Make sure you check it out.