The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

  Hello! Moved into a new, very roomy pencil bag tonight 😊 While writing is still a bit of a struggle since my stroke, I’ve started writing a little everyday and I’m hoping my hand gets better soon and I can finally get back to writing, journaling and annotating my books. Here’s a look my precious pens 🥰 The tiny pouches are from Choti Si Asha The new one is from an IG store called Veora. It was kindly sent as a freebie by the seller with some booksleeves I ordered (will share those soon). 

 Hello Loves ☺️ I spent my afternoon happily setting up my pencil pouch for the year. This is my big sorta catch all pouch. I also have a slimmer pouch to hold my everyday essentials. Here’s the process and final look.  Here she is all full and set up. I bought this case from Amazon last year but didn’t use it. Then as 2025 rolled up I wanted a big case to hold my pens and I got this out and gave it a whirl.  Added a bag charm too.  Miffy in bed 💜 Here is the slim pouch holding all my everyday pens.  Love how both of them go together 💜🤍💜  Starting off. Charm added. This one is from The Calm Robin.  The mess before. We begin. A ruler and glue and eraser.  Filled to the brim. Very happy with how I’ve organised my stuff. 

 Hello Loves!  A new YouTube video is up on my Channel. All about some new stationery acquisitions. Go see. 

 Hello Loves 🌝  Here are some recent stationery loves of mine:  A pouch to hold an edit of my pens and some supplies.  This one is from The Black Canvas and I love it so much.  A bunch of Muji Pens and Sarasa Snoopy pens. Forever faves both of these.  I love Kaweco Ink Pens.  Small, compact and so easy on the hands.   A thing of beauty.  Contents of my sticker and stationery supply box. This is a small edit I made in the beginning of the year and have added to it as I’ve used up my supplies.  The box my 2024 Ink Bucket planner came in. I used it as a storage box for some planner bits. 

 Today was a mix of sleep, slowing down, glorious sunset and some quality time with my planners and journals.  A day for relative quiet and some respite from a hard week.  Grateful for the little things and little joys. Like having my window open again after being jammed shut for weeks. Or having running water after two whole weeks.  Each day I find myself falling a little out of love with city living and the desire to run away to the hills is very high.  Maybe some day, if I am lucky enough, I'll have a little refuge in the hills, away from the noise and dust and chaos of the city.  Don't get me wrong. I love Mumbai with all my heart. But sometimes every thing about my home seems a little too much. 

 Hello, hello! How is this the first day of April already?! Welcoming this new month with some positive manifestations for me and you and the whole world! That we all may have some happiness and health and peace!  Hello April! Be good! Be Kind! Be Fun! Sharing some cute gel pens that arrived in the mail from my most recent order from Scooboo !  These are three sets of gel pens from Color Lab. They are so cute and smooth! Let's take a closer look at each of these, shall we?  This set has shades of pink and purple and a black pen (that's what the colour of the refill of the white pen is). These are super vibrant and very smooth.  These are called fibre gel pens and are a bit wetter but still as vibrant as the ones above. Love the mix of greens and orange and brown. This set is called 'Autumn', I think.  This is a summery set of greens, reds and blues. Very vivid and very smooth!  These pens are made by a brand called Baoke and th...

 Hey guys! Uni-ball One Gel pens have taken the planner and stationery world by storm! These are multi-surface, richly pigmented pens and when we found them on Amazon , we decided to buy a set for ourselves! I was seriously seeing them alllll over IG and my planner and stationery loving needed these in my life.  Here are some writing samples and our first impressions!  These pens are available in a pack of 8. The colours are similar to other Uniball gel ink offerings and are colours we've had before.  Here are the writing samples. The ink is pigmented and the pens are really smooth. These are all 0.38 mm in thickness. These are, basically, fine nibs.  The colours are a good mix of basic sober, everyday writing ones and some fun colours like pink, aqua and orange.  These pens write easily on vellum paper and other semi-glossy and transparent papers, which make them very good for journaling.  I have been using these for a week and I a...