I have conflicting obsessions. I like to buy new things, but I don’t like things to be *new*. I greedily stockpile new pencils, but I use old ones that are knobbly and chewed. I buy new notebooks, but I write and draw on scraps. 

Lately I’ve been buying journals and customising them so they feel like “mine”. Then I can scribble to my heart’s content. These are blank Moleskine journals, with animal drawings on the cover in ink, graphite and white pencil.