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Recently I discovered Traveler’s Notebook, a customizable journal system that consists of a cover with a rubber strap and a variety of inserts you can choose. I put three in my new notebook to start with, a basic blank notebook, a kraftpaper notebook and a watercolor notebook. What I appreciate most is the notebook inserts are easy to put in or take out and that I can combine multiple journals I’d been using into one. Instead of having my notes planner, a nature journal and a nudibranch journal in three individual hardcover journals, I can now combine them. And then when I travel again one day, I can put a new one in to take notes, watercolor sketches and even put in tickets or other travel items. Or I can keep one notebook per project. The flexibility is brilliant.

I received it recently and broke in the watercolor notebook with a sketch of the nudibranchs I saw at the night low tide this week. I also tried out the Koi travel watercolor set I got before the pandemic began and hadn’t used yet.

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Kelly Brenner

Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.

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