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Black Paper Notebooks
Find notebooks with black pages and a range of compatible pens for black paper.

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Supernova Gel Pens (Pack of 10)$ 16.00
Take beautiful notes or illustrate illuminated scenes in the dark. These gel pens are specially formulated to work with the Dark Matter notebooks – they write in vibrant color o...
Linguistics Dark Analysis A5 Softcover Notebook$ 20.00
Immerse yourself in the world of language - Adorned with Chinese characters, Arabic script, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hebrew, Phoenician, Greek, and more, this notebook is a unique ...
Ready to Launch Dark Matter Notebook$ 30.00
Lights illuminate the Artemis 1 rocket as we prepare to set foot on the moon once more. Each cover in the Dark Matter series celebrates the beauty found in darkness and the sce...


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So obsessed with the design and quality of this notepad! I cannot wait to start using it for my weekly planning.

Even though I work in the medical field, dinosaurs will always be my secret second hyperfixation. I bring it to work with me everyday and lots of people I work with stop to look at it in its entirety and it’s very cute and wholesome. Been waiting so long for this colorway to be available in a larger size, it was finally my lucky day 🥰 extremely high quality, doesn’t taste like metal or anything. This is my 3rd bottle from here and I recommend them any and everywhere I go!

A great coffee mug

These high-quality, stem-less wine glasses can easily double as everyday glassware. I have and you probably will too. The glass looks and feels high-quality and has a nice "ring" to it just like high-end stemmed wine glasses do. Take some time to determine the paint/ink color you want based on the contents for these crystal-clear glasses. The gold color works well with milk or wine or cola-colored liquid. If you go for Coke with ice, you'll want to stay away from the black ink and lean toward the gold or white. I'm partial to the physical sciences collection so I have some of these wine glasses, some drinking glasses and slme beer glasses too across astronomy, physics, and geology. (I also love the equations mouse mat.)

Great stationary, and my pen doesn’t bleed through

Looking forward to giving this for Father’s Day
Previous gifts of drinking glasses were a BIG hit.

I love the details and it’s plenty big enough which is super convenient!

It was a birthday present for my granddaughter and she loved it! She picked it. The quality was top notch. I’m sure she will use it a long time once she graduates

I absolutely loved my order. The art makes me smile as a I plan my weekly groceries.

For academic note taking, there are many expensive options but none as pretty. Get one of these for a bit of color in the lab, along with all the benefits of a nalgene or fischer notebook.

I’m a scientist but not a botanist… but who cannot love such a brightly coloured bottle… I also purchased a tea infuser and I sip my favourite green tea all day.

This bottle made my most boring meetings exciting! Every time I look at this bottle, I find detailed that I missed before… very satisfying!

These are the most beautiful well-crafted bottles I had ever seen and owned. They are even more impressive in person. Pictures don’t do justice.

As good as they look in the pop-up ads. Love them

So much easier to enjoy my tea during busy work days. Thank you!

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