I currently have a few Moleskine notebooks, they are special and limited editions, two from Canon and one from LG. They were more than just gifts from the two major brands and I am only currently using the Canon Moleskine notebook, the other two are still wrapped up!

During a recent event in Singapore, I was introduced to Moleskine, celebrating M for Movers, of ideas and creativity, the movers life journey in a modern world today, with changes to working, travel, creativity and expression. Along with the wider world of Moleskine’s family of products, embarking on the Moleskine Creative Trail in Singapore and an introduction to urban sketching with Paul Wang.

In this article, I would be introducing you to Moleskine’s family of products for movers and creators.

Moleskine Bag Collections

First and foremost, I have never known that Moleskine has bag collections! When they introduced their Moleskine Bag Collections, I was amazed and pretty impressed by their bags collection, range and designs!

Moleskine Bag Collections

First and foremost, I have never known that Moleskine has bag collections! When they introduced their Moleskine Bag Collections, I was amazed and pretty impressed by their bags collection, range and designs!

The Metro Collection

The contemporary bags collection, clean urban design and modern technology feel. While it may not look that big in size, they can pack in technology gadgets such as a 15inch laptop along with your other creative stuff. The water-resistant nylon casing and padded pockets protect your gadgets and tools.The embossed honeycomb lining and subtle reflective details shines a light to the Mover on every part of their creative journeys. For the Movers, there is a My Moleskine Notes Pocket, for you to store your memories, ideas, thoughts, dreams, intimate moments during your Movers creative journey.

Price:

Metro backpack: SGD$220

Metro slim backpack: SGD$190

Metro vertical device bag: SGD$170

Moleskine Classic Bag Collection

This series was first designed by Giulio Iacchetti in 2011, for the minimalist Mover, aesthetic and beautiful. There is the Classic Leather Collection, for Movers who love both leather material and design with great functionality and ergonomics. For this bag collection, the corners are rounded, just like the classic legendary Moleskine notebook and each bag carries the time honoured “in case of loss” notice in the interior. More than just a classic bag for the Movers to store their creative tools while traveling, they are also the secret places to keep your memories, ideas, thoughts, dreams, intimate moments during your Movers creative journey.

Price:

Classic leather backpack: SGD$320

Classic leather device bag: SGD$250

Classic leather pro backpack: SGD$390

Moleskine Go Shopper Collection (newly launched in October 2019)

The artist/doodle/sketcher in you, would love this self-customisable Moleskine Go Shopper. With this bag, you can draw, doodle and write on its surface, telling your stories, thoughts, ideas and moments through your artworks, whereby you can stamp your artistic mark on this special bag.

Price:

SGD$41

Moleskine Art Collection

The world of notebook journaling has now expanded with the watercolour notebook, along with the watercolour block and pencils.

Watercolour Notebook

This watercolour notebook is made using cold-pressed cotton-blend paper and they can handle plenty of water on both sides of the paper. Just like the classic Moleskine notebook design, rounded corners, a ribbon bookmark and matching elastic closure, you can now have the creative freedom to write, sketch, draw, colour each and every page with your words, moments, thoughts, drawings, sketches and paintings, whenever you are on the move, at a location creating artworks or when you have an inspiration or idea coming into you.

Watercolour Block

The Watercolour Block is the ultimate companion for the creative artist as you strive to capture the inspiration, the moment, whether you are indoors or outdoors on the move. They features a strong backing support and high quality detachable pages that allows you to unleash your creativity and talents while on the move.

Price:

Large: SGD$40

XL: SGD$61

23×31: SGD$61

Watercolour Pencils

Bring beautiful colours into your inspiring works with Moleskine Watercolour pencils, through your drawing, sketching and colouring. Featuring 12 Moleskine Watercolour pencils a set, it’s time to unleash the creative artist in you! Add some water to create light washes and moments as you draw, design, sketch and colour.

Price:

City Travel Palette SGD$60

Moleskine Limited Edition Collections (Launching Soon)

Most of us would know Moleskine for their classic notebooks and if you are a fan of James Bond 007 or Star Wars, you have to take a look at them!

007 Limited Edition Notebook Collection

There is something special inside 007 limited edition notebook, there are two limited edition notebooks. Each chapter in the story celebrates James Bond’s resourceful spirit and skilful mastery of knowledge. Each notebook also comes with a set of 25 tickets inspired by over 50 years of Bond films.

Price:

SGD$60

Star Wars Notebook and Planner Collection

If you are a Star Wars fan, this collection would definitely interest you! This Star Wars Notebook and Planner Collection pays tribute to Star Wars. Which side are you on, the Jedi or the Dark Side?

Each notebook/planner inside this collection includes the distinctive Moleskine design features, such as the colour-coordinated elastic closure, expandable back pocket for your notes and thoughts, a matching bookmark ribbon and filled with graphics on the front and back endpapers, a themed paperbound B-Side and special sticker inserts.

May the Force be with You, creative, inspirational, artistic and talented Movers of Moleskine!

Price:

Notebook: SGD$60

Planner:

Pocket size: SGD$37

Large size: SGD$45

For more information on Moleskine products and where you can purchase them, visit Moleskine.com

Moleskine Creative Trail in Singapore

Coming soon, keep a lookout for the second part of this article, learning how to draw and sketch with Moleskine Watercolour Notebook and Watercolour Pencils, my personal experiences, stories from Moleskine Creative Trail in Singapore, plans and inspiration to further expand my personal movement of photography, writing, prints, notebook journaling with Moleskine for my personal photography projects (documentary, travel)

Would the M for Movers by Moleskine, be the final piece of the puzzle of my photography,  notebook journaling along with my photography prints, sketching, drawing and painting?

* Thank you Moleskine and Burson Cohn & Wolfe for the invitation *

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Inspired by creative illustrators, artists and travel writers, I am slowly learning and evolving my travelers notebook, travel writing and journaling, accompanied by the classy and beautiful leathercraft works. Through my Instagram journey and sharing, you would be able to observe the changes and growth in this creative segment since I started this personal travel writing and journaling journey.

For somebody like me who doesn’t come across as a creative talent in drawing and illustration, I am slowly opening up and releasing my inner creative drawing and travel writing on the blank notebook papers inside my travelers notebook. While at times, I can’t seem to draw and sketch as beautifully like an artist, I shall do it my own style and design.

After discovering washi tapes and ink stamps, I slowly started to learn more ways to decorate and describe my travel and photography adventures along with them. An amazing process and journey, not rushing into it, searching and choosing washi tapes and ink stamps in the context of travel and photography.

Returning back to the old school system seems like a blessing and a gateway to appreciating the beautiful world out there without the madness, pressure and  running the rat race, fueled by internet, social media, greed, fame and narcissism. The relentless and brutal world out there took our life and soul away for money and fame. This is the time, to take stock and make changes.

Writing, traveling, journaling, photography, arts and craft, they are giving me a new hope, a new direction and personal goals to work on. All these would fuel my inner mind, heart and soul, unleashing the creative person inside me that I never knew that I have, all thanks to this book written by Fernando Gros, titled “No Missing Tools”, a book that I am very thankful for and here’s my book review for the book! Along with other books, from travel to minimalism, and ikigai – finding my purpose in life, I am able to appreciate more things in life.

Follow me on my Instagram and Facebook Page on my travelers notebook, journaling, travel writing and leathercraft collection journey. I hope to share more creative illustration, travel adventure stories and enriching experiences that would blow you off and away into your travel wanderlust. Over time, I hope to add more photos into my Flickr photo album from my adventures in travel writing, journaling with travelers notebook and leathercraft workds.

A lot of work in progress, it will be a never ending journey, as I continue to trek forward and upward, expanding my travel writing and travel photography. I am seeking and generating more different and unique experiences with my travel writing and travel photography, a travel wanderlust I am, with my own travel stories book to be published in the near future.

Come walk with me, through my lens and  travel stories, let me bring you on a travel wanderlust adventure in many beautiful places far far away, along with my travelers notebook, journaling, travel writing and leathercraft.

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However, I confessed that when I first stepped into Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park in the afternoon after our half day trip to Doi Suthep National Park in the morning, I was in awe of this lovely, quiet and tranquil location. This place is environmentally friendly, superb hospitality, a cosy café known as Adobe Cafe, nice souvenirs, craft works and art works gift shop.

Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park is an easy destination to navigate, you can walk on your own through the eight stations and explore it yourself, there are maps, signages and boards explaining the processes at each station. Alternatively, you can sign up for the guided tour. We were hosted by Ms. Tun Kanokrat, Managing Director of Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park, she brought us on a guided tour, demonstrating and explaining to us the processes at each different stages of producing the poopoo paper.

History of Paper Garden– Before you start, visit this segment at the park and learn about the history of paper, the origin and development over the centuries

Poo Fiber Shed– Next up, visit the Poo Poo Shed, touch and smell the dried poo!  Don’t worry, it’s not smelly!

Cleaning & Boiling– The dried poo fiber is put through the process of cleaning and boiling, inside the big hot wok over the charcoal fire.

Mixing & Colouring– After cleaning and boiling, they are headed to the mixing and colouring shed,  transforming into colourful pulp poo balls.

Papermaking– This is probably going to be one of the most fun part getting hands on with the pulp poo balls, spread the dried pulp poo balls onto the mesh wooden tray with water, spread them out evenly.

Sheet Screening– Bring the mesh wooden tray of the pulp poo poo fiber into the backyard for drying. While it might take some time to see your handicraft work turning into recycled paper, you can be proud of your achievement!

Finished Product– At this shed, you can view and touch the various freshly made sheets of POOPOOPAPER, this is probably the next fun segment for you, time to make your own/decorate your own unique POOPOOPAPER product, let your creativity artwork flow! There are also ready made POOPOOPAPER products for you to buy back home as gifts for your family, relatives and friends!

Team #EpiphanyGoChiangMai did a great job there, getting the videos and interviews shot by Valentino with travel hosts Tiffany and Peps, hosting, introducing and interviewing Ms Kanokrat. As for myself, I was busy taking behind the scenes photos and you can view them inside this flickr album! As the quiet Chiang Mai evening sets in, we bade farewell to this wonderful destination and returned back to our Baisiri Maya hotel in Chiang Mai.

However, Team #EpiphanyGoChiangMai, really liked this place so much that we squeezed out a few hours out from our schedule on Day 4 to visit them again after our maiden visit on Day 3 in Chiang Mai.

I got most of my photos on Day 3 of our visit and on Day 4, I continued taking photos of the park that I wasn’t able to finish taking the day before. On Day 4, I was able to get my hands on, making my own TGH Photography bookmark that I can bring home to Singapore. My own DIY bookmark from Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park provided me with wonderful memories and the friendly chats with the owners of Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park.

This is a must visit destination when you visit Chiang Mai, Thailand! Lovely, quiet and tranquil location, ideal for families with children to learn more about eco-friendly movement, recycling and saving the environment, with great hands on experience to build and decorate your own notebooks, bookmarks etc etc … Do check out Tiffany’s article post on her visit to Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park too! If you are a teacher planning a school trip to Chiang Mai, this is highly recommended destination to bring your students, there’s so much to learn about recycling, eco-friendly livng, sustainability, moreover, the students can have an awesome hands on experience with the recycled paper products!

I would like to thank Ms. Kanokrat and her team for her warmest hospitality when they hosted us, Team #EpiphanyGoChiangMai at the Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park. Personally, I had an awesome time there, learning a lot more about eco-friendly activities, recycling, saving the environment, getting hands on with paperwork and handicraft, making my own unique poopoo paper bookmark! I am pretty sure the rest of Team #EpiphanyGoChiangMai agree with me too! More photographs of our visit to Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park can be viewed here in this Flickr album!

Visitor Information on Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park

Address: 87 Moo. 10, T. Maeram, Amphur Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, 50180 THAILAND

Telephone: +66(0)53-299565

Email: info@poopoopaperpark.com

Opening Hours: 9:00am to 5:30pm

Cost of entry: 100 Baht

Website: http://www.poopoopaperpark.com/en/

Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/7b24kqHCUxk

*Thai language Directions for taxi, tuk-tuk, red bus, etc. :

อยู่ห่างจากตัวเมืองเชียงใหม่เพียง10 กิโลเมตร(15 นาที) โดยเดินทางสู่เส้นแม่ริมและใช้เวลาเพียง2 นาทีจากทางแยกแม่ริม-สะเมิงเลียบคลองมาทางคุ้มเสือและเลยไปอีกเพียง100 เมตร

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