The whole catalogue is a lot to scroll if you already know who the notebook is for. This is the same catalogue sorted by the person instead, with a link straight to each design's own page, where you type the actual wording and see it engraved on the cover before you pay.
Every one is £17.99 plus £2.75 postage, engraved to order once you buy and posted within one working day.
A milestone birthday
The Chapter designs mark a birthday as a new chapter instead of a number on a card, with the age in the title and a name underneath. They run from a 16th to an 80th, taking in the ones people search for by name: 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th and 70th.
If the number matters less than the sentiment, there is The best is yet to come: the line across the cover, the age beneath it as a chapter or a volume, and a monogram at the foot. It suits the birthdays nobody wants announced in large type.
And for anyone whose friends still quote the show, The sitcom sets three lines inside an ornate frame, with the name's letters separated the way the titles do it. The frame comes off if you would rather do without it.
Turning an age that is not on that list? Open any of them and type the number you want.
A thank-you at the end of term
The teacher and mentor designs all carry a role, and on every one of them that role is a word you can change, so a deputy head, a coach or a driving instructor gets the same cover with their own title on it.
Three blunt words, the role in the biggest type on the cover: Best teacher ever, Best teaching assistant ever, Best mentor ever, Best head teacher ever and Best lecturer ever.
Or a dictionary entry, where the definition is yours to write: Teacher, defined, Teaching assistant, defined, Mentor, defined, Head teacher, defined and Lecturer, defined.
For someone who would rather say what they do than what they are: Teaching is my thing, Mentoring is my thing, Lecturing is my thing, Teach, inspire, repeat, Mentor, inspire, repeat and Lecture, inspire, repeat.
One carries engraved artwork as well as type: Too cool for school, a lightning bolt between four blunt words.
And four that take a different line altogether: Making it exciting, The book of brilliant ideas, Inspiring minds and A child's own drawing, which engraves a picture they drew exactly as they drew it.
Someone who plays
The sports notebooks are written as dictionary entries that are more affectionate than accurate. Football, Netball, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis, Swimming, Running and Dance.
Some go further and define the position instead of the sport, which is the version that tends to land: Goal Attack, Goal Shooter, Centre, Wing Attack, Wing Defence, Goal Defence, Goal Keeper, Goalkeeper, Striker, Scrum Half, Butterfly and Front Crawl.
Mum, Dad, or whoever raised you
The family designs say it two ways, and the role on every one of them is a word you can change, so a stepdad, a godmother or a Nanna gets the same cover with the right name on it.
A dictionary definition written for that person: Mum, Dad, Nana, Grandad, Son, Daughter, Sister, Brother, Auntie, Uncle, Friend, Wife and Husband.
Or the line everyone says, set properly: World's best Mum, Nan, Sister, Auntie, Dad, Grandad, Brother, Uncle, Wife, Wifey, Hubby, Husband, Son, Daughter, Cousin, Niece, Nephew, Dog mum, Dog dad, Colleague and Friend.
Or the same sentiment with more shouting: Best Mum ever, Nan, Sister, Auntie, Dad, Grandad, Brother, Uncle, Wife, Wifey, Hubby, Husband, Son, Daughter, Cousin, Niece, Nephew, Dog mum, Dog dad, Colleague and Friend.
Both spellings of aunt are there on purpose, and so are both halves of wife and wifey and of hubby and husband: which one a family uses is simply what the person is called, and this is cut into leather, so there is no reprinting it.
However many years it has been
The anniversary covers are the ones built out of a fact only the two of you own: the map of where it started, the sky above it that night, two hands with your names along the arms, a photograph and a date, the card they wrote you, or a short poem about the pair of you.
The hands come in two dated versions as well. First anniversary, two hands and One year married, two hands both set the words over the date you married, and both are for the year the paper anniversary falls in. There is a longer piece on that first year.
Whoever is starting again
The new chapter covers face forwards, not back, which is what a retirement, a leaving do or a new job actually wants.
Seven of them name the change itself. "It's Time for a New Chapter" or "a New Adventure" runs across the top, the sun comes up over the hills at the foot, and the line between the two says which change it is: the retirement chapter, bump, baby and beyond, congratulations on the new job, graduation, class of this year, the university chapter, new home, new beginnings, or whatever comes next where the change has no tidy name yet. Both lines are boxes you type in, so none of the seven is fixed to the words it opens on. The same cover without the second line, carrying the year ahead inside the sun instead, is the one to buy for a January more than an occasion.
Make it happen is the loud one: two words in script and the year ahead under a shooting star drawn across the top of the cover. The rest say the year and leave out the reason: the best is yet to come, three words to go on with, a line about getting on with it, a book for what comes next, property of and initials for the year ahead.
A place that means something
The city skylines are drawn as a band across the foot of the cover with a name above. At home there is London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester and Dublin; across Europe, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and Amsterdam; and further out, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Dubai, Sydney Harbour and Las Vegas. For a week in the mountains instead of a city, Les Arcs 1950.
If the place you want is not a city on that list, the map notebooks go further: Your place, mapped draws anywhere on earth, with its name and coordinates beneath.
For the sky above that place, the same collection draws the exact night: Your sky, charted picks any place and any date and engraves the real stars that were actually up there.
Whatever they are into
The illustrated designs run the full width of the cover with a name above them, and most of them are about a hobby, not an occasion: Camping and the Campervan, Baking, Gardening, Wildflowers, Golf, Travel, a Shooting star, a Sunrise over the hills, a Football kit laid out, and whoever does the cooking, her or him.
If the hobby is a sport, the sports covers draw the game itself, not kit on a floor, and most of them draw a whole side instead of one player: netball, football, rugby, cricket, hockey and ice hockey, basketball, rowing and padel. For the ones played in a club, off the pitch, darts and snooker. None of them carries a crest or a number, so the name above is what says which team it is.
The strips in the same collection do the same in a single quiet row, which suits a name that should stay the loudest thing on the cover: Dachshunds, French bulldogs, Hearts, Stars, Flowers and yoga in standing or floor poses.
A wedding, or an anniversary
The wedding and engagement designs answer three different questions.
Most of them are for one person in the wedding party, each set out as a dictionary entry with a definition of what that role actually involves on the day: the bride, the groom, the bridesmaid, the groomsman, the maid of honour, the best man, the mother of the bride, the mother of the groom, the father of the bride and the father of the groom. The headword is yours to change, so a matron of honour, an usher or a best woman is the same cover with a different word on it.
The rest are about the couple. Two hands draws a pair with their little fingers linked, full size, and your two names are written along the forearms in the same unbroken line as the drawing, not set underneath it. Two hands, engaged is the same drawing with ENGAGED and the date beneath it, for the year between the question and the day. Alongside them: a Wedding band of rings, cake and confetti.
Eight more thank the same people in two lines instead of defining them: the job in a display serif over "because I couldn't do this without you" in script, with a heart or a star where the full stop goes. A bridesmaid, the maid of honour, the best man, a groomsman, and both sets of parents: mother of the bride, mother of the groom, father of the bride and father of the groom. The parents' ones say "we" where the others say "I", because they come from the pair of them.
One is for the year before the day. Things to do before we say I do sets two plain lines over a third in script, and it is a book for the list: the venue, the dress, the seating plan and the eighty things nobody warns you about.
Something quieter
Your own words puts a line only the two of you will understand on the cover, in any of our faces and at whatever size suits it: a vow, a line from a song, or whatever the two of you actually say. Secret message goes further and puts it on the BACK of the book: one short line in the bottom corner, small enough that somebody has to turn the notebook over and go looking to find it at all. If the words are the hard part, A poem for them starts from a few facts about the person (their dogs, where they ski, what they are like) and gives you five short lines to edit until they sound right. And Dictionary definition sets a word, its phonetic spelling and a meaning you write, for defining a person the way a dictionary would. Eleven come with the meaning already written, for the Director of laughs, the Problem solver, the Wise one, The north star, the Certified good egg, the Ride or die, a Soul sister, a Legend, a Joy bringer, and the Dog mum and Dog dad, and every word and every line of them still yours to change.
When the words will not come
Four covers that start you off with a line and let you change it. Be Bold engraves one line, "Be Brave. Be Kind. Be Bold.", built from three words with a shuffle on each, so you can keep two and reroll the third, and their initials in the corner if you want them. Empowering quotes does it in one line about getting on with it, set large across the middle. Famous quotes puts a line worth keeping under the name of whoever wrote it (Shakespeare, Austen, Twain), and every one of them is out of copyright and checked against the work it came from. And NSFW (Not Safe For Work) is for the person who would find all three of those a bit much.
Nothing to say, just their name
The name designs carry nothing else. Name and monogram pairs initials with a full name. Property of states it more plainly. And Build your own leaves the bottom third of the cover empty for you to fill with stickers, a piece at a time.
One mark, and nothing else
The emblems put a single drawing above the name in place of a band beneath it, which suits a cover that should stay mostly empty: Around the world for a traveller, Wildflower spray, Ski goggles and Hands.
From a photograph
The photo notebooks start from a picture. Portrait and caption turns a photo into engraving-ready line art with a short caption underneath, and the preview shows you the engraved version before you commit.
Make a meme takes the same photograph and does the opposite with it. Two lines of heavy capitals, one above and one below, and the picture is the setup, not the subject: somebody's dog, somebody's colleague, somebody caught mid-sentence. The words are yours, and there is a button full of ours for when nothing comes to mind.
From something written by hand
A handwritten note is the one cover where nothing is redrawn. Photograph a recipe card in your grandmother's writing, the leaving card the office signed, or a letter from somebody who is gone, and the ink alone is lifted off the paper. The page, its creases and the light you took the picture in all disappear, and what is engraved is the handwriting itself. There is no style to choose, because the writing is already the drawing. A caption underneath is optional and most people leave it off; the note usually says everything it needs to.
For a company to hand out
The logo notebooks are the one place your own artwork goes on the cover untouched. Your company logo engraves the mark as it is drawn, with nothing added to it and no style applied over the top, and leaves a line underneath for the name of whoever the book is going to. Add each one separately and every cover carries a different name, which is what makes a box of them feel less like stationery and more like a present.
Still not it
Browse the full catalogue and personalise any design directly. Every page linked above is the same page you would land on by searching for it, not a separate gift-guide version of it.
Not sure which cover colour to pick? The cover colour changes how much of your engraving you see explains what the laser actually does to the leather, and which colours suit which designs.