Stocking Stuffers / Fillers for Older Kids

December 2, 2014

To help make your Christmas shopping easier we thought we’d put our best-selling notebooks for older Kids all in one place (similar blog post for younger children coming soon), so here goes…

At number 1 it’s Geek Glasses and Mustaches (also available with the spelling Moustaches). The nine to twelve year-olds just can’t get enough of nerd glasses and silly mustaches at the moment.

small geek journal notebook for kids with funny spy glasses and mustaches

Number 2 is one of our old and trusted favorites, the Top Secret notebook (with Keep Out! written on the back). With Its pirate style cover it's regularly at or near the top of our best-selling list.

kids secret notebook. A writing small journal for kids in a pirate style

Number 3, we’re very pleased to say, is our Pony notebook. It took a while to find its way on to the Amazon front pages, but since September of this year it’s been rapidly moving up the smART bookx sales ranking. (Wild ponies on the back cover too.)

writing small journal pony notebook with wild ponies on the cover, on amazon

Number 4 is Love Football Notebook. A soccer gift really, so probably more a stocking filler for the Brits than the US of A. But the beautiful game is played in The States too, so it’s always listed on Amazon.com just in case it’s wanted.

small journal notebook for kids who love football or soccer

Number 5 is our UBER CUTE Meerkat notebook. There’s one on the back cover too.

meerkat notebook for meerkat presents in stockings. It's a small journal notebook with an index

Finally at number 6 is the Supercool Penguin notebook. Possibly more one for the younger kids, but if you still sometimes hear “Mom, can I play on Club Penguin” then it would tick a box on your gift list.

cool penguin notebook or small writing journal for children's stocking filler

Good luck with the Christmas shopping,

The smART bookx team :>

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A Small Gift for Hannukah or Bar Mitzvahs

December 2, 2014

Looking for Jewish Gifts / Presents? Our Jewish Temple Menorah notebook could be just the ticket ...

small jewish notebook or writing small journal suitable for a small Hannukah or Bar Mitzvah gift

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Small Wine Journals for Different Palates

November 28, 2014

Below are some of the latest additions to our range of notebooks … two small wine journals entitled 'Wine Notes' and 'Wine Notes & Ramblings'. The two cover designs are very different. One is a close up of a wine bottle complete with the classic anecdote “wine improves with age … the older I get, the better I like it!” and the other is a more contemporary design full of wine related words.

wine notes notebook with wine bottle on the cover

Wine notes and ramblings notebook with lots of wine-related words and phrases in the cover design

Both have the same interior layout, which allows for more space for personal notes than do mos...

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Why Trust Us?

November 6, 2014

One of the difficulties of shopping online is that you can’t see and touch the product. One solution that we all use to solve it is to stick to brands that we’ve heard of and trust. smART bookx has only be around for a year and it’s unlikely that you have heard of us yet, so why should you trust us? After all, there are a few cowboys out there selling poor quality stationery at over inflated prices (think paper so thin you can see through it). We are confident of the high quality of o...
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New Gift Notebooks for Sisters & Grandmas

November 4, 2014

Our ‘Best in the World’ series of notebooks is growing! The 'Best Mom in the World' and 'Best Dad in the World' notebooks proved so popular this year that we thought we’d add sisters and grandmas to the list in time for Christmas. Take a look…

best sister gifts: a writing small journal notebook with the statement

best grandma in the world gifts. A writing small journal notebook for grandmothers

Strangely, the phrase “Sister Gifts” gets searched in Google ~3600 times a month whereas “Brother Gifts” only gets ~390 searches. That’s a huge difference. There must be pretty much equal numbers of brothers and sisters out there?? ...

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Thanks to the Gentleman who left FIVE Outstanding Reviews

November 3, 2014

A thank you is better late than never, so many thanks to the gentleman who left us five outstanding reviews in August. Customer feedback really helps us to improve at what we do.

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Mad About Tartan ... Notebooks

November 2, 2014

Boy are we in love with Scottish tartan. Our traditional red Stewart Plaid design has consistently been one of our most popular notebooks (left below) and one of our most popular kids stationery items is a really cute fairy in a tartan dress.

Scottish tartan notebook. A writing small journal notebook with an index and a red tartan cover

Blue Scottish tartan notebook, good for people who like scottish culture

purple scottish tartan notebook, a writing small journal notebook good for scottish cultural presents

With this in mind we thought it was time that we offered a little more Scottish choice, so we have come up with two fab new tartan designs in the run up to the Christmas gift shopping season.

Purple Tartan Notebook

Purple is far and away the most popul...

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What have Halloween and Panda Bears got in Common?

October 7, 2014

Well not a lot really, except that we designed a really cute panda bear gift notebook for kids in September and we were so pleased with it that we thought a similar notebook as a Halloween Gift Idea for Kids would work too. A kind of spin off packed full of witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls. They’re both search-and-find style designs so would make great gifts for younger children.

cute writing small journal notebook for panda gifts and presents for kids

small journal notebook for kids on halloween with witch wizard ghost and ghoul on the cover

The Halloween one (USA link) has witches, wizards, bats, cats, moons, stars, owls, pumpkins and footprints. ...

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Why are Our Journals so Cheap? / A Unique Business Model - Here’s How it Works

October 5, 2014

Have you ever heard of Zazzle, Café Press or Spreadshirt? They’re websites where you’ll get a choice of 1000s of notebook designs, but average prices, including shipping, will be $18+. Wow, that’s not cheap! It's a lot for something that 9 times out of 10 is ultimately a disposable item (most of us don’t keep notebooks more than a couple of years). Our notebooks are high quality but cost under $10 plus Amazon Shipping.

The business models of Zazzle and the likes are actually similar ...

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