Travel Sketch Journal (Japanese Accordion Moleskin)

$18.21

Alright hear me out.. I’ve created the best momento / travel experience / generational treat / bonding activity for big trips.

Get Japanese moleskin accordion books, a tiny watercolor set or colored pencils and your favorite gel pen (mine’s a classic G2 .05).

Every morning with your cappuccino or during a late afternoon pick-me-up at a cafe/bar, you and your significant other and your pals and whoever else you’re with draws whatever you did the day before.

The inside jokes, the ratings for each dish, the sights you saw, the people you met, the things you bought.

There is no better way to memorialize a trip even if you’re the world’s worst artist. On a grand 26-page scale, it looks so darn cool all together.

Mine will be digitized and turned into wallpaper or the like someday.

Good Ideas If I Do Say So Myself

3 months ago

Comments

Nat

@knitnatJul 14, 2026

THANK YOU! Stealing this idea for an upcoming 3 week trip with the kids. Thank you!!

Hannah Quinlan

@hannah_quinlanJul 14, 2026

I’m so excited for you! It’s the best way to fill in between time and helps you to so vividly remember the trip. Order the Japanese moleskin sooner vs. later - they sometimes get back ordered (even coming from Amazon in my case). There are “watercolor pencils” that are probably good for kids. They are similar to colored pencils, but come with water brushes that you wipe over the pencil marks. It’s easy, dries with a nice texture, and saves well. After you finish, scan them to save virtual and you can print for photo albums, use as cards, etc. while keeping the book in tact. I’m so excited for you to have it forever!!!

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